Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Clinically applicable histopathological diagnosis system for gastric cancer detection using deep learning

  • Zhigang Song,
  • Shuangmei Zou,
  • Weixun Zhou,
  • Yong Huang,
  • Liwei Shao,
  • Jing Yuan,
  • Xiangnan Gou,
  • Wei Jin,
  • Zhanbo Wang,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Xiaohui Ding,
  • Jinhong Liu,
  • Chunkai Yu,
  • Calvin Ku,
  • Cancheng Liu,
  • Zhuo Sun,
  • Gang Xu,
  • Yuefeng Wang,
  • Xiaoqing Zhang,
  • Dandan Wang,
  • Shuhao Wang,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Richard C. Davis,
  • Huaiyin Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18147-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The early detection and accurate histopathological diagnosis of gastric cancer are essential factors that can help increase the chances of successful treatment. Here, the authors report on a digital pathology tool achieving high performance on a real world test dataset and show that the system can aid pathologists in improving diagnostic accuracy.