Driving Training-Based Optimization- Multitask Fuzzy C-Means (DTBO-MFCM) Image Segmentation and Robust Deep Learning Algorithm for Multicenter Breast Histopathological Images

The second most frequent disease in terms of diagnoses is breast cancer, which has had tremendous impact on women’s lives all around the world. The most frequent cause is a tumour formed as a result of abnormal cell divisions of tissues in the breast where rate of growth and proliferation rate assessed using mitotic activity indices. Image segmentation is regarded as a crucial stage in the processing of images. One of the often-used techniques for picture segmentation is FCM (Fuzzy C-Means) clustering. However, there are problems with this approach, including sensitivity to beginning values, becoming stuck in local optimas, and being unable to tell among objects with identical colour intensity. In order to provide improved generalisation over hitherto unexplored domains, the FMD (Fourier Mitosis Detection) technique has also been added to the shift issue in this study. The three components of the FMD method are fuzzy segmentation-based mitotic detection, pixel-level annotation creation, and Fourier-based data augmentation. For segmentation-based mitosis identification, DTBO-MFCM (Driving Training-Based Optimisation- Multitask Fuzzy C-Means) clustering has been introduced. The DTBO algorithm offers a greater capacity for exploration while looking for the optimum answer to a problem, which avoids the algorithm from becoming stuck in local optimas. This technique is carried out at the image level, therefore there is no need for training and it can be put into use very quickly. The thorough mitosis identification procedure is then carried out on these pictures after they have been cropped into tiny patches. The comparison experiments with other mitosis detections also prove proposed system’s efficacy.


I. INTRODUCTION
The most frequent and major cause of mortality for women is breast cancer.Early detection of breast cancers is crucial for lowering the death rate [1].The Nottingham grading system The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Jinhua Sheng .has been extensively utilised to categorise breast cancers according to their grade.Three biomarkers are used in this technique to grade breast cancer in histopathology pictures where tubule developments, and mitotic cells indicate disease conditions.Mitotic cell counts are crucial, since the prognosis of tumours is strongly correlated with the mitotic cell division process [2].In actuality, high-resolution microscopes are typically used to visually check histopathology images of breasts for mitotic cell identifications.Inaccurate detections made by a pathologist with less training might have catastrophic repercussions as they are time-consuming, and arbitrary.For pathologists, this repetitious activity is exceedingly time-and labor-intensive.The varied appearances of mitotic cells also contribute to a substantial intra-and inter-observer variability [3], [4].An essential factor in grading and diagnosing breast cancer is the quantity of mitotic cells with which tumor growths and spread imply significant impacts on correct diagnosis, patient's prognosis, and course of therapies.However, the majority of the time now, mitosis is detected manually in breast cancer slices.It is absolutely necessary to develop automated mitotic detection technologies to reduce laborious manual counting and the vast variation between observers and to aid pathologists in making quick, precise, and repeatable aided diagnoses.AI (Artificial intelligence) approaches have recently had a significant influence on every aspect of life, including medicine.It does, however, provide certain difficulties.Mitotic cells, for example, have textures and morphological characteristics similar to normal cellsing it difficult to distinguish them without pathological expertise or use of high-resolution microscopes.The resemblance of apoptotic cell's to mitotic cells, manage to increase the complexity of identification.Mitotic processes with four stages and unique characteristics need to be identified using trustworthy techniques.The usual data-preparation environment's upkeep is another significant problem.Because errors in data collecting and scanning result in poor performance, biopsy, slide preparation, and scanning processes must be carried out properly.
Various models of pathological automations have been proposed.DCNN (Deep Convolution Neural Networks) have made significant strides recently, and their impressive results in image segmentation, detection, and classification have propelled their usage in medical imaging issues [5], [6].A class of representational learning algorithms known as DCNN automatically extracts the necessary data from unprocessed pictures without spending time manually building feature descriptors [7].Classifications of breast tissues into normal, benign, situ, and invasive carcinomas assist in detections of cancer metastasis [8], [9], quantifications of lymphocytes [9], demarcations of tumour regions [10], segmentations of cell nuclei, and other histopathology issues have been successfully addressed with CNN (Convolution Neural Networks) models [11].
Thus, automated detections of mitotic cells can reduce workloads on pathologists and assist them in evaluations.The usage of CNN based methods has plenty of scope in these areas [12], [13].The unusual structure of mitotic nuclei and variations in cell texture throughout various morphological stages make their automated identification difficult.Mitosis detections are and multicenter cohort validations not reliable due to erroneous segmentations of mitotic regions.The extensive domain shift in the field of histopathological pictures is not properly taken into account by these approaches.
While most techniques concentrate on getting mitotic counts through mitosis detection, segmenting the mitosis as a whole may be advantageous since it may readily facilitate mitosis counts and be used to examine mitosis characteristics.In order to provide stronger generalisation over hitherto unexplored areas, the FMD method has also been applied to shift the problem on breast histopathology pictures.Postprocessing of the segmentation map predicts where the cells will be.For the purpose of capturing more intricate morphological properties of cells, it has been utilised to transform the detection issue into a semantic segmentation problem.
Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering is an unsupervised technique that has been successfully applied to feature analysis, and classifier designs in fields such as geology, medical imaging, target recognition, and image segmentation.Nevertheless, the performance of traditional FCM still requires additional development.The core issue is sensitive to noise and the initialization of cluster centroids in image segmentation.It has been solved recently by methods like FCM that incorporates spatial information [14], spatial fuzzy clustering with level set [15], and interactive approach based on the spatial Fuzzy C-Means (sFCM) [16].These methods deal with a single task.It has been solved by using multitask learning.Multitask learning learns related tasks simultaneously and shares useful information, such as representation and parameters among related tasks.Multitask learning strategy improves the clustering performance and obtains higher accuracy [17].Hua et al. [18] designed a multi-view fuzzy clustering algorithm to extract multiple feature data from the original image.It has been proposed that DTBO-MFCM, which aims to detect cells using object segmentation.Channel-wise multi-scale features are produced via an attention method, enabling networks by to extract robust features using FMD algorithm from MItosisDOmainGeneralisation Challenge 2021 (MIDOG 2021).

