Quantitative Analysis of Benign and Malignant Tumors in Histopathology: Predicting Prostate Cancer Grading Using SVM

Abstract

An adenocarcinoma is a type of malignant cancerous tissue that forms from a glandular structure in epithelial tissue. Analyzed stained microscopic biopsy images were used to perform image manipulation and extract significant features for support vector machine (SVM) classification, to predict the Gleason grading of prostate cancer (PCa) based on the morphological features of the cell nucleus and lumen. Histopathology biopsy tissue images were used and categorized into four Gleason grade groups, namely Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, and benign. The first three grades are considered malignant. K-means and watershed algorithms were used for color-based segmentation and separation of overlapping cell nuclei, respectively. In total, 400 images, divided equally among the four groups, were collected for SVM classification. To classify the proposed morphological features, SVM classification based on binary learning was performed using linear and Gaussian classifiers. The prediction model yielded an accuracy of 88.7% for malignant vs. benign, 85.0% for Grade 3 vs. Grade 4, 5, and 92.5% for Grade 4 vs. Grade 5. The SVM, based on biopsy-derived image features, consistently and accurately classified the Gleason grading of prostate cancer. All results are comparatively better than those reported in the literature. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 2969 2 of 17 practitioners, for both diagnosis and treatment. Usually, the cancer detection process in histopathology consists of categorizing stained microscopic biopsy images into malignant and benign.The Gleason grade grouping system defines Gleason scores ≤ 6 as grade 1, score 3 + 4 = 7 as grade 2, score 4 + 3 = 7 as grade 3, score 4 + 4, 3 + 5 or 5 + 3 = 8 as grade 4, and score 4 + 5, 5 + 4 or 5 + 5 = 9 or 10 as grade 5. The Gleason score is obtained by adding the primary (most common) and secondary (second most common) scores from H&E stained tissue microscopic images. This system was developed by Dr. Donald F Gleason, who was a Pathologist in Minnesota, and members of the Veterans Administration Cooperative Urological Research Group (VACURG) [3]. This system was tested on a large number of patients, including long-term follow-ups and is considered an outstanding success.In recent years, an excellent and important addition to microscopy and digital imaging has been developed for microscopes that are used to convert stained tissue slides into whole slide digital images. This allows for more efficient computer-based viewing and analysis of histopathology. Early diagnosis and treatment are required, to avoid the enlargement of cancer cells in the prostate gland and control the spreading of more aggressive tumors to other parts of the body.The digital pathology field has grown dramatically over recent years, largely due to technological advancements in image processing and machine learning algorithms, and increases in computational power. As part of this field, many methods have been proposed for automatic histopathological image analysis and classification. In this paper, color segmentation, based...

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