Cancer Metastasis Detection With Neural Conditional Random Field

Understand

Breast cancer diagnosis often requires accurate detection of metastasis in lymph nodes through Whole-slide Images (WSIs).

• Recent advances in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown significant successes in medical image analysis and particularly in computational histopathology.
• Because of the outrageous large size of WSIs, most of the methods divide one slide into lots of small image patches and perform classification on each patch independently.
• However, neighboring patches often share spatial correlations, and ignoring these spatial correlations may result in inconsistent predictions.