Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Predicting non-small cell lung cancer prognosis by fully automated microscopic pathology image features

  • Kun-Hsing Yu,
  • Ce Zhang,
  • Gerald J. Berry,
  • Russ B. Altman,
  • Christopher Ré,
  • Daniel L. Rubin,
  • Michael Snyder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12474
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Diagnosis of lung cancer through manual histopathology evaluation is insufficient to predict patient survival. Here, the authors use computerized image processing to identify diagnostically relevant image features and use these features to distinguish lung cancer patients with different prognoses.