| Title | AutoStitcher: An Automated Program for Efficient and Robust Reconstruction of Digitized Whole Histological Sections from Tissue Fragments. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Penzias, G, Janowczyk A, Singanamalli A, Rusu M, Shih N, Feldman M, Stricker PD, Delprado W, Tiwari S, Böhm M, Haynes A-M, Ponsky L, Viswanath S, Madabhushi A |
| Journal | Scientific reports |
| Volume | 6 |
| Pagination | 29906 |
| Date Published | 2016 Jul 26 |
| ISSN | 2045-2322 |
| Abstract | In applications involving large tissue specimens that have been sectioned into smaller tissue fragments, manual reconstruction of a "pseudo whole-mount" histological section (PWMHS) can facilitate (a) pathological disease annotation, and (b) image registration and correlation with radiological images. We have previously presented a program called HistoStitcher, which allows for more efficient manual reconstruction than general purpose image editing tools (such as Photoshop). However HistoStitcher is still manual and hence can be laborious and subjective, especially when doing large cohort studies. In this work we present AutoStitcher, a novel automated algorithm for reconstructing PWMHSs from digitized tissue fragments. AutoStitcher reconstructs ("stitches") a PWMHS from a set of 4 fragments by optimizing a novel cost function that is domain-inspired to ensure (i) alignment of similar tissue regions, and (ii) contiguity of the prostate boundary. The algorithm achieves computational efficiency by performing reconstruction in a multi-resolution hierarchy. Automated PWMHS reconstruction results (via AutoStitcher) were quantitatively and qualitatively compared to manual reconstructions obtained via HistoStitcher for 113 prostate pathology sections. Distances between corresponding fiducials placed on each of the automated and manual reconstruction results were between 2.7%-3.2%, reflecting their excellent visual similarity. |
| DOI | 10.1038/srep29906 |
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| Alternate Journal | Sci Rep |
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