Summary of Lymphoid Infiltration Assessment Of the Tumor Margins in H&e Slides, by Zhuxian Guo et al.
Lymphoid Infiltration Assessment of the Tumor Margins in H&E Slides
by Zhuxian Guo, Amine Marzouki, Jean-François Emile, Henning Müller, Camille Kurtz, Nicolas Loménie
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to detecting lymphoid infiltration at tumor margins is proposed in this paper, which could guide immunotherapy decisions. The current method relies heavily on immunohistochemistry (IHC), but it has limitations in tumor margin delineation and is affected by tissue preservation conditions. In contrast, the authors suggest using Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining-based approach, backed by an advanced lymphocyte segmentation model trained on a public dataset for detecting CD3+ and CD20+ lymphocytes. The study demonstrates that this H&E-based method can achieve comparable results to traditional IHC in many cases. The validity of the approach is further explored through a Turing test, involving blinded assessments by a pathologist of anonymized curves from H&E and IHC slides. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a new way to find lymphoid cells at tumor edges. Right now, doctors use immunohistochemistry (IHC) to do this, but it has some limitations. The authors suggest using a different method that uses Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining instead. This new approach is backed by a special computer model that can find CD3+ and CD20+ lymphocytes. The study shows that this new way of doing things works just as well as IHC in many cases. The authors also did a test to make sure their method was good, which involved having a doctor look at some slides without knowing how they were made. |
