Enhancing histopathological image classification of invasive ductal carcinoma using hybrid harmonization techniques

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Abdallah, Nassib | Marion, Jean-Marie | Tauber, Clovis | Carlier, Thomas | Hatt, Mathieu | Chauvet, Pierre

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International audience. This study aims to develop a robust pipeline for classifying invasive ductal carcinomas and benign tumors in histopathological images, addressing variability within and between centers. We specifically tackle the challenge of detecting atypical data and variability between common clusters within the same database. Our feature engineering-based pipeline comprises a feature extraction step, followed by multiple harmonization techniques to rectify intra- and inter-center batch effects resulting from image acquisition variability and diverse patient clinical characteristics. These harmonization steps facilitate the construction of more robust and efficient models. We assess the proposed pipeline’s performance on two public breast cancer databases, BreaKHIS and IDCDB, utilizing recall, precision, and accuracy metrics. Our pipeline outperforms recent models, achieving 90-95% accuracy in classifying benign and malignant tumors. We demonstrate the advantage of harmonization for classifying patches from different databases. Our top model scored 94.7% for IDCDB and 95.2% for BreaKHis, surpassing existing feature engineering-based models (92.1% for IDCDB and 87.7% for BreaKHIS) and attaining comparable performance to deep learning models. The proposed feature-engineering-based pipeline effectively classifies malignant and benign tumors while addressing variability within and between centers through the incorporation of various harmonization techniques. Our findings reveal that harmonizing variabilities between patches from different batches directly impacts the learning and testing performance of classification models. This pipeline has the potential to enhance breast cancer diagnosis and treatment and may be applicable to other diseases.

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