Research Article

Direct Cellularity Estimation on Breast Cancer Histopathology Images Using Transfer Learning

Table 2

Evaluations of all our methods.

ModelFeatureICC (95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)

GBDT with Huber lossVGG0.91 [0.87, 0.93]0.78 [0.69, 0.79]0.90 [0.86, 0.91]
ResNet0.91 [0.87, 0.93]0.77 [0.73, 0.81]0.90 [0.87, 0.91]
Inception0.87 [0.84, 0.90]0.71 [0.65, 0.76]0.86 [0.84, 0.89]

GBDT with RankNetVGG0.91 [0.88, 0.93]0.77 [0.72, 0.81]0.89 [0.87, 0.91]
ResNet0.91 [0.88, 0.94]0.79 [0.75, 0.82]0.90 [0.88, 0.92]
Inception0.88 [0.85, 0.91]0.74 [0.70, 0.79]0.88 [0.86, 0.90]

SVRVGG0.94 [0.92, 0.95]0.80 [0.76, 0.84]0.91 [0.89, 0.93]
ResNet0.95 [0.93, 0.96]0.83 [0.79, 0.86]0.93 [0.91, 0.94]
Inception0.89 [0.85, 0.92]0.74, [0.69, 0.79]0.88 [0.85, 0.90]

Ranking SVMVGG0.91 [0.88, 0.93]0.76 [0.71, 0.80]0.89 [0.87, 0.91]
ResNet0.92 [0.89, 0.94]0.78 [0.73, 0.82]0.90 [0.88, 0.92]
Inception0.89 [0.86, 0.92]0.76 [0.71, 0.80]0.89 [0.86, 0.91]

Bold indicates the best performance in terms of the corresponding metric.