UNITOPATHO

Histopathological characterization of colorectal polyps allows to tailor patients' management and follow up with the ultimate aim of avoiding or promptly detecting an invasive carcinoma. Colorectal polyps characterization relies on the histological analysis of tissue samples to determine the polyps malignancy and dysplasia grade. Deep neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy in medical patterns recognition, however they require large sets of annotated training images. We introduce UniToPatho, an annotated dataset of 9536 hematoxylin and eosin stained patches extracted from 292 whole-slide images, meant for training deep neural networks for colorectal polyps classification and adenomas grading. The slides are acquired through a Hamamatsu Nanozoomer S210 scanner at 20× magnification (0.4415 μm/px). Each slide belongs to a different patient and is annotated by expert pathologists, according to six classes as follows: NORM- Normal tissue;HP- Hyperplastic Polyp;TA.HG- Tubular Adenoma, High-Grade dysplasia;TA.LG- Tubular Adenoma, Low-Grade dysplasia;TVA.HG- Tubulo-Villous Adenoma, High-Grade dysplasia;TVA.LG- Tubulo-Villous Adenoma, Low-Grade dysplasia. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825111, DeepHealth Project.