Hyper-Stain Inspector: A Framework for Robust Registration and Localised Co-Expression Analysis of Multiple Whole-Slide Images of Serial Histology Sections

Trahearn, Nicholas; Epstein, D. B. A.; Cree, Ian A.; Snead, David; Rajpoot, Nasir M.

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-05511-w

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“…We have shown in another work 16 that the system is capable of high quality registration of multi-IHC and is able to update the alignment when necessary, such as when the initial approximate alignment has not produced the best registration at a local level.…”

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Simultaneous automatic scoring and co‐registration of hormone receptors in tumor areas in whole slide images of breast cancer tissue slides

et al. 2016

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Automation of downstream analysis may offer many potential benefits to routine histopathology. One area of interest for automation is in the scoring of multiple immunohistochemical markers to predict the patient's response to targeted therapies. Automated serial slide analysis of this kind requires robust registration to identify common tissue regions across sections. We present an automated method for co‐localized scoring of Estrogen Receptor and Progesterone Receptor (ER/PR) in breast cancer core biopsies using whole slide images. Regions of tumor in a series of fifty consecutive breast core biopsies were identified by annotation on H&E whole slide images. Sequentially cut immunohistochemical stained sections were scored manually, before being digitally scanned and then exported into JPEG 2000 format. A two‐stage registration process was performed to identify the annotated regions of interest in the immunohistochemistry sections, which were then scored using the Allred system. Overall correlation between manual and automated scoring for ER and PR was 0.944 and 0.883, respectively, with 90% of ER and 80% of PR scores within in one point or less of agreement. This proof of principle study indicates slide registration can be used as a basis for automation of the downstream analysis for clinically relevant biomarkers in the majority of cases. The approach is likely to be improved by implantation of safeguarding analysis steps post registration. © 2016 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry

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Simultaneous automatic scoring and co‐registration of hormone receptors in tumor areas in whole slide images of breast cancer tissue slides

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“…Ref. [105] develops a tool for a more comfortable diagnosis with co-registered differently-stained sections. They use chamfer matching for the registration.…”

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The tempest in a cubic millimeter: Image-based refinements necessitate the reconstruction of 3D microvasculature from a large series of damaged alternately-stained histological sections

Lobachev

2019

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This work presents two methods that facilitate a 3D reconstruction of microscopic blood vessels in the volume slightly larger than 1 mm 3 . The source of the data are histological serial sections, i. e., microscopic images of probes, stained with immunohistochemistry. Odd and even sections have different stainings in our primary data set. Thus, firstly, an approach to register an alternately-stained series is presented. With image filtering and a feature-detection-based registration we obtain a registered stack of 148 serial sections. The series has missing sections, locally damaged sections, artifacts from acquisition. All these hinder correct connectivity of blood vessels. With our second approach we interpolate the missing information while maintaining the connectivity. We achieve this with deformations based on dense optical flow. The presented methodology is applicable to further histological series. A combination of both approaches allows us to reconstruct more than 76 % larger volumes. An important detail was the composition mode of images. Summarizing, we use methods from image processing and computer vision to create large-scale 3D models from immunostained histological serial sections.

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“…molecular alterations, clinical chemistry, survival, etc. ), via corresponding immunohistochemistry stains (IHC), 5,6 and mutational panels of known oncological driver mutations (among others) [7][8][9] . Furthermore, generative techniques have been developed to computationally translate one histological stain (e.g.…”

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PathFlow-MixMatch for Whole Slide Image Registration: An Investigation of a Segment-Based Scalable Image Registration Method

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Image registration involves finding the best alignment between different images of the same object. In these tasks, the object in question is viewed differently in each of the images (e.g. different rotation or light conditions, etc.). In digital pathology, image registration aligns correspondent regions of tissue from different stereotactic viewpoints (e.g. subsequent deeper sections of the same tissue). These comparisons are important for histological analysis and can facilitate previously unavailable manipulations, such as 3D tissue reconstruction and cell-level alignment of immunohistochemical (IHC) and special stains. Several benchmarks have been established for evaluating image registration techniques for histological tissue; however, little work has evaluated the impact of scaling registration techniques to Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Images (WSI), which are large enough for significant memory limitations, and contain recurrent patterns and deformations that hinder traditional alignment algorithms. Furthermore, as tissue sections often contain multiple, discrete, smaller tissue fragments, it is unnecessary to align an entire image when the bulk of the image is background whitespace and tissue fragments' orientations are often agnostic of each other. We present a methodology for circumventing large-scale image registration issues in histopathology and accompanying software. By removing background pixels, parsing the slide into discrete tissue segments, and matching, orienting and registering smaller segment pairs, we recovered registrations with lower Target Registration Error (TRE) when compared to utilizing the unmanipulated WSI. We tested our technique by having a pathologist annotate landmarks from 13 pairs of differently stained liver biopsy slides, performing WSI and segment-based registration techniques, and comparing overall TRE. Preliminary results demonstrate superior performance of registering segment pairs versus registering WSI (difference of median TRE of 44 pixels, p<0.001). Segment matching within WSI is an effective solution for histology image registration but requires further testing and validation to ensure its viability for stain translation and 3D histology analysis.

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Hyper-Stain Inspector: A Framework for Robust Registration and Localised Co-Expression Analysis of Multiple Whole-Slide Images of Serial Histology Sections

Cited by 27 publications

References 39 publications

Simultaneous automatic scoring and co‐registration of hormone receptors in tumor areas in whole slide images of breast cancer tissue slides

Simultaneous automatic scoring and co‐registration of hormone receptors in tumor areas in whole slide images of breast cancer tissue slides

The tempest in a cubic millimeter: Image-based refinements necessitate the reconstruction of 3D microvasculature from a large series of damaged alternately-stained histological sections

PathFlow-MixMatch for Whole Slide Image Registration: An Investigation of a Segment-Based Scalable Image Registration Method

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