Analysis on the characterization of multiphoton microscopy images for malignant neoplastic colon lesion detection under deep learning methods
Author/s
Terradillos, Elena; Saratxaga, CristinaL; Mattana, Sara; Cicchi, Riccardo; Pavone, FrancescoS; [et al.]Date
2021Keywords
Colorectal polyps
Convolutional neural network
Dataset
Multiphoton microscopy
Optical biopsy
Abstract
Colorectal cancer has a high incidence rate worldwide, with over 1.8 million new cases and 880,792 deaths in 2018. Fortunately, its early detection significantly increases the survival rate, reaching a cure rate of 90% when diagnosed at a localized stage. Colonoscopy is the gold standard technique for detection and removal of colorectal lesions with potential to evolve into cancer. When polyps are found in a patient, the current procedure is their complete removal. However, in this process, gastroenterologists cannot assure complete resection and clean margins which are given by the histopathology analysis of the removed tissue, which is performed at laboratory. Aims: In this paper, we demonstrate the capabilities of multiphoton microscopy (MPM) technology to provide imaging biomarkers that can be extracted by deep learning techniques to identify malignant neoplastic colon lesions and distinguish them from healthy, hyperplastic, or benign neoplastic tissue, without the need for histopa ...
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