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Research Article:
Automated extraction of precise protein expression patterns in lymphoma by text mining abstracts of immunohistochemical studies
Jia-Fu Chang, Mihail Popescu, Gerald L Arthur
J Pathol Inform
2013, 4:20 (31 July 2013)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.115880
PMID
:23967385
Background:
In general, surgical pathology reviews report protein expression by tumors in a semi-quantitative manner, that is, -, -/+, +/-, +. At the same time, the experimental pathology literature provides multiple examples of precise expression levels determined by immunohistochemical (IHC) tissue examination of populations of tumors. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques enable the automated extraction of such information through text mining. We propose establishing a database linking quantitative protein expression levels with specific tumor classifications through NLP.
Materials and Methods:
Our method takes advantage of typical forms of representing experimental findings in terms of percentages of protein expression manifest by the tumor population under study. Characteristically, percentages are represented straightforwardly with the % symbol or as the number of positive findings of the total population. Such text is readily recognized using regular expressions and templates permitting extraction of sentences containing these forms for further analysis using grammatical structures and rule-based algorithms.
Results:
Our pilot study is limited to the extraction of such information related to lymphomas. We achieved a satisfactory level of retrieval as reflected in scores of 69.91% precision and 57.25% recall with an
F
-score of 62.95%. In addition, we demonstrate the utility of a web-based curation tool for confirming and correcting our findings.
Conclusions:
The experimental pathology literature represents a rich source of pathobiological information, which has been relatively underutilized. There has been a combinatorial explosion of knowledge within the pathology domain as represented by increasing numbers of immunophenotypes and disease subclassifications. NLP techniques support practical text mining techniques for extracting this knowledge and organizing it in forms appropriate for pathology decision support systems.
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Reproducibility in the automated quantitative assessment of HER2/neu for breast cancer
Tyler Keay, Catherine Conway, Neil O'Flaherty, Stephen M Hewitt, Katherine Shea, Marios A Gavrielides
J Pathol Inform
2013, 4:19 (31 July 2013)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.115879
PMID
:23967384
Background:
With the emerging role of digital imaging in pathology and the application of automated image-based algorithms to a number of quantitative tasks, there is a need to examine factors that may affect the reproducibility of results. These factors include the imaging properties of whole slide imaging (WSI) systems and their effect on the performance of quantitative tools. This manuscript examines inter-scanner and inter-algorithm variability in the assessment of the commonly used HER2/neu tissue-based biomarker for breast cancer with emphasis on the effect of algorithm training.
Materials and Methods:
A total of 241 regions of interest from 64 breast cancer tissue glass slides were scanned using three different whole-slide images and were analyzed using two different automated image analysis algorithms, one with preset parameters and another incorporating a procedure for objective parameter optimization. Ground truth from a panel of seven pathologists was available from a previous study. Agreement analysis was used to compare the resulting HER2/neu scores.
Results:
The results of our study showed that inter-scanner agreement in the assessment of HER2/neu for breast cancer in selected fields of view when analyzed with any of the two algorithms examined in this study was equal or better than the inter-observer agreement previously reported on the same set of data. Results also showed that discrepancies observed between algorithm results on data from different scanners were significantly reduced when the alternative algorithm that incorporated an objective re-training procedure was used, compared to the commercial algorithm with preset parameters.
Conclusion:
Our study supports the use of objective procedures for algorithm training to account for differences in image properties between WSI systems.
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What is new in the evaluation of diagnostic digital cytopathology in cervicovaginal smears?
Marilyn M Bui, Corinne L Stephenson
J Pathol Inform
2013, 4:18 (31 July 2013)
DOI
:10.4103/2153-3539.115874
PMID
:23967386
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