Pathologists find tedious to examine the status of the sentinel lymph node on a large number of pathological scans. The examination process of such lymph node which encompasses metastasized cancer cells is histopathologically organized. However, the task of finding metastatic tissues is gradual which is often challenging. In this work, we present our deep convolutional neural network based model validated on PatchCamelyon (PCam) benchmark dataset for fundamental machine learning research in histopathology diagnosis. We find that our proposed model trained with a semi-supervised learning approach by using pseudo labels on PCam-level significantly leads to better performances to strong CNN baseline on the AUC metric.
@article{arxiv.1906.09587,
title = {Semi-Supervised Learning for Cancer Detection of Lymph Node Metastases},
author = {Amit Kumar Jaiswal and Ivan Panshin and Dimitrij Shulkin and Nagender Aneja and Samuel Abramov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09587},
year = {2019}
}
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Accepted in CVPR 2019 Workshop Towards Causal, Explainable and Universal Medical Visual Diagnosis