arXiv · 2103.11362
Self adversarial attack as an augmentation method for immunohistochemical stainings
Abstract
It has been shown that unpaired image-to-image translation methods constrained by cycle-consistency hide the information necessary for accurate input reconstruction as imperceptible noise. We demonstrate that, when applied to histopathology data, this hidden noise appears to be related to stain specific features and show that this is the case with two immunohistochemical stainings during translation to Periodic acid- Schiff (PAS), a histochemical staining method commonly applied in renal pathology. Moreover, by perturbing this hidden information, the translation models produce different, plausible outputs. We demonstrate that this property can be used as an augmentation method which, in a case of supervised glomeruli segmentation, leads to improved performance.
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Jelica Vasiljević, Friedrich Feuerhake, Cédric Wemmert, Thomas Lampert. 2021-03-21. Self adversarial attack as an augmentation method for immunohistochemical stainings. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11362
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