MarrowQuant 2.0: A Digital Pathology Workflow Assisting Bone Marrow Evaluation in Experimental and Clinical Hematology.
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serval:BIB_352A9711DE44
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
Institution
Title
MarrowQuant 2.0: A Digital Pathology Workflow Assisting Bone Marrow Evaluation in Experimental and Clinical Hematology.
Journal
Modern pathology
ISSN
1530-0285 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0893-3952
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
36
Number
4
Pages
100088
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Bone marrow (BM) cellularity assessment is a crucial step in the evaluation of BM trephine biopsies for hematologic and nonhematologic disorders. Clinical assessment is based on a semiquantitative visual estimation of the hematopoietic and adipocytic components by hematopathologists, which does not provide quantitative information on other stromal compartments. In this study, we developed and validated MarrowQuant 2.0, an efficient, user-friendly digital hematopathology workflow integrated within QuPath software, which serves as BM quantifier for 5 mutually exclusive compartments (bone, hematopoietic, adipocytic, and interstitial/microvasculature areas and other) and derives the cellularity of human BM trephine biopsies. Instance segmentation of individual adipocytes is realized through the adaptation of the machine-learning-based algorithm StarDist. We calculated BM compartments and adipocyte size distributions of hematoxylin and eosin images obtained from 250 bone specimens, from control subjects and patients with acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome, at diagnosis and follow-up, and measured the agreement of cellularity estimates by MarrowQuant 2.0 against visual scores from 4 hematopathologists. The algorithm was capable of robust BM compartment segmentation with an average mask accuracy of 86%, maximal for bone (99%), hematopoietic (92%), and adipocyte (98%) areas. MarrowQuant 2.0 cellularity score and hematopathologist estimations were highly correlated (R <sup>2</sup> = 0.92-0.98, intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = 0.98; interobserver ICC = 0.96). BM compartment segmentation quantitatively confirmed the reciprocity of the hematopoietic and adipocytic compartments. MarrowQuant 2.0 performance was additionally tested for cellularity assessment of specimens prospectively collected from clinical routine diagnosis. After special consideration for the choice of the cellularity equation in specimens with expanded stroma, performance was similar in this setting (R <sup>2</sup> = 0.86, n = 42). Thus, we conclude that these validation experiments establish MarrowQuant 2.0 as a reliable tool for BM cellularity assessment. We expect this workflow will serve as a clinical research tool to explore novel biomarkers related to BM stromal components and may contribute to further validation of future digitalized diagnostic hematopathology workstreams.
Keywords
Humans, Bone Marrow/pathology, Workflow, Bone Marrow Cells/pathology, Hematology, Bone Marrow Examination, adiposity, bone marrow, cellularity, digital pathology, hematopathology, open-source, stroma
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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