Histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) can reveal significant inter-hospital variability such as illumination, color or optical artifacts. These variations, caused by the use of different protocols across medical centers (staining, scanner), can strongly harm algorithms generalization on unseen protocols. This motivates the development of new methods to limit such loss of generalization. In this paper, to enhance robustness on unseen target protocols, we propose a new test-time data augmentation based on multi domain image-to-image translation. It allows to project images from unseen protocol into each source domain before classifying them and ensembling the predictions. This test-time augmentation method results in a significant boost of performances for domain generalization. To demonstrate its effectiveness, our method has been evaluated on two different histopathology tasks where it outperforms conventional domain generalization, standard/H &E specific color augmentation/normalization and standard test-time augmentation techniques. Our code is publicly available at https://gitlab.com/vitadx/articles/test-time-i2i-translation-ensembling.
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Scalbert, M., Vakalopoulou, M., & Couzinié-Devy, F. (2022). Test-Time Image-to-Image Translation Ensembling Improves Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Histopathology. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 13432 LNCS, pp. 120–129). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16434-7_12
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