Application Name | Ki-67 Quantification Breast Cancer |
Version | 1.0.0 |
Documentation Version | 15.03.2020 - 1 |
Input Image(s) | 2D (standard and/or WSI), RGB |
Input Parameter(s) | None |
Keywords | pathology, ihc, ki67, ki-67, nuclei, microscopy, mamma, breast, tissue, detection, tumor, oncology, carcinoma |
Short Description | Detection of tumor cell nuclei in immunohistochemically (IHC) stained sections of human breast cancer. Counting of positively (brown) and negatively (blue) stained nuclei and calculation of positive/negative ratio. |
References / Literature | Reference department: Diagnostic and Research Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Dr.med.univ. Martin Asslaber |
Important: Research Use Only! This application is not certified as a medical device and must not be used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. |
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This application automatically detects and counts tumor cell nuclei in immunohistochemically (IHC) stained sections of human breast cancer. Positively (brown) and negatively (blue) stained nuclei are counted separately. The ratio of the detected positively and negatively stained nuclei is calculated. The application was developed and tested with microscopy images of human tissue sections.
In the following sections, we provide the necessary input data requirements that are necessary to obtain accurate image analysis results and a description of the output files.
Input for this application is the following image data:
Image type | Color channels | Color depth (per channel) | Size (px) | Resolution (μm/px) |
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2D (standard and/or WSI)
| 3 (RGB) | 8 Bit | WSI formats: Min: 640 x 480 Standard images: Min: 640 x 480 | Typically: 0.3 - 0.5 |
Image content Microscopy image of IHC Ki-67 stained sample, typically taken with 20x magnification. Additional requirements
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Important: For all images, the following requirements apply:
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No additional input parameters are required for this application.
File format | Description | ||
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1 | csv | results.csv: A csv file containing global analysis results for the input image. | |
2 | jpg | results_visualization.jpg: A visualization of the analysis:
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3 | json | annotation_results.json: JSON file containing positions of detected nuclei. The position is measured from the left upper corner (1,1) of the image. |
Single csv-file
Column NO. | Column name | Examples | Value range | Description |
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1 | nuclei count | 1232 | 0 - | Number of detected nuclei. |
2 | blue nuclei count | 386 | 0 - | Number of detected blue nuclei. |
3 | brown nuclei count | 846 | 0 - | Number of detected brown nuclei. |
4 | ratio brown/blue nuclei | 2.19 | 0 - inf | Number of brown nuclei divided by the number of blue nuclei. if blue=0 the result is "inf" (infinity). |
Please note: The parameters marked with an asterisk (*) are calculated using https://scikit-image.org/. |
More information about errors can be found in the Application Error Documentation.
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