Summary
With advancement of immunotherapies, there has been a paradigm shift in the standard of care for cancer treatment and in the focus of cancer research leveraging the immune system in the tumor immune microenvironment. Therefore, accurate characterization of the tumor microenvironment in each disease site is extremely important. We compared multiplex immunofluorescence assay (mIF) using multispectral microscopy and multiplex immunohistochemistry assay (mIHC). Here we report the comparison of these two assays regarding data acquisition, image analyses, and concordance in marker intensities and characterization of the microenvironment. This is the first direct comparison of mIF and mIHC using the identical slides. It provides a standardized dataset to demonstrate the equivalence of the two methods and a source that can be used to calibrate other methods. Images were taken at 20x magnification.
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We introduce a new AI-ready computational pathology dataset containing restained and co-registered digitized images from eight head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma patients. Specifically, the same tumor sections were stained with the expensive multiplex immunofluorescence (mIF) assay first and then restained with cheaper multiplex immunohistochemistry (mIHC). This is a first public dataset that demonstrates the equivalence of these two staining methods which in turn allows several use cases; due to the equivalence, our cheaper mIHC staining protocol can offset the need for expensive mIF staining/scanning which requires highly skilled lab technicians. As opposed to subjective and error-prone immune cell annotations from individual pathologists (disagreement > 50%) to drive SOTA deep learning approaches, this dataset provides objective immune and tumor cell annotations via mIF/mIHC restaining for more reproducible and accurate characterization of tumor immune microenvironment (e.g. for immunotherapy). We demonstrate the effectiveness of this dataset in three use cases: (1) IHC quantification of CD3/CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes via style transfer, (2) virtual translation of cheap mIHC stains to more expensive mIF stains, and (3) virtual tumor/immune cellular phenotyping on standard hematoxylin images. The code for stain translation is available at https://github.com/nadeemlab/DeepLIIF and the code for performing interactive deep learning whole-cell/nuclear segmentation is available at https://github.com/nadeemlab/impartial. After scanning the full images, nine regions of interest (ROIs) from each slide/Case were chosen by an experienced pathologist on both mIF and mIHC images: three in the tumor core (T), three at the tumor margin (M),and three outside in the adjacent stroma (S) area. These individual ROIs were further subdivided into four 512x512 patches with indices [0_0], [0_1], [1_0], [1_1]. The final notation for each file is Case[patient_id]_[T/M/S][1/2/3]_[ROI_index]_[Marker_name]. More details can be found in the paper.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by MSK Cancer Center Support Grant/Core Grant (P30 CA008748) and by This work has been supported by the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Grant (7JK02) and Moffitt Merit Society Award to C. H. Chung. It is also supported in part by the Moffitt’s Total Cancer Care Initiative, Collaborative Data Services, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Tissue Core Facilities at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & and Research Institute, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (P30-CA076292).
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| SlebosGhahremani, RP., Marino, J. C, Hernandez-Prera, J., de la Iglesia, J. V., Aden-Buie, G. A., Chaudhary, R., Hernandez-Prera, J. CSlebos, R. J., Chung, C. H., & GerkeNadeem, TS. A. (2020). Comparison of mIF versus mIHC for immune markers in head and neck carcinoma [Data set2023). AI-ready re-stained and co-registered multiplex dataset for head-and-neck carcinoma (HNSCC-mIF-mIHC-comparison) (Version 2) [dataset]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.2020.T90F-WB82 |
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| Ghahremani, P., Marino, J., Hernandez-Prera, J., de la Iglesia, J. V., Slebos, R. J., Chung, C. H., & Nadeem, S. (2023). An AI-Ready Multiplex Staining Dataset for Reproducible and Accurate Characterization of Tumor Immune Microenvironment (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2305.16465This work has been supported by the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Grant (7JK02) and Moffitt Merit Society Award to C. H. Chung. It is also supported in part by the Moffitt’s Total Cancer Care Initiative, Collaborative Data Services, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Tissue Core Facilities at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (P30-CA076292). |
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