A deep convolutional neural network for segmentation of whole-slide pathology images identifies novel tumour cell-perivascular niche interactions that are associated with poor survival in glioblastoma.
Amin Zadeh ShiraziMark D McDonnellEric FornaciariNarjes Sadat BagherianKaitlin G ScheerMichael Susithiran SamuelMahdi YaghoobiRebecca J OrmsbySantosh PoonooseDamon J TumesGuillermo A GomezPublished in: British journal of cancer (2021)
This work identified key histopathological features that correlate with patient survival and detected spatially associated genetic signatures that contribute to tumour-stroma interactions and which should be investigated as new targets in glioblastoma. The source codes and datasets used are available in GitHub: https://github.com/amin20/GBM_WSSM .