Predicting breast tumor proliferation from whole-slide images: the TUPAC16 challenge

Tumor proliferation is an important biomarker indicative of the prognosis of breast cancer patients. Patients with high tumor proliferation have worse outcomes compared to patients with low tumor proliferation (van Diest et al., 2004). The assessment of tumor proliferation influences the clinical management of the patient – patients with aggressive tumors are treated with more aggressive therapies and patients with indolent tumor are given more conservative treatments that are preferred because of fewer side-effects (Fitzgibbons et al., 2000).

Source: Medical Image Analysis - February 27, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Mitko Veta, Yujing J. Heng, Nikolas Stathonikos, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Francisco Beca, Thomas Wollmann, Karl Rohr, Manan A. Shah, Dayong Wang, Mikael Rousson, Martin Hedlund, David Tellez, Francesco Ciompi, Erwan Zerhouni, David Lanyi, Matheus Viana, Source Type: research