Celiac Disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the small intestine in genetically predisposed children and adults. Gluten exposure triggers an inflammatory cascade which leads to compromised intestinal barrier function. If this enteropathy is unrecognized, this can lead to anemia, decreased bone density, and, in longstanding cases, intestinal cancer. The prevalence of the disorder is 1% in the United States. An intestinal (duodenal) biopsy is considered the "gold standard" for diagnosis. The mild CD might go unnoticed due to non-specific clinical symptoms or mild histologic features. In our current work, we trained a model based on deep residual networks to diagnose CD severity using a histological scoring system called the modified Marsh score. The proposed model was evaluated using an independent set of 120 whole slide images from 15 CD patients and achieved an AUC greater than 0.96 in all classes. These results demonstrate the diagnostic power of the proposed model for CD severity classification using histological images.
@article{arxiv.1910.03084,
title = {CeliacNet: Celiac Disease Severity Diagnosis on Duodenal Histopathological Images Using Deep Residual Networks},
author = {Rasoul Sali and Lubaina Ehsan and Kamran Kowsari and Marium Khan and Christopher A. Moskaluk and Sana Syed and Donald E. Brown},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03084},
year = {2019}
}
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accepted at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2019)