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A Deep Learning Based Pipeline For Metastatic Breast Cancer Classification From Whole Slide Images (Wsi), Arjun Punabhai Vekariya

Computer Science and Engineering Theses

Pathology is a 150-year-old medical specialty that has seen a paradigm shift over the past few years with the advent of Digital Pathology. Digital Pathology is a very promising approach to diagnostic medicine to accomplish better, faster and cheaper diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of cancer and other important diseases. Historical approaches in Digital Pathology have focused primarily on low-level image analysis tasks (e.g., color normalization, nuclear segmentation, and feature extraction) hence they are not generalized, thus not useful for practical use in clinical practices. In this thesis, a general Deep Learning based classification pipeline for identifying cancer metastases from histological …