II. LITERATURE REVIEW
In order to take use of the strengths of both types of networks, Wollmann et al. [11] introduced methods of deep learning for cell segmentations that blend CNN and GRNN (Gated Recurrent Neural Network) over several picture scales.A unique focused loss function is provided for mitotic identification in order to strengthen the training and enhance segmentation.A distributed strategy is provided for the integrated neural network's best training.The demanding data of glioblastoma cell nuclei are introduced to the proposed method, and a quantitative comparison with cutting-edge techniques is carried out.The localised active contour model by Beevi et al. [19] suggested using Krill Herd Algorithm accurately separates cell nuclei from background stroma.Many classifiers based on Deep belief networks divide identified mitotic/non-mitotic cell groups.The study's proposed approach was evaluated on the MITOS datasets and pictures from RCC (Regional Cancer institute), Thiruvananthapuram (A pioneering cancer diagnosis and research institute in India).Saha et al. [20] presented deep learning architectures encompassing two completely connected layers, 4 max-pooling layers, 5 convolution layers, and four activation units ((Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU)) for convolution layers.Dropout layer were introduced after first entirely connected layers to prevent over fits of data.Most handcrafted traits were morphologically textural, and intense by nature.The accuracy, recall, and F-score of the suggested architecture have all demonstrated improvements of 92.00%, 88.00%, and 90.00%.This paradigm could direct pathologists of all levels of researches for netter understanding and evaluations of breast cancers genesis.
Beevi et al. [21] examined workings of transfer learning in mitotic detections.Class labels of cell nuclei were forecasted by pre-trained CNN classifiers and random forests classifiers updated fully connected layers for obtaining discriminant characteristics from nuclei.CNN correctly categorized cell nuclei with minimal data and the study classification accuracies with adjustments of pre-trained model and pre-processes.Their CNN model outperformed other detection methods with at least an increase of 15% increase in F-scores.Faster R-CNN (Faster Region CNN) and DCNN proposed by Mahmood et al. [22] identified multi-stage mitotic cells from breast cancer datasets; ICPR 2012 and ICPR 2014 (MITOS-ATYPIA-14).Their experimental results showed that Faster R-CNN methods achieved better results and outperformed previous methods in the values of precision (0.876), recall (0.841), and F1-measure (0.858) on ICPR 2012 dataset and 0.848, 0.583 and 0.691 for ICPR 2014 dataset.Furthermore, the approach's generalizability was evaluated using tumour proliferation assessments challenge 2016 (TUPAC16) dataset where it was observed that the performances were satisfactory confirming generalizability of the proposed strategy.
Sebai et al. [23] developed a reliable method leveraging on deep learning architecture, Mask RCNN (Region Based CNN) for automatic detections of mitoses from histological breast cancer slides.In pixel-level annotated datasets, the study carried out mitosis localizations and classifications for detections and instance based segmentations.Weak annotations of mitosis were also used in segmentations to forecast mitotic mask labels.Both sparsely annotated ICPR 2014 challenge datasets and fully annotated ICPR 2012 grand challenge datasets were used in the study to evaluate their suggested technique.Sohail et al. [24] introduced multi-phase mitosis detections based on DCNN ''MP-MitDet'' where the procedures included label refiners, tissue level mitotic area selections, blob analyses, and cell-level refinements.To express weak labels with some semblance of semi-semantic information for DCNN training, automatic label refiner is presented.Complex instance-based detections and segmentations were used to examine tissue cells in blobs for mitotic regions using modified CNN classifiers called ''MitosRes-CNN'' which filtered false mitoses in Proliferation Assessment Challenge 2016 (TUPAC16) dataset.Promising findings point to the proposed framework's ability to generalise well and learn defining characteristics from diverse mitotic nuclei.
