Automatic detection of a structural chromosomal abnormality: the del(5q) deletion

Mohammed El Amine Bechar; Jean-Marie Guyader; Marwa El Bouz; Nathalie Douet-Guilbert; Ayman Al Falou; Marie-Bérengère Troadec

doi:10.1117/12.2665703

13 June 2023 Automatic detection of a structural chromosomal abnormality: the del(5q) deletion

Mohammed El Amine Bechar, Jean-Marie Guyader, Marwa El Bouz, Nathalie Douet-Guilbert, Ayman Al Falou, Marie-Bérengère Troadec

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Proceedings Volume 12527, Pattern Recognition and Tracking XXXIV; 125270O (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2665703
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2023, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Cancer, hematological malignancies and inherited genetic diseases can be diagnosed by detecting chromosome abnormalities. This detection is crucial for the management and follow-up of these diseases. Biologically, there are two categories of chromosome abnormalities: either in their number or in their structure. The process of karyotyping involves creating an ordered representation of the 23 pairs of chromosomes. Each given pair presents a specific band pattern, where both chromosomes are identical, in normal cases. Karyotype images are manually analyzed by qualified cytogeneticists to detect any changes on chromosomes. Based on computer vision methods, it is possible to automate the detection of chromosome abnormalities, which can assist cytogeneticists in the diagnosis process. In the literature, little research has been done to automate the detection of structural abnormalities based on computer vision techniques. In this study, we are interested in the detection of a specific abnormality: the deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5, named del(5q) deletion. We focused our work on the use of the convolutional neural network (CNN) approach, which has shown its ability to provide reliable solutions in computer vision problems. On a collected database, we trained three CNN models to test their ability to differentiate between a healthy and an deleted chromosome 5. The highest performance was provided by VGG19, achieving an accuracy of 98.66%, a sensitivity of 89.33% and specificity of 100%.

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Mohammed El Amine Bechar, Jean-Marie Guyader, Marwa El Bouz, Nathalie Douet-Guilbert, Ayman Al Falou, and Marie-Bérengère Troadec "Automatic detection of a structural chromosomal abnormality: the del(5q) deletion", Proc. SPIE 12527, Pattern Recognition and Tracking XXXIV, 125270O (13 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2665703

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