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Biomedical image analysis competitions: The state of current participation practice

Dec 16, 2022
Matthias Eisenmann, Annika Reinke, Vivienn Weru, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Fabian Isensee, Tim J. Adler, Patrick Godau, Veronika Cheplygina, Michal Kozubek, Sharib Ali, Anubha Gupta, Jan Kybic, Alison Noble, Carlos Ortiz de Solórzano, Samiksha Pachade, Caroline Petitjean, Daniel Sage, Donglai Wei, Elizabeth Wilden, Deepak Alapatt, Vincent Andrearczyk, Ujjwal Baid, Spyridon Bakas, Niranjan Balu, Sophia Bano, Vivek Singh Bawa, Jorge Bernal, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Alessandro Casella, Jinwook Choi, Olivier Commowick, Marie Daum, Adrien Depeursinge, Reuben Dorent, Jan Egger, Hannah Eichhorn, Sandy Engelhardt, Melanie Ganz, Gabriel Girard, Lasse Hansen, Mattias Heinrich, Nicholas Heller, Alessa Hering, Arnaud Huaulmé, Hyunjeong Kim, Bennett Landman, Hongwei Bran Li, Jianning Li, Jun Ma, Anne Martel, Carlos Martín-Isla, Bjoern Menze, Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Valentin Oreiller, Nicolas Padoy, Sarthak Pati, Kelly Payette, Carole Sudre, Kimberlin van Wijnen, Armine Vardazaryan, Tom Vercauteren, Martin Wagner, Chuanbo Wang, Moi Hoon Yap, Zeyun Yu, Chun Yuan, Maximilian Zenk, Aneeq Zia, David Zimmerer, Rina Bao, Chanyeol Choi, Andrew Cohen, Oleh Dzyubachyk, Adrian Galdran, Tianyuan Gan, Tianqi Guo, Pradyumna Gupta, Mahmood Haithami, Edward Ho, Ikbeom Jang, Zhili Li, Zhengbo Luo, Filip Lux, Sokratis Makrogiannis, Dominik Müller, Young-tack Oh, Subeen Pang, Constantin Pape, Gorkem Polat, Charlotte Rosalie Reed, Kanghyun Ryu, Tim Scherr, Vajira Thambawita, Haoyu Wang, Xinliang Wang, Kele Xu, Hung Yeh, Doyeob Yeo, Yixuan Yuan, Yan Zeng, Xin Zhao, Julian Abbing, Jannes Adam, Nagesh Adluru, Niklas Agethen, Salman Ahmed, Yasmina Al Khalil, Mireia Alenyà, Esa Alhoniemi, Chengyang An, Talha Anwar, Tewodros Weldebirhan Arega, Netanell Avisdris, Dogu Baran Aydogan, Yingbin Bai, Maria Baldeon Calisto, Berke Doga Basaran, Marcel Beetz, Cheng Bian, Hao Bian, Kevin Blansit, Louise Bloch, Robert Bohnsack, Sara Bosticardo, Jack Breen, Mikael Brudfors, Raphael Brüngel, Mariano Cabezas, Alberto Cacciola, Zhiwei Chen, Yucong Chen, Daniel Tianming Chen, Minjeong Cho, Min-Kook Choi, Chuantao Xie Chuantao Xie, Dana Cobzas, Julien Cohen-Adad, Jorge Corral Acero, Sujit Kumar Das, Marcela de Oliveira, Hanqiu Deng, Guiming Dong, Lars Doorenbos, Cory Efird, Di Fan, Mehdi Fatan Serj, Alexandre Fenneteau, Lucas Fidon, Patryk Filipiak, René Finzel, Nuno R. Freitas, Christoph M. Friedrich, Mitchell Fulton, Finn Gaida, Francesco Galati, Christoforos Galazis, Chang Hee Gan, Zheyao Gao, Shengbo Gao, Matej Gazda, Beerend Gerats, Neil Getty, Adam Gibicar, Ryan Gifford, Sajan Gohil, Maria Grammatikopoulou, Daniel Grzech, Orhun Güley, Timo Günnemann, Chunxu Guo, Sylvain Guy, Heonjin Ha, Luyi Han, Il Song Han, Ali Hatamizadeh, Tian He, Jimin Heo, Sebastian Hitziger, SeulGi Hong, SeungBum Hong, Rian Huang, Ziyan Huang, Markus Huellebrand, Stephan Huschauer, Mustaffa Hussain, Tomoo Inubushi, Ece Isik Polat, Mojtaba Jafaritadi, SeongHun Jeong, Bailiang Jian, Yuanhong Jiang, Zhifan Jiang, Yueming Jin, Smriti Joshi, Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi, Reda Abdellah Kamraoui, Inha Kang, Junghwa Kang, Davood Karimi, April Khademi, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Suleiman A. Khan, Rishab Khantwal, Kwang-Ju Kim, Timothy Kline, Satoshi Kondo, Elina Kontio, Adrian Krenzer, Artem Kroviakov, Hugo Kuijf, Satyadwyoom Kumar, Francesco La Rosa, Abhi Lad, Doohee Lee, Minho Lee, Chiara Lena, Hao Li, Ling Li, Xingyu Li, Fuyuan Liao, KuanLun Liao, Arlindo Limede Oliveira, Chaonan Lin, Shan Lin, Akis Linardos, Marius George Linguraru, Han Liu, Tao Liu, Di Liu, Yanling Liu, João Lourenço-Silva, Jingpei Lu, Jiangshan Lu, Imanol Luengo, Christina B. Lund, Huan Minh Luu, Yi Lv, Yi Lv, Uzay Macar, Leon Maechler, Sina Mansour L., Kenji Marshall, Moona Mazher, Richard McKinley, Alfonso Medela, Felix Meissen, Mingyuan Meng, Dylan Miller, Seyed Hossein Mirjahanmardi, Arnab Mishra, Samir Mitha, Hassan Mohy-ud-Din, Tony Chi Wing Mok, Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan, Enamundram Naga Karthik, Sahil Nalawade, Jakub Nalepa, Mohamed Naser, Ramin Nateghi, Hammad Naveed, Quang-Minh Nguyen, Cuong Nguyen Quoc, Brennan Nichyporuk, Bruno Oliveira, David Owen, Jimut Bahan Pal, Junwen Pan, Wentao Pan, Winnie Pang, Bogyu Park, Vivek Pawar, Kamlesh Pawar, Michael Peven, Lena Philipp, Tomasz Pieciak, Szymon Plotka, Marcel Plutat, Fattaneh Pourakpour, Domen Preložnik, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Abdul Qayyum, Sandro Queirós, Arman Rahmim, Salar Razavi, Jintao Ren, Mina Rezaei, Jonathan Adam Rico, ZunHyan Rieu, Markus Rink, Johannes Roth, Yusely Ruiz-Gonzalez, Numan Saeed, Anindo Saha, Mostafa Salem, Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla, Kurt Schilling, Wei Shao, Zhiqiang Shen, Ruize Shi, Pengcheng Shi, Daniel Sobotka, Théodore Soulier, Bella Specktor Fadida, Danail Stoyanov, Timothy Sum Hon Mun, Xiaowu Sun, Rong Tao, Franz Thaler, Antoine Théberge, Felix Thielke, Helena Torres, Kareem A. Wahid, Jiacheng Wang, YiFei Wang, Wei Wang, Xiong Wang, Jianhui Wen, Ning Wen, Marek Wodzinski, Ye Wu, Fangfang Xia, Tianqi Xiang, Chen Xiaofei, Lizhan Xu, Tingting Xue, Yuxuan Yang, Lin Yang, Kai Yao, Huifeng Yao, Amirsaeed Yazdani, Michael Yip, Hwanseung Yoo, Fereshteh Yousefirizi, Shunkai Yu, Lei Yu, Jonathan Zamora, Ramy Ashraf Zeineldin, Dewen Zeng, Jianpeng Zhang, Bokai Zhang, Jiapeng Zhang, Fan Zhang, Huahong Zhang, Zhongchen Zhao, Zixuan Zhao, Jiachen Zhao, Can Zhao, Qingshuo Zheng, Yuheng Zhi, Ziqi Zhou, Baosheng Zou, Klaus Maier-Hein, Paul F. Jäger, Annette Kopp-Schneider, Lena Maier-Hein

