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Mitosis detection in breast cancer histology images with deep neural networks
Dan C Cireşan1, Alessandro Giusti2, Luca M Gambardella2
1IDSIA, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland. dan@idsia.ch
Abstract:
We use deep max-pooling convolutional neural networks to detect mitosis in breast histology images. The networks are trained to classify each pixel in the images, using as context a patch centered on the pixel. Simple postprocessing is then applied to the network output. Our approach won the ICPR 2012 mitosis detection competition, outperforming other contestants by a significant margin.