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Volume: 36 | Article ID: COIMG-119
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Transformers for Microscopy Slide Image Segmentation of Invasive Melanoma
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2024.36.15.COIMG-119  Published OnlineJanuary 2024
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Prognosis for melanoma patients is traditionally determined with a tumor depth measurement called Breslow thickness. However, Breslow thickness fails to account for cross-sectional area, which is more useful for prognosis. We propose to use segmentation methods to estimate cross-sectional area of invasive melanoma in whole-slide images. First, we design a custom segmentation model from a transformer pretrained on breast cancer images, and adapt it for melanoma segmentation. Secondly, we finetune a segmentation backbone pretrained on natural images. Our proposed models produce quantitatively superior results compared to previous approaches and qualitatively better results as verified through a dermatologist.

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Franklin Wang, Michael Wang, Avideh Zakhor, Timothy McCalmont, "Transformers for Microscopy Slide Image Segmentation of Invasive Melanomain Electronic Imaging,  2024,  pp 119-1 - 119-5,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2024.36.15.COIMG-119

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