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

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Mitosis domain generalization in histopathology images -- The MIDOG challenge

Apr 06, 2022
Marc Aubreville, Nikolas Stathonikos, Christof A. Bertram, Robert Klopleisch, Natalie ter Hoeve, Francesco Ciompi, Frauke Wilm, Christian Marzahl, Taryn A. Donovan, Andreas Maier, Jack Breen, Nishant Ravikumar, Youjin Chung, Jinah Park, Ramin Nateghi, Fattaneh Pourakpour, Rutger H. J. Fick, Saima Ben Hadj, Mostafa Jahanifar, Nasir Rajpoot, Jakob Dexl, Thomas Wittenberg, Satoshi Kondo, Maxime W. Lafarge, Viktor H. Koelzer, Jingtang Liang, Yubo Wang, Xi Long, Jingxin Liu, Salar Razavi, April Khademi, Sen Yang, Xiyue Wang, Mitko Veta, Katharina Breininger

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The density of mitotic figures within tumor tissue is known to be highly correlated with tumor proliferation and thus is an important marker in tumor grading. Recognition of mitotic figures by pathologists is known to be subject to a strong inter-rater bias, which limits the prognostic value. State-of-the-art deep learning methods can support the expert in this assessment but are known to strongly deteriorate when applied in a different clinical environment than was used for training. One decisive component in the underlying domain shift has been identified as the variability caused by using different whole slide scanners. The goal of the MICCAI MIDOG 2021 challenge has been to propose and evaluate methods that counter this domain shift and derive scanner-agnostic mitosis detection algorithms. The challenge used a training set of 200 cases, split across four scanning systems. As a test set, an additional 100 cases split across four scanning systems, including two previously unseen scanners, were given. The best approaches performed on an expert level, with the winning algorithm yielding an F_1 score of 0.748 (CI95: 0.704-0.781). In this paper, we evaluate and compare the approaches that were submitted to the challenge and identify methodological factors contributing to better performance.

* 19 pages, 9 figures, summary paper of the 2021 MICCAI MIDOG challenge 
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Perineural Invasion Detection in Multiple Organ Cancer Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Oct 23, 2021
Ramin Nateghi, Fattaneh Pourakpour

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Perineural invasion (PNI) by malignant tumor cells has been reported as an independent indicator of poor prognosis in various cancers. Assessment of PNI in small nerves on glass slides is a labor-intensive task. In this study, we propose an algorithm to detect the perineural invasions in colon, prostate, and pancreas cancers based on a convolutional neural network (CNN).

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Two-step Domain Adaptation for Mitosis Cell Detection in Histopathology Images

Aug 31, 2021
Ramin Nateghi, Fattaneh Pourakpour

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We propose a two-step domain shift-invariant mitosis cell detection method based on Faster RCNN and a convolutional neural network (CNN). We generate various domain-shifted versions of existing histopathology images using a stain augmentation technique, enabling our method to effectively learn various stain domains and achieve better generalization. The performance of our method is evaluated on the preliminary test data set of the MIDOG-2021 challenge. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed mitosis detection method can achieve promising performance for domain-shifted histopathology images.

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