OMG-Net: A Deep Learning Framework Deploying Segment Anything to Detect Pan-Cancer Mitotic Figures from Haematoxylin and Eosin-Stained Slides
<|reference_start|>OMG-Net: A Deep Learning Framework Deploying Segment Anything to Detect Pan-Cancer Mitotic Figures from Haematoxylin and Eosin-Stained Slides: Mitotic activity is an important feature for grading several cancer types. Counting mitotic figures (MFs) is a time-consuming, laborious task prone to inter-observer variation. Inaccurate recognition of MFs can lead to incorrect grading and hence potential suboptimal treatment. In this study, we propose an artificial intelligence (AI)-aided approach to detect MFs in digitised haematoxylin and eosin-stained whole slide images (WSIs). Advances in this area are hampered by the limited number and types of cancer datasets of MFs. Here we establish the largest pan-cancer dataset of mitotic figures by combining an in-house dataset of soft tissue tumours (STMF) with five open-source mitotic datasets comprising multiple human cancers and canine specimens (ICPR, TUPAC, CCMCT, CMC and MIDOG++). This new dataset identifies 74,620 MFs and 105,538 mitotic-like figures. We then employed a two-stage framework (the Optimised Mitoses Generator Network (OMG-Net) to classify MFs. The framework first deploys the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to automate the contouring of MFs and surrounding objects. An adapted ResNet18 is subsequently trained to classify MFs. OMG-Net reaches an F1-score of 0.84 on pan-cancer MF detection (breast carcinoma, neuroendocrine tumour and melanoma), largely outperforming the previous state-of-the-art MIDOG++ benchmark model on its hold-out testing set (e.g. +16% F1-score on breast cancer detection, p<0.001) thereby providing superior accuracy in detecting MFs on various types of tumours obtained with different scanners.<|reference_end|>
@article{shen2024omg-net:,
    title={OMG-Net: A Deep Learning Framework Deploying Segment Anything to Detect
  Pan-Cancer Mitotic Figures from Haematoxylin and Eosin-Stained Slides},
    author={Zhuoyan Shen, Mikael Simard, Douglas Brand, Vanghelita Andrei, Ali
  Al-Khader, Fatine Oumlil, Katherine Trevers, Thomas Butters, Simon Haefliger,
  Eleanna Kara, Fernanda Amary, Roberto Tirabosco, Paul Cool, Gary Royle, Maria
  A. Hawkins, Adrienne M. Flanagan, Charles-Antoine Collins Fekete},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.12773},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.12773},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI}
}