Title
Tau protein discrete aggregates in Alzheimer's disease: Neuritic plaques and tangles detection and segmentation using computational histopathology
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Sorbonne Université
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
Tau proteins in the gray matter are widely known to be a part of Alzheimer's disease symptoms. They can aggregate in three different structures within the brain: neurites, tangles, and neuritic plaques. The morphology and the spatial disposition of these three aggregates are hypothesised to be correlated to the advancement of the disease. In order to establish a behavioural disease model related to the Tau proteins aggregates, it is necessary to develop algorithms to detect and segment them automatically. We present a 5-folded pipeline aiming to perform with clinically operational results. This pipeline is composed of a non-linear colour normalisation, a CNN-based image classifier, an Unet-based image segmentation stage, and a morphological analysis of the segmented objects. The tangle detection and segmentation algorithms improve state-of-the-art performances (75.8% and 91.1% F1- score, respectively), and create a reference for neuritic plaques detection and segmentation (81.3% and 78.2% F1-score, respectively). These results constitute an initial baseline in an area where no prior results exist, as far as we know. The pipeline is complete and based on a promising state-of-the-art architecture. Therefore, we consider this study a handy baseline of an impactful extension to support new advances in Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, building a fully operational pipeline will be crucial to create a 3D histology map for a deeper understanding of clinico-pathological associations in Alzheimer's disease and the histology-based evidence of disease stratification among different sub-types.
Volume
12039
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132811142
ISSN of the container
16057422
ISBN of the container
9781510649538
Conference
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE: Medical Imaging 2022: Digital and Computational Pathology
Sponsor(s)
This research is supported by Mr Jean-Paul Baudecroux and The Big Brain Theory Program - Paris Brain Institute (ICM).
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