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High Throughput Analysis of Breast Cancer Specimens on the Grid
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High Throughput Analysis of Breast Cancer Specimens on the Grid
Lin Yang1, 2, Wenjin Chen2, Peter Meer1, Gratian Salaru2, Michael D. Feldman3 and David J. Foran2
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Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, 08544, USA |
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Center of Biomedical Imaging and Informatics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA |
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Dept. of Surgical Pathology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA |
Abstract
Breast cancer accounts for about 30% of all cancers and 15% of all cancer deaths in women in the United States. Advances in
computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) holds promise for early detecting and staging disease progression. In this paper we introduce
a Grid-enabled CAD to perform automatic analysis of imaged histopathology breast tissue specimens. More than 100,000 digitized
samples (1200×1200 pixels) have already been processed on the Grid. We have analyzed results for 3744 breast tissue samples,
which were originated from four different institutions using diaminobenzidine (DAB) and hematoxylin staining. Both linear
and nonlinear dimension reduction techniques are compared, and the best one (ISOMAP) was applied to reduce the dimensionality
of the features. The experimental results show that the Gentle Boosting using an eight node CART decision tree as the weak
learner provides the best result for classification. The algorithm has an accuracy of 86.02% using only 20% of the specimens
as the training set.
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