CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images

Survival analysis is a branch of statistics to analyze the time duration that is expected until some events of interest happen, like the death in the organisms of biology. Currently, survival analysis based on pathological images has turned out to be a truly energetic area in the research of healthc...

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Main Authors: Bo Tang, Ao Li, Bin Li, Minghui Wang
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Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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description Survival analysis is a branch of statistics to analyze the time duration that is expected until some events of interest happen, like the death in the organisms of biology. Currently, survival analysis based on pathological images has turned out to be a truly energetic area in the research of healthcare for making primary decisions on therapy and improving patients’ quality of treatment. In this regard, the interest to design convolutional neural networks for survival analysis with pathological images is increasing greatly at present. Furthermore, to consider the important spatial hierarchies between features and improve the robustness to affine transformation, capsule network (referred to as CapsNet) has been put forward in recent years. A novel capsule network named CapSurv is introduced in this paper, with a new loss function named survival loss to make survival analysis with whole slide pathological images. In addition, to train CapSurv preferably, semantic-level features extracted by VGG16, are used to distinguish discriminative patches from whole slide pathological images. Our method is applied to the predictions of the survival of glioblastoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma with a public cancer dataset. The results illustrate the proposed CapSurv model has the ability to improve the performance of the prediction by comparing with state-of-the-art survival models.
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spelling doaj-art-4da968da42e54afdad97213e01ddf0d22025-08-20T03:16:45ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-017260222603010.1109/ACCESS.2019.29010498651474CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological ImagesBo Tang0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-2401Ao Li1Bin Li2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2332-3959Minghui Wang3School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, ChinaSurvival analysis is a branch of statistics to analyze the time duration that is expected until some events of interest happen, like the death in the organisms of biology. Currently, survival analysis based on pathological images has turned out to be a truly energetic area in the research of healthcare for making primary decisions on therapy and improving patients’ quality of treatment. In this regard, the interest to design convolutional neural networks for survival analysis with pathological images is increasing greatly at present. Furthermore, to consider the important spatial hierarchies between features and improve the robustness to affine transformation, capsule network (referred to as CapsNet) has been put forward in recent years. A novel capsule network named CapSurv is introduced in this paper, with a new loss function named survival loss to make survival analysis with whole slide pathological images. In addition, to train CapSurv preferably, semantic-level features extracted by VGG16, are used to distinguish discriminative patches from whole slide pathological images. Our method is applied to the predictions of the survival of glioblastoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma with a public cancer dataset. The results illustrate the proposed CapSurv model has the ability to improve the performance of the prediction by comparing with state-of-the-art survival models.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8651474/Survival analysiscapsule networkspathological imagesdeep learning
spellingShingle Bo Tang
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Bin Li
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CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images
IEEE Access
Survival analysis
capsule networks
pathological images
deep learning
title CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images
title_full CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images
title_fullStr CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images
title_full_unstemmed CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images
title_short CapSurv: Capsule Network for Survival Analysis With Whole Slide Pathological Images
title_sort capsurv capsule network for survival analysis with whole slide pathological images
topic Survival analysis
capsule networks
pathological images
deep learning
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8651474/
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