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EBHI-Seg: A novel enteroscope biopsy histopathological hematoxylin and eosin image dataset for image segmentation
Liyu Shi1, Xiaoyan Li2, Weiming Hu1
1Microscopic Image and Medical Image Analysis Group, College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
Background And Purpose:
Colorectal cancer is a common fatal malignancy, the fourth most common cancer in men, and the third most common cancer in women worldwide. Timely detection of cancer in its early stages is essential for treating the disease. Currently, there is a lack of datasets for histopathological image segmentation of colorectal cancer, which often hampers the assessment accuracy when computer technology is used to aid in diagnosis.
Methods:
This present study provided a new publicly available Enteroscope Biopsy Histopathological Hematoxylin and Eosin Image Dataset for Image Segmentation Tasks (EBHI-Seg). To demonstrate the validity and extensiveness of EBHI-Seg, the experimental results for EBHI-Seg are evaluated using classical machine learning methods and deep learning methods.
Results:
The experimental results showed that deep learning methods had a better image segmentation performance when utilizing EBHI-Seg. The maximum accuracy of the Dice evaluation metric for the classical machine learning method is 0.948, while the Dice evaluation metric for the deep learning method is 0.965.
Conclusion:
This publicly available dataset contained 4,456 images of six types of tumor differentiation stages and the corresponding ground truth images. The dataset can provide researchers with new segmentation algorithms for medical diagnosis of colorectal cancer, which can be used in the clinical setting to help doctors and patients. EBHI-Seg is publicly available at: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/EBHI-SEG/21540159/1.
