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Segmentation of diagnostic tissue compartments on whole slide images with renal thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs). (arXiv:2311.14971v1 [cs.CV]) arxiv.org/abs/2311.14971

Segmentation of diagnostic tissue compartments on whole slide images with renal thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs)

The thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs) manifest in renal biopsy histology with a broad spectrum of acute and chronic findings. Precise diagnostic criteria for a renal biopsy diagnosis of TMA are missing. As a first step towards a machine learning- and computer vision-based analysis of wholes slide images from renal biopsies, we trained a segmentation model for the decisive diagnostic kidney tissue compartments artery, arteriole, glomerulus on a set of whole slide images from renal biopsies with TMAs and Mimickers (distinct diseases with a similar nephropathological appearance as TMA like severe benign nephrosclerosis, various vasculitides, Bevacizumab-plug glomerulopathy, arteriolar light chain deposition disease). Our segmentation model combines a U-Net-based tissue detection with a Shifted windows-transformer architecture to reach excellent segmentation results for even the most severely altered glomeruli, arterioles and arteries, even on unseen staining domains from a different nephropathology lab. With accurate automatic segmentation of the decisive renal biopsy compartments in human renal vasculopathies, we have laid the foundation for large-scale compartment-specific machine learning and computer vision analysis of renal biopsy repositories with TMAs.

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