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Scale-Aware Transformers for Diagnosing Melanocytic Lesions.

Wenjun Wu¹, Sachin Mehta², Shima Nofallah²

¹Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

IEEE Access : Practical Innovations, Open Solutions

|February 25, 2022

Summary

A new AI model, ScATNet, accurately classifies skin lesions from whole slide images, matching pathologist performance. This improves diagnostic accuracy for challenging melanocytic lesions.

Keywords:

Convolutional neural network histopathological images melanocytic risk lesions melanoma multi-scale skin cancer diagnosis transformers whole-slide image classification

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Area of Science:

Digital pathology
Computational dermatology
Artificial intelligence in medicine

Background:

Diagnosing melanocytic lesions presents significant challenges due to observer variability.
Histopathological whole slide images are crucial for invasive melanoma diagnosis.
Digital pathology enables computational tools to enhance diagnostic accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel self-attention-based network for classifying melanocytic skin lesions.
To learn multi-scale image representations for improved diagnostic performance.
To address the need for automated classification of digital whole slide images.

Main Methods:

Introduction of ScATNet, a self-attention network for whole slide image analysis.
Learning representations from digital whole slide images at multiple scales.
Soft weighting of multi-scale representations to differentiate diagnostic information.

Main Results:

ScATNet significantly outperformed five other state-of-the-art whole slide image classification methods.
The model achieved performance comparable to practicing U.S. dermatopathologists.
Demonstrated effective discrimination between diagnosis-relevant and irrelevant information.

Conclusions:

The novel self-attention network (ScATNet) shows high efficacy in classifying melanocytic lesions.
AI-powered analysis can achieve performance on par with expert pathologists.
Publicly available code facilitates further research in digital dermatopathology.