Automated curation of large-scale cancer histopathology image datasets using deep learning.
Lars HilgersNarmin Ghaffari LalehNicholas P WestAlice WestwoodKatherine J HewittPhilip QuirkeHeike I GrabschZunamys I CarreroEmylou MatthaeiChiara M L LoefflerTitus J BrinkerTanwei YuanHermann BrennerAlexander BrobeilMichael HoffmeisterJakob Nikolas KatherPublished in: Histopathology (2024)
Our findings show that using the low-resolution thumbnail image is sufficient to accurately classify the type of slide in digital pathology. This can support researchers to make the vast resource of existing pathology archives accessible to modern AI models with only minimal manual annotations.