A Structured Latent Model for Ovarian Carcinoma Subtyping from Histopathology Slides

According to the World Health Organization, ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer type worldwide and its outcomes are the poorest among women  (Prat, 2012). Clinical differences between histologic subtypes of ovarian cancer have long been recognized, but it is only recently that pathologists have been able to define carcinomas in a way that correlates well with clinical and molecular differences (Prat, 2012; Racoceanu and Capron, 2016). Currently, five main histologic types of ovarian carcinomas (cancers derived from epithelial cells) have been identified (figure 1): high-grade serous (HGSC), endometrioid (EN), clear cell (CC), mucinous (MC) and low-grade serous (LGSC).
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