Deep learning analysis of mid-infrared microscopic imaging data for the
diagnosis and classification of human lymphomas
Abstract
The present study presents an alternative analytical workflow that
combines mid-infrared (MIR) microscopic imaging and deep learning to
diagnose human lymphoma and differentiate between small and large cell
lymphoma. We could show that using a deep learning approach to analyze
MIR hyperspectral data obtained from benign and malignant lymph node
pathology results in high accuracy for correct classification, learning
the distinct region of 3900 cm-1 to 850 cm-1. The accuracy is above 95%
for every pair of malignant lymphoid tissue and still above 90% for the
distinction between benign and malignant lymphoid tissue for binary
classification. These results demonstrate that a preliminary diagnosis
and subtyping of human lymphoma could be streamlined by applying a deep
learning approach to analyze MIR spectroscopic data.