Volume 187, 2016

Label-free classification of colon cancer grading using infrared spectral histopathology

Abstract

In recent years spectral histopathology (SHP) has been established as a label-free method to identify cancer within tissue. Herein, this approach is extended. It is not only used to identify tumour tissue with a sensitivity of 94% and a specificity of 100%, but in addition the tumour grading is determined. Grading is a measure of how much the tumour cells differ from the healthy cells. The grading ranges from G1 (well-differentiated), to G2 (moderately differentiated), G3 (poorly differentiated) and in rare cases to G4 (anaplastic). The grading is prognostic and is needed for the therapeutic decision of the clinician. The presented results show good agreement between the annotation by SHP and by pathologists. A correlation matrix is presented, and the results show that SHP provides prognostic values in colon cancer, which are obtained in a label-free and automated manner. It might become an important automated diagnostic tool at the bedside in precision medicine.

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Nov 2015
Accepted
11 Dec 2015
First published
11 Dec 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Faraday Discuss., 2016,187, 105-118

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Label-free classification of colon cancer grading using infrared spectral histopathology

C. Kuepper, F. Großerueschkamp, A. Kallenbach-Thieltges, A. Mosig, A. Tannapfel and K. Gerwert, Faraday Discuss., 2016, 187, 105 DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00157A

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