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Activity Number: 5 - Innovations in Digital Pathology and Spatial Transcriptomics: Statistical Challenges and Major Impacts
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2022 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: International Chinese Statistical Association
Abstract #320705
Title: A User-Friendly Tool for Cloud-Based, Whole-Slide Image Segmentation with Applications to Renal Histopathology
Author(s): Pinaki Sarder*
Companies: University at Buffalo
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Image-based machine learning tools hold great promise for clinical applications in neuropathology and kidney research. However, the ideal end-users of these computational tools (e.g., pathologists and biological scientists) often face prohibitive challenges in using these tools to their full potential, including the lack of technical expertise, suboptimal user interface, and limited computation power. We have developed Histo-Cloud, a tool for segmentation of whole slide images (WSIs) that has an easy-to-use graphical user interface. This tool runs a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN) for the segmentation of WSIs in the cloud and allows the extraction of features from segmented regions for further analysis. By segmenting glomeruli, interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy, and vascular structures from renal and nonrenal WSIs, we demonstrate the scalability, best practices for transfer learning, and effects of dataset variability. Finally, we demonstrate an application for animal model research, analyzing glomerular features in murine models of aging, diabetic nephropathy, and HIV-associated nephropathy. The ability to access this tool over the internet will facilit


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