eprintid: 10185511 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/55/11 datestamp: 2024-01-16 15:51:25 lastmod: 2025-01-13 11:15:25 status_changed: 2024-01-16 15:51:25 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Sharma, Shallu creators_name: Kumar, Sumit creators_name: Sharma, Manoj creators_name: Kalkal, Ashish title: An ensemble of deep CNNs for automatic grading of breast cancer in digital pathology images ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F45 keywords: Breast cancer; Ensemble model; Pathology; CNN; Stain-normalization note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Histopathological diagnosis is the mainstay of present-day preventive medical care service to guide the therapy and treatment of breast cancer at an early stage. Manual examination of histologic data based on clinicians’ subjective knowledge is a time-consuming, labour-intensive, and costly method that necessitates clinical intervention and competence for a fair decision. In the recent work, we have developed an ensemble of five deep CNNs to classify three grades of breast cancer using quantitative image-based assessment of digital pathology slides without any manual intervention. To produce final predictions on the dataset, a fuzzy ranking algorithm is used. On the Databiox dataset, the suggested model attained an accuracy of 79%, 75%, 89%, and 82% at 4×, 10×, 20×, and 40× magnification, respectively. Furthermore, it has been observed that the stain-normalization strategy improves the model’s classification performance on the histopathological images. In this case, the Macenko stain-normalization technique is employed which further enhances the performance of the proposed ensemble model up to 80%, 100%, 100%, and 82% at 4×, 10×, 20×, and 40× magnification, respectively. Additionally, a comparative analysis with the existing state-of-the-art technique demonstrated the superiority of the proposed scheme. date: 2024-04 date_type: published publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-09368-1 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2139768 doi: 10.1007/s00521-023-09368-1 lyricists_name: Kalkal, Ashish lyricists_id: AKALK88 actors_name: Kalkal, Ashish actors_id: AKALK88 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Neural Computing and Applications volume: 36 pagerange: 5673-5693 issn: 0941-0643 citation: Sharma, Shallu; Kumar, Sumit; Sharma, Manoj; Kalkal, Ashish; (2024) An ensemble of deep CNNs for automatic grading of breast cancer in digital pathology images. Neural Computing and Applications , 36 pp. 5673-5693. 10.1007/s00521-023-09368-1 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-09368-1>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10185511/1/accepted-manuscript_NCAA.pdf