Colorectal adenocarcinoma originating in intestinal glandular structures is the most common form of colon cancer. In clinical practice, the morphology of intestinal glands, including architectural appearance and glandular formation, is used by pathologists to inform prognosis and plan the treatment of individual patients. However, achieving good inter-observer as well as intra-observer reproducibility of cancer grading is still a major challenge in modern pathology. An automated approach which quantifies the morphology of glands is a solution to the problem. This paper provides an overview to the Gland Segmentation in Colon Histology Images Challenge Contest (GlaS) held at MICCAI'2015. Details of the challenge, including organization, dataset and evaluation criteria, are presented, along with the method descriptions and evaluation results from the top performing methods.
@article{arxiv.1603.00275,
title = {Gland Segmentation in Colon Histology Images: The GlaS Challenge Contest},
author = {Korsuk Sirinukunwattana and Josien P. W. Pluim and Hao Chen and Xiaojuan Qi and Pheng-Ann Heng and Yun Bo Guo and Li Yang Wang and Bogdan J. Matuszewski and Elia Bruni and Urko Sanchez and Anton Böhm and Olaf Ronneberger and Bassem Ben Cheikh and Daniel Racoceanu and Philipp Kainz and Michael Pfeiffer and Martin Urschler and David R. J. Snead and Nasir M. Rajpoot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00275},
year = {2016}
}