A completely automated technique for tumour growth prediction using mitotic counting was published by Nateghi et al. [25] using entire slide pictures.In order to choose the regions with high mitotic activity from the entire slide of photos, approaches on deep learning for detecting regions of interest followed by a collection of DNN (Deep Neural Networks) is presented to identify mitosis in certain regions.The final tumour proliferation score was predicted by SVM (Support Vector Machine) from Tumour Proliferation Assessment Challenge (TUPAC16) dataset and their schema outperformed all prior methods with results of 73.81% F-measure and 0.612 weighted kappa.Experiments show that the suggested method significantly increases the tumour growth forecast accuracy and offers trustworthy help for healthcare.At the 2019 CVPR workshop on computer vision for microscopy image processing, Contrast based microscopy was proposed by Su et al. [26] for mitosis detections from picture sequences (https://www.iti-tju.org/mitosisdetection).The goal of this competition is to encourage research on the detection of spatiotemporal mitosis in microscope pictures.
For the mitosis identification challenge in this competition, a sizable time-lapse phase-contrast microscopy picture dataset (C2C12-16) is introduced.More annotated mitotic events and a wider range of cell culture settings may be found in C2C12-16.Ten different mitosis detection techniques were entered into the competition and tested in four distinct cell culture settings in the C2C12-16 cell line.Discuss a workable path for mitotic detection and detail all techniques in this benchmark after doing a comprehensive investigation of their performances.
The FMDet (Fourier-based mitotic detection) technique, which Wang et al. [27] devised, is a generalizable and reliable mitosis identification system that has been independently evaluated on multicenter breast histopathology images.Mitotic nuclei were annotated at pixel levels by intersecting trained nuclear segmentation masks with MIDOG 2021 challenge bounding boxes.CNN structure combined with channel-wise multi-scale attention mechanism created powerful feature extractors for segmenting mitotic cells.By swapping low-level frequencies between spectra and considering low-level spectrums have no impacts on high-level semantic perceptions, Fourier-based data augmentation approach eliminated domain disparities.ReCasNet may be applied generally to various two-stage object identification pipelines, and it should help deep learning models perform better across a range of digital pathology applications.
A quick and accurate approach based on Transfer Learning was presented by Wahab et al. [29].They first utilized pre-trained CNN for segmentations, Hybrid-CNN with Weight Transfers and special layers for mitotic classification employed Transfer Learning principle to deliver balanced datasets for classifications.Centroids were utilised to annotate mitotic nuclei automatically and segmentations separated mitotic nuclei.After training on segmentation module's patches, detection module completed the final detections adjusting on the basis of Transfer Learning, reduced training times, providing optimal initial weights with enhanced detections obtaining 71.30% (F-measure) and 76.00% (area under precision-recall curves) for mitosis detections.
Banerjee et al. [30] showed multiple methods for mitosis identification using the DSB (Data Science Bowl) and the publicly accessible MITOS dataset.To conduct the picture segmentation, a U-Net architecture made up of convolution and de-convolution layers are used.The You Only Look Once (YOLO) technique is utilised to conduct object recognition on the segmented picture, resulting in the formation of bounding boxes around the nucleus.The categorization of nuclei into mitotic or amitotic states is the next step, and it is accomplished with the aid of a single class SVM.The datasets' findings demonstrated that the technique used produced accurate mitotic identification on histology pictures.An automated mitotic and nuclear segmentation approach was put out by Razavi et al. [31] which identified multiple H&E (Hematoxylin and Eosin) cases of breast cancers from images.The schema used conditional GAN for segregating mitoses from nuclei while optimizations included use of hyper-parameters and addition of focal losses.

III. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
To provide greater generalisation over unexplored regions, the FMD algorithm has also been applied to the shift problem on breast histopathology pictures.Post-processing of the segmentation map predicts where the cells will be.For the purpose of capturing more intricate morphological properties of cells, it has been utilized to transform the detection issue into a semantic segmentation problem.For picture segmentation that has a larger capacity for exploration, DBO-MFCM has been proposed.This segmentation, was developed to identify nuclei's pixel borders, exhibiting good performances on diverse histopathology multi=tissue image data.Figure 1 shows overall flow of the proposed system,

A. FOURIER-BASED DATA AUGMENTATION
Fourier-based mitosis detection has been suggested as a solution to the domain shift issue because to its potential for domain generalisation.The rationale for this is because high-level semantic perception is unaffected by fluctuations in the spectrums of low frequency amplitudes [27].MIDOG 2022 challenge's data was first transformed using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) in the Fourier-based data augmentation process.The source and reference photos belonged to two distinct domains.To acquire correspondingly new images, picture's low-frequency spectrum in the source domain were replaced with reference ones, and then inverse FFT were executed on new frequency spectrums of source domains.The original source image's labels were maintained on generated images.Using this method, styles of reference domains were transferred to source domains without any modifications to images or their bordering areas.
Two domains were selected at random as sources and references for Fourier-based data augmentations.Assuming there are M domains for algorithm development, source domains with images i=1 and images in reference domains i=1 , where x i ∈ R H ×W ×3 is an image, N s and N r represent counts of image sources and references and applicati on of FFT for data augmentations can represented as i=1 .For images x, FFT computations can be represented as equation (1), where F A = |F(u, v)| and F P = ̸ F (u, v) represent amplitudes and phase spectrums, respectively, which maintain similar sizes as that of image x.New data x g is generated using Fourier based data augmentation algorithm which replace spectrums with low amplitude frequencies of image sources using image references and FFT inverses depicted as by F −1 recover image sources as new x g based on Equation (2), where M β ∈ R H ×W ×3 stands for masks for obtaining low-frequencies with a value of 1 in central regions and 0 in remaining regions.β ∈ (0, 1) controls mask ranges using:

B. PIXEL-LEVEL ANNOTATION GENERATION
Bounding box labels get transformed into pixel annotations for segmenting mitotic areas in nuclei.HoVer-Net based segmentations identify nuclei's pixel boundaries.The proposed scheme when tested on many independent haematoxylin and eosin stained histopathology images, used multi-task learning to learn about multiple-tissues and segment and classify nuclear areas.Additionally, overlapping nuclei are distinguished using horizontal and vertical distance maps for more accurate segmentation.Directly infer the nuclear segmentation trained HoVer-Net.due to its superior segmentation capacity, which does away with the need for nuclear annotations.

