: Early ascertainment of metastatic tumour phases is crucial to improve cancer survival, formulate an accurate prognostic report of disease advancement, and, most importantly, quantify the metastatic progression and malignancy state of primary cancer cells with a universal numerical indexing system. This work proposes an early improvement to metastatic cancer detection with 97.7 nm spatial resolution by indexing the metastatic cancer phases from the analysis of atomic force microscopy images of human colorectal cancer histological sections. The procedure applies variograms of residuals of Gaussian filtering and theta statistics of colorectal cancer tissue image settings. This methodology elucidates the early metastatic progression at the nanoscale level by setting metastatic indexes and critical thresholds based on relatively large histological sections and categorising the malignancy state of a few suspicious cells not identified with optical image analysis. In addition, we sought to detect early tiny morphological differentiations indicating potential cell transition from epithelial cell phenotypes of low metastatic potential to those of high metastatic potential. This metastatic differentiation, which is also identified in higher moments of variograms, sets different hierarchical levels for metastatic progression dynamics.

Nanoscale Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis from AFM Image Processing of Histological Sections / Gavriil, Vassilios; Ferraro, Angelo; Cefalas, Alkiviadis-Constantinos; Kollia, Zoe; Pepe, Francesco; Malapelle, Umberto; DE LUCA, Caterina; Troncone, Giancarlo; Sarantopoulou, Evangelia. - In: CANCERS. - ISSN 2072-6694. - 15:4(2023), p. 1220. [10.3390/cancers15041220]

Nanoscale Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis from AFM Image Processing of Histological Sections

Francesco Pepe;Umberto Malapelle;Caterina De Luca;Giancarlo Troncone;
2023

Abstract

: Early ascertainment of metastatic tumour phases is crucial to improve cancer survival, formulate an accurate prognostic report of disease advancement, and, most importantly, quantify the metastatic progression and malignancy state of primary cancer cells with a universal numerical indexing system. This work proposes an early improvement to metastatic cancer detection with 97.7 nm spatial resolution by indexing the metastatic cancer phases from the analysis of atomic force microscopy images of human colorectal cancer histological sections. The procedure applies variograms of residuals of Gaussian filtering and theta statistics of colorectal cancer tissue image settings. This methodology elucidates the early metastatic progression at the nanoscale level by setting metastatic indexes and critical thresholds based on relatively large histological sections and categorising the malignancy state of a few suspicious cells not identified with optical image analysis. In addition, we sought to detect early tiny morphological differentiations indicating potential cell transition from epithelial cell phenotypes of low metastatic potential to those of high metastatic potential. This metastatic differentiation, which is also identified in higher moments of variograms, sets different hierarchical levels for metastatic progression dynamics.
2023
Nanoscale Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis from AFM Image