Improving quantification of renal fibrosis using deep-DUET

Samuel Border; Avi Rosenberg; Jarcy Zee; Richard Levenson; Kuang-Yu Jen; Pinaki Sarder; Farzad Fereidouni

doi:10.1117/12.2654651

6 April 2023 Improving quantification of renal fibrosis using deep-DUET

Samuel Border, Avi Rosenberg, Jarcy Zee, Richard Levenson, Kuang-Yu Jen, Pinaki Sarder, Farzad Fereidouni

Proceedings Volume 12471, Medical Imaging 2023: Digital and Computational Pathology; 124710G (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2654651
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Accurate quantification of renal fibrosis has profound importance in the assessment of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Visual analysis of a biopsy stained with trichrome under the microscope by a pathologist is the gold standard for evaluation of fibrosis. Trichrome helps to highlight collagen and ultimately interstitial fibrosis. However, trichrome stains are not always reproducible, can underestimate collagen content and are not sensitive to subtle fibrotic patterns. Using the Dual-mode emission and transmission (DUET) microscopy approach, it is possible to capture both brightfield and fluorescence images from the same area of a tissue stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) enabling reproducible extraction of collagen with high sensitivity and specificity. Manual extraction of spectrally overlapping collagen signals from tubular epithelial cells and red blood cells is still an intensive task. We employed a UNet++ architecture for pixel-level segmentation and quantification of collagen using 760 whole slide image (WSI) patches from six cases of varying stages of fibrosis. Our trained model (Deep-DUET) used the supervised extracted collagen mask as ground truth and was able to predict the extent of collagen signal with a MSE of 0.05 in a holdout testing set while achieving an average AUC of 0.94 for predicting regions of collagen deposits. Expanding this work to the level of the WSI can greatly improve the ability of pathologists and machine learning (ML) tools to quantify the extent of renal fibrosis reproducibly and reliably.

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Samuel Border, Avi Rosenberg, Jarcy Zee, Richard Levenson, Kuang-Yu Jen, Pinaki Sarder, and Farzad Fereidouni "Improving quantification of renal fibrosis using deep-DUET", Proc. SPIE 12471, Medical Imaging 2023: Digital and Computational Pathology, 124710G (6 April 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2654651

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