C. SEGMENTATION MASK GENERATION
A fuzzy clustering technique based on the objective function is called FCM.It is an iterative process of optimisation.Different histopathology pictures exhibit extremely similar cluster centers throughout the clustering procedure.The centroids of the clusters indicate associated data from several histopathology pictures [18].The development of cluster analysis gains from it.However, the conventional singletask FCM only works in single-task scenarios and uses a little amount of data.The benefit of multitask technology is that it can mine the public data included in several histopathology pictures.The collaborative learning of several histological pictures is made possible by the multitask clustering technique.It utilizes each task's data information to the fullest extent possible.Better clustering effects in the histopathology pictures should increase the contribution to public As a result, the MFCM (Multitask Fuzzy C-Means) method with the capacity for adaptive modification has been introduced.Suppose a dataset has T pictures, each of which has N t pixels.The following is the proposed objective function: where x i,t is the i th image of the t th dataset, v j,t is the j th mitosis cluster center pixel of the t th dataset, and Z = {z 1 , z 2 , . . ., z D } is the non-mitosis cluster center vector of all images, a i,t , b j,t , and c d be the Lagrange multipliers.U (t) = u ij,t C t ×N t is the private membership matrix of the t th dataset.p jd,t represents the membership value of mitosis cluster center v j,t to the d th non-mitosis cluster center z d .D is the counts of public cluster centers.γ is a balance parameter to control the influence of the non-mitosis clustering term.c is used to adjust the penalty corresponding to the weights of each image.W (t) = {w 1,t , w 2,t , . . ., w D,t } is the weight vector of the t th image.w d,t represents the importance of the t th image to the d th non-mitosis cluster.The objective function's first component includes T independent FCM clustering.The first section seeks to teach the cluster center and within-image division matrix.The second section seeks to understand all pictures' non-mitosis information.It learns the non-mitosis partition matrix and non-mitosis cluster center using the FCM objective function.The Shannon entropy regularisation term makes up the third component.Choosing the best weights for each image is the goal of the third section.Despite the fact that distinct photos include non-mitosis information, all images differ from one another.For instance, each image has a varied clustering efficacy and is subject to varying degrees of noise.Therefore, rather than maintaining consistency, the impact of various pictures should be altered in accordance with the current circumstance.This study's adaptive weights w d,t control impacts of t th images on d th cluster centers by considering differences.A greater weight value is assigned if there is a clearer association between the mitotic cluster center and the non-mitosis clustering center.This indicates 136354 VOLUME 11, 2023 Authorized licensed use limited to the terms of the applicable license agreement with IEEE.Restrictions apply.
that the image contributes more to the public cluster center.A smaller weight parameter is provided, on the other hand, if the connection is fuzzifier with non-mitosis cluster centers.
Through adaptive weight modification, the technique is able to maximize the use of non-mitosis information from various pictures and enhance clustering performance.The private membership value u ij,t iterative formulation for the t th image is as follows: Similarly, the updating equation ( 6) of the membership value p jd,t is as follows, According to equation ( 4), mitosis clustering centroid v j,t is obtained as following by equation ( 7), Similarly, the updating equation of the non-mitosis clustering centroid z d is as follows, According to T t=1 w d,t = 1 and equation ( 9), can obtain the optimal weight w d,t using steps similar to optimize the membership matrix as follows, In order to calculate the distances between mitotic and non-mitotic regions, a novel metaheuristic approach known as DTBO has been created.In equation ( 4), the distances between mitotic and non-mitotic areas were separated into pixels.This technique simulates human behaviours of driving.It is made up of instructors and new drivers.The population matrices in Equation ( 10), are distance calculations of MFCM clustering, are proposed solutions for DTBO members.Equation ( 11) is used to randomly initialize pixel member positions in pictures.
where X stands for DTBO population, X i implies i th distances between mitosis and non-mitosis pixels, x i,j represents j th pixel's value determined by i th image, N depicts DTBO population sizes, m is counts of pixels, r stands for random numbers in the interval [1,0], lb j and ub j are lower and upper bounds of j th pixels in images correspondingly.The vectors in Equation ( 12) are objective function's values.
where F i represents objective function values of i th image while F signifies their vectors.Based on comparisons of objective function values, population members with greatest values for objective functions are referred to as the best members (Xbest).Candidate solutions in DTBO are updated at the following three stages: (i) The driving instructor instructs the learner driver; (ii) the learner driver imitates the teacher's skills; and (iii) the learner driver practices.
The trainee driver selects the driving teacher they want to work with, and that instructor then instructs them on driving throughout the first part of the DTBO update.In the DTBO population, a small percentage of the best pixels are classified as driving teachers, while the others are deemed new drivers.This will provide the DTBO more exploration flexibility over finding the ideal location during a global search.members of the DTBO are chosen as driving instructors in iterations based on the comparison of the values of the goal function, as given in Equation (13).
where DI is the matrix of driving instructors, DI i is the i th driving instructor, DI i,j is the j th dimension, and N DI = 0.1N •(1−t/T ) implies counts of driving instructors, where T stands for max.counts of iterations and t the current iteration.Equation ( 14) is used to determine each pixel's new location during the DTBO phase.Equation ( 15) then states that if the new location increases the value of the goal function which replaces prior ones.
where X P1 i stands for computed status of i th images based on DTBO's first phase, x P1 i,j is represents their j th dimension, F P1 i is implies objective function values computed based on MFCM clustering distances, I ∈ {1, 2} stands for randomized value selected from sets while r ∈ [0, 1] represents random numbers in the interval, DI k i , where k i represents randomly selected values and {1,2,. . .,N DI }, represents randomly selected driving instructors for training i th images, DI k i,j is its j th pixel, and F DI k i is its objective function value.

