Virtual immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of unlabeled tissue using deep learning (Conference Presentation)
Bijie Bai, Hongda Wang, Yuzhu Li, Kevin d. Haan, Francesco Colonnese, Yujie Wan, Jingyi Zuo, Ngan Doan, Xiaoran Zhang, Yijie Zhang, Jingxi Li, Wenjie Dong, Morgan Angus Darrow, Elham Kamangar, Han Sung Lee, Yair Rivenson, Aydogan Özcan · 2022
Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is routinely performed on breast cancer cases to guide immunotherapies and help predict the prognosis of breast tumors. We present a label-free virtual HER2 staining method enabled by deep learning as an alternative digital staining method. Our blinded, quantitative analysis based on three board-certified breast pathologists revealed that evaluating HER2 scores based on virtually-stained HER2 whole slide images (WSIs) is as accurate as standard IHC-stained WSIs. This virtual HER2 staining can be extended to other IHC biomarkers to significantly improve disease diagnostics and prognostics.