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Predicting microsatellite instability from whole slide images using texture features

Swanson, N.; Castro, M. A. A.; Robertson, A. G.; Shmulevich, I.; Tercan, B.

2025-04-04 bioinformatics
10.1101/2025.03.30.646246 bioRxiv
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Identifying MSI in whole slide images (WSIs), one of the most widely used diagnostic imaging formats, is of great importance and in demand. In this study we employed color-based texture features to predict MSI on both a tile and sample based level. We found that within cohorts of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained WSIs, texture morphology is able to predict MSI on a tile level with an AUC of up to 0.95 and on a sample level with an AUC of up to 0.98. This runs in contrast to other methods for predicting MSI in H&E WSIs which either utilized artificial intelligence based models, or achieved lower accuracy scores. Our results demonstrate that texture morphology is a significantly notable factor when it comes to identifying MSI in H&E WSIs, and should be used when constructing future models for MSI identification in a clinical setting.

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