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Lumen-Nuclei Ensemble Machine Learning System for Diagnosing Prostate Cancer in Histopathology Images

Dheeb Albashish, Shahnorbanun Sahran, Azizi Abdullah, Nordashima Abd Shukor and Suria Hayati Md Pauzi

Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 25, Issue S, June 2017

Keywords: Ensemble machine learning, Gleason grading system, Lumen, Nuclei, Prostate cancer histological image, Tissue components

Published on: 12 Mac 2018

The Gleason grading system assists in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer. Cancers with a higher score are more aggressive and have a worse prognosis. The pathologists observe the tissue components (e.g. lumen, nuclei) of the histopathological image to grade it. The differentiation between Grade 3 and Grade 4 is the most challenging, and receives the most consideration from scholars. However, since the grading is subjective and time-consuming, a reliable computer-aided prostate cancer diagnosing techniques are in high demand. This study proposed an ensemble computer-added system (CAD) consisting of two single classifiers: a) a specialist, trained specifically for texture features of the lumen and the other for nuclei tissue component; b) a fusion method to aggregate the decision of the single classifiers. Experimental results show promising results that the proposed ensemble system (area under the ROC curve (Az) of 88.9% for Grade 3 versus Grad 4 classification task) impressively outperforms the single classifier of nuclei (Az=87.7) and lumen (Az=86.6).

ISSN 1511-3701

e-ISSN 2231-8542

Article ID

JST-S0374-2017

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