3) PHASE 2: LEARNER DRIVER PATTERNING FROM INSTRUCTOR SKILLS (EXPLORATION)
The novice driver is supposed to imitate the teacher in the second stage of the DTBO upgrade.Equation ( 16) is used to create a new position based on the linear combination of each member and the teacher in order to mathematically approximate this idea.According to Equation (17), the new pixel position will take the place of the old one if it increases the value of the goal function.
x P2 i,j = P.x i,j + (1 where X P2 i implies i th image's computed status based on DTBO's second phase, x P2 i,j represent their j th dimensions, i stands for objective function values while patterning indices P are given by Equation (18).
DTBO updates are based on trainee driver's individual practices in order to strengthen and increase driving capabilities.This phase is designed for participants to find more favourable positions with local searches around their present locations.DTBO phases are theoretically represented in Equation (19) where random pixel positions are first established near population members.As a result, Equation (20) indicates new locations replace previous positions, increasing values of objective functions.
where X P3 i is the new calculated status for the ith image based on the third phase of DTBO, x P3 i,j is its jth dimension, F P3 i is its objective function value, r is a random real counts of the interval [1, 0], R is the constant set to the value 0.05, t is the counter of iterations and T is the maximum counts of iterations.

5) REPETITION PROCESS AND PSEUDO-CODE OF DTBO
DTBO iterations are over on updates of population members based on distances between mitosis and non-mitosis areas.The algorithm enters following DTBO iterations with the modified populations and to obtain maximum iterations counts, update procedures are performed in accordance with firsts through third phase's stages and Equations ( 13) to (20).Best candidate mitosis recorded throughout executions are presented as solutions on deployment of DTBO.Algorithm 2 presents pseudo code of DTBO method:

6) ALGORITHM 2. PSEUDO-CODE OF DTBO FOR DISTANCE CALCULATION
Input: Information about the optimization issue as input.
Output: The best candidate solution as determined by DTBO is the output.
1. Modify N and T. 2. Set the DTBO population's starting point and assess the goal function (the distance between picture pixels).3.For t = 1 to T 4. For i = 1 to N Phase 1: Exploratory training by the driving instructors.

Based on a comparison of the objective function (dis-
tance between picture pixels), determine the driving instructor matrices.6. Pick a random driving instructor from the DI matrices.
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IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
The datasets used for model development and external evaluation are initially described in this section.The detailed representation of the experimental settings and assessment measures follows.Comparing the best techniques from the MIDOG 2021 competition with cutting-edge mitotic detection techniques is the next step.After that, ablation tests are conducted to confirm the viability of our core tactics.The comparison with equivalent algorithms using outside datasets is then demonstrated.The strategy for minimising domain shifts (i.e., the FFT-based data augmentation) is then put to the test against several stain normalisation techniques in a comparison experiment.

A. DATASET
This study makes use of the publicly available MIDOG21 dataset, which was acquired from https://midog2021.grandchallenge.org/.As indicated in Table 1, the proposed mitosis detection technique was created on the training set for the MIDOG 2021 challenge and evaluated on the MIDOG21 test.To create methods for resolving domain differences brought on by various WSI scanners, the MIDOG21 dataset was created.MIDOG 2021 competition and won first place.MIDOG21 was chosen in succession from 2017 and 2018.As a result, there are no duplicate samples in these datasets.2021 MIDOG competition makes mitosis data available including 280 WSI of breast cancers gathered from Netherland's UMC Utrecht which were made available for developing reliable algorithms that could minimize discrepancies erupting from WSI scanners.
Tissues having an area of 2 mm2 are scanned at a magnification of 40x in the MIDOG 2021 challenge, creating WSIs with a size of roughly 8000 × 8000 pixels (depending on the scanner).These scanned WSI had no overlapping instances in either the training or test sets.The training dataset includes a total 200 WSI was obtained from four scanners (Hamamatsu XR nanozoomer 2.0, Hamamatsu S360

B. EXPERIMENTAL SETUPS
The images are initially separated into 512 × 512 pixel chunks.The segmentation model is trained using MIDOG 2021 training data after being initialised with ImageNet weights.The distribution of data across mitotic and non-mitotic areas is quite unequal.Using a random sampling method, make sure that the proportion of mitosis-positive to mitosis-negative samples in a mini-batch is 6:4.The variety of the training data is increased by using real-time data augmentation.Included is random scaling, colour distortion in HSV space, horizontal, vertical, and 90-degree flipping.The Adam optimizer is used to improve the model with a weight decay of 0.0001 (Kingma and Ba, 2014).The cosine annealing approach is used to alter the learning rate with a starting learning rate of 0.0003.

C. EVALUATION METRIC
The F1 score, which is a weighted average of accuracy and recall, is a commonly used assessment measure in the current mitotic detection investigations (for example, in the MIDOG 2021 challenge).As a result, the following definitions of precision, recall, and F1 score are used in this study.
where N TP stands for the numbers of cells that are mitotic and are accurately categorised as such.The symbols N FP and N FN stand for the numbers of pictures that were mistakenly categorised as being in mitosis or as being normal, respectively.Detected items were True Positives (TP) when Euclidian distances between centers and their corresponding segmentation map centers was lesser than 7.5 m whereas detections > 7.5 metres were False positives (FP).False Negative (FN) samples are any things that are not detected within 7.5 metres of the sample site.

D. ANALYSIS METRICS
The approach delivers the best performance, exceeding DTBO-MFCM by about 86.62% in terms of F1 score, as shown in Table 2. End-to-end segmentation strategy surpasses DTBO-MFCM method by around +6.5%.The primary cause of this significant performance increase is that all prior approaches failed to adequately account for the domain changes between the training data and the unobserved test data.Only the MaskMitosis approach employs a stain normalisation procedure, according to their publicly available source codes, to ensure a superior generalisation potential.It can be shown that the MaskMitosis approach performs better (+2.40%) when compared to the MitosRes-CNN.
As shown in Figure 2, drawing rectangle of specific sizes around centroids of segmentation mask results in desired Results of semantic segmentation converted into bounding boxes.The right data sources determined both bounding boxes (green and blue) to show mitoses and negatives (samples similar to mitosis), respectively.This work's projections are yellow bounding boxes where sub-figures represent WSI sub-regions.The Hamamatsu XR nanozoomer 2.0, Hamamatsu S360 (0.5 NA), and Aperio ScanScope CS2 scanners are used to gather the MIDOG21 instances shown in subfigures (a) through (c).
Figure 3 compares the precision outcomes of several segmentation techniques.In comparison to existing approaches such Mask R-CNN Detector, MitosRes-CNN, and End-End Segmentation, the suggested DTBO-MFCM clustering algorithm achieves superior precision results of 85.26% (See Table 2).
Table 3 contrasts instance masks and bounding box (Bbox) masks for mitosis detection.The Bbox be obtained by locating the inner tangent circles of the bounding box annotations provided by the MIDOG 2021 competition organizers.The instance masks, which are finely detailed pixel-level annotations for mitotic nuclei as opposed to the coarseBBox masks, are created by intersecting the nucleus segmentation findings with the ground truth bounding boxes.
Figure 6 compares the outcomes of several annotation approaches in terms of accuracy, recall, and F1-Score.In comparison to previous approaches like U-Net, U-Net(SEResNeXt50), and U-Net(SEResNeXt50+SK), the proposed DTBO-MFCM clustering algorithm achieves greater accuracy, recall, and F1-Score values of 84.52%, 85.40%, and 84.96% (See Table 3).

V. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
In order to produce a variety of domain-neutral pictures, Fourier-based data augmentation is introduced in this article.In ablation studies, the value of data augmentation methods has been demonstrated.HoVer-Net uses multi-task learning to carry out nuclear segmentation and classification at the same time, which improves the feature extraction process.For segmentation, MFCM algorithm with adaptive adjustment capacity has been implemented.Using an MFCM, turn the detection job into a semantic segmentation one where the mitotic nuclei's fine pixel-level bounds are determined by the course bounding box annotations.When compared to bounding-box-based segmentation, instance-based semantic segmentation with MFCM and DTBO performs better.It has been developed to calculate the distance between mitosis and non-mitosis using the MFCM method, and it is based on a simulation of human behaviour used in driving instruction.The MIDOG 2021 competition examined the DTBO-MFCM algorithm, which won first place.The comparative trials with cutting-edge mitotic detection techniques also show the efficacy of the remedy.Evidence for model generalisation and repeatability across multi-center cohorts is provided by the matching experimental findings.By integrating self-supervised learning with extensive amounts of unlabeled data, future work will try to increase the generalizability of the model.
The proposed FMDet algorithm won the MIDOG 2021 competition.ReCasNet (Refine Cascade Network), an improved deep learning method was introduced by Piansaddhayanaon et al., where window relocations reduced false positive counts.Their second model based on depp learning re-cropped objects for correcting misaligned center objects.The study's enhanced data choices reduce mismatched training outputs for classifications.The proposed ReCasNet was evaluated for presence of mitotic celss in canine cutaneous mast cell tumours and canine mammary carcinomas on 2 datasets with MAPE (mean absolute percentage error) value reductions of up to 44.10% and F1 scores for mitotic cell detection up to 4.80% of a percentage point higher for MC prediction.

FIGURE 1 .
FIGURE 1. Overall flow of the proposed system for mitosis detection.
(0.5 NA), Hamamatsu S360 (0.5 NA), and Hamamatsu S360 (0.5 NA).The training dataset is made up of 50 WSIs from two scanners (Aperio ScanScope CS2 and Leica GT450).As seen 1 https://midog2021.grand-challenge.org/, the WSIs from the fourth scanner (Leica GT450) are not marked with mitosis.The test set comprises 80 WSIs from four scanners-Hamamatsu RS nanozoomer 2.0 and 3D Histech Panoramic 1000-as well as 20 WSIs from each scanner.Only two scanners, Nos. 1 and 4, remain from the training set.Because users cannot access the data or annotations in the test set, the assessment is conducted out by delivering the trained model to the organiser.

FIGURE 2 .
FIGURE 2. Visualization of mitosis detection results from the proposed method.

FIGURE 3 .
FIGURE 3. Precision values of comparative methods segmentations

TABLE 1 .
Data set details for model development and cross-center validation.

TABLE 2 .
Comparison with state-of-the-art methods for mitosis detection.

TABLE 3 .
Results comparison of architectures and annotation schemes on the MIDOG21.FIGURE 6. Results comparison of annotations methods.