AI applications in renal pathology

Y Huo, R Deng, Q Liu, AB Fogo, H Yang - Kidney international, 2021 - Elsevier
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, especially deep learning
methods, has been translated at revolutionary speed to efforts in AI-assisted healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of discriminative and deep learning feature extraction methods for whole slide image analysis: A survey

K Al-Thelaya, NU Gilal, M Alzubaidi, F Majeed… - Journal of Pathology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital pathology technologies, including whole slide imaging (WSI), have significantly
improved modern clinical practices by facilitating storing, viewing, processing, and sharing …

A deep learning instance segmentation approach for global glomerulosclerosis assessment in donor kidney biopsies

N Altini, GD Cascarano, A Brunetti, I De Feudis… - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The histological assessment of glomeruli is fundamental for determining if a kidney is
suitable for transplantation. The Karpinski score is essential to evaluate the need for a single …

Boundary-aware glomerulus segmentation: toward one-to-many stain generalization

J Silva, L Souza, P Chagas, R Calumby… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing availability of scanned whole-slide images (WSIs) has allowed
nephropathology to open new possibilities for medical decision-making over high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Performance and limitations of a supervised deep learning approach for the histopathological Oxford Classification of glomeruli with IgA nephropathy

N Altini, M Rossini, S Turkevi-Nagy, F Pesce… - Computer Methods and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective The Oxford Classification for IgA nephropathy is the
most successful example of an evidence-based nephropathology classification system. The …

Glo-In-One: holistic glomerular detection, segmentation, and lesion characterization with large-scale web image mining

T Yao, Y Lu, J Long, A Jha, Z Zhu… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose: The quantitative detection, segmentation, and characterization of glomeruli from
high-resolution whole slide imaging (WSI) play essential roles in the computer-assisted …

Segment-then-segment: context-preserving crop-based segmentation for large biomedical images

M Benčević, Y Qiu, I Galić, A Pižurica - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Medical images are often of huge size, which presents a challenge in terms of memory
requirements when training machine learning models. Commonly, the images are …

Sex Differences in Glomerular Lesions, in Atherosclerosis Progression, and in the Response to Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in the ApoE−/− Mice Model

A Mallén, R Rodriguez-Urquia, R Alvarez… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study analyzes sex-based differences in renal structure and the response to the
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitor enalapril in a mouse model of …

Efficient perineural invasion detection of histopathological images using U-Net

Y Park, J Park, GJ Jang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Perineural invasion (PNI), a sign of poor diagnosis and tumor metastasis, is common in a
variety of malignant tumors. The infiltrating patterns and morphologies of tumors vary by …

VB-SOLO: single-stage instance segmentation of overlap** epithelial cells

L Li, W Chen, J Qi - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The instance segmentation of overlap** cells in smear images of epithelial cells is
challenging due to the significant overlap and adhesion between the cells' translucent …