Identifying Metastases in Sentinel Lymph Nodes with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Understand

Metastatic presence in lymph nodes is one of the most important prognostic variables of breast cancer.

• The current diagnostic procedure for manually reviewing sentinel lymph nodes, however, is very time-consuming and subjective.
• Pathologists have to manually scan an entire digital whole-slide image (WSI) for regions of metastasis that are sometimes only detectable under high resolution or entirely hidden from the human visual cortex.
• From October 2015 to April 2016, the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) held the Camelyon Grand Challenge 2016 to crowd-source ideas and algorithms for automatic detection of lymph node metastasis.