Model Overview

A pre-trained model for classifying nuclei cells as the following types

Other
Inflammatory
Epithelial
Spindle-Shaped

This model is trained using DenseNet121 over ConSeP dataset.

Data

The training dataset is from https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/tia/data/hovernet

wget https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/tia/data/hovernet/consep_dataset.zip
unzip -q consep_dataset.zip

Preprocessing

After downloading this dataset, python script data_process.py from scripts folder can be used to preprocess and generate the final dataset for training.

python scripts/data_process.py --input /path/to/data/CoNSeP --output /path/to/data/CoNSePNuclei

After generating the output files, please modify the dataset_dir parameter specified in configs/train.json and configs/inference.json to reflect the output folder which contains new dataset.json.

Class values in dataset are

1 = other
2 = inflammatory
3 = healthy epithelial
4 = dysplastic/malignant epithelial
5 = fibroblast
6 = muscle
7 = endothelial

As part of pre-processing, the following steps are executed.

Crop and Extract each nuclei Image + Label (128x128) based on the centroid given in the dataset.
Combine classes 3 & 4 into the epithelial class and 5,6 & 7 into the spindle-shaped class.
Update the label index for the target nuclie based on the class value
Other cells which are part of the patch are modified to have label idex = 255

Example dataset.json in output folder:

{
  "training": [
    {
      "image": "/workspace/data/CoNSePNuclei/Train/Images/train_1_3_0001.png",
      "label": "/workspace/data/CoNSePNuclei/Train/Labels/train_1_3_0001.png",
      "nuclei_id": 1,
      "mask_value": 3,
      "centroid": [
        64,
        64
      ]
    }
  ],
  "validation": [
    {
      "image": "/workspace/data/CoNSePNuclei/Test/Images/test_1_3_0001.png",
      "label": "/workspace/data/CoNSePNuclei/Test/Labels/test_1_3_0001.png",
      "nuclei_id": 1,
      "mask_value": 3,
      "centroid": [
        64,
        64
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Training configuration

The training was performed with the following:

GPU: at least 12GB of GPU memory
Actual Model Input: 4 x 128 x 128
AMP: True
Optimizer: Adam
Learning Rate: 1e-4
Loss: torch.nn.CrossEntropyLoss
Dataset Manager: CacheDataset

Memory Consumption Warning

If you face memory issues with CacheDataset, you can either switch to a regular Dataset class or lower the caching rate cache_rate in the configurations within range [0, 1] to minimize the System RAM requirements.

Input

4 channels

3 RGB channels
1 signal channel (label mask)

Output

4 channels

0 = Other
1 = Inflammatory
2 = Epithelial
3 = Spindle-Shaped

Performance

This model achieves the following F1 score on the validation data provided as part of the dataset:

Train F1 score = 0.926
Validation F1 score = 0.852

Confusion Metrics for Validation for individual classes are:

Metric	Other	Inflammatory	Epithelial	Spindle-Shaped
Precision	0.6909	0.7773	0.9078	0.8478
Recall	0.2754	0.7831	0.9533	0.8514
F1-score	0.3938	0.7802	0.9300	0.8496

Confusion Metrics for Training for individual classes are:

Metric	Other	Inflammatory	Epithelial	Spindle-Shaped
Precision	0.8000	0.9076	0.9560	0.9019
Recall	0.6512	0.9028	0.9690	0.8989
F1-score	0.7179	0.9052	0.9625	0.9004

Training Loss and F1

A graph showing the training Loss and F1-score over 100 epochs.

Validation F1

A graph showing the validation F1-score over 100 epochs.

MONAI Bundle Commands

In addition to the Pythonic APIs, a few command line interfaces (CLI) are provided to interact with the bundle. The CLI supports flexible use cases, such as overriding configs at runtime and predefining arguments in a file.

For more details usage instructions, visit the MONAI Bundle Configuration Page.

Execute training:

python -m monai.bundle run --config_file configs/train.json

Please note that if the default dataset path is not modified with the actual path in the bundle config files, you can also override it by using --dataset_dir:

python -m monai.bundle run --config_file configs/train.json --dataset_dir <actual dataset path>

Override the `train` config to execute multi-GPU training:

torchrun --standalone --nnodes=1 --nproc_per_node=2 -m monai.bundle run --config_file "['configs/train.json','configs/multi_gpu_train.json']"

Please note that the distributed training-related options depend on the actual running environment; thus, users may need to remove --standalone, modify --nnodes, or do some other necessary changes according to the machine used. For more details, please refer to pytorch's official tutorial.

Override the `train` config to execute evaluation with the trained model:

python -m monai.bundle run --config_file "['configs/train.json','configs/evaluate.json']"

Override the `train` config and `evaluate` config to execute multi-GPU evaluation:

torchrun --standalone --nnodes=1 --nproc_per_node=2 -m monai.bundle run --config_file "['configs/train.json','configs/evaluate.json','configs/multi_gpu_evaluate.json']"

Execute inference:

python -m monai.bundle run --config_file configs/inference.json

References

[1] S. Graham, Q. D. Vu, S. E. A. Raza, A. Azam, Y-W. Tsang, J. T. Kwak and N. Rajpoot. "HoVer-Net: Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of Nuclei in Multi-Tissue Histology Images." Medical Image Analysis, Sept. 2019. [doi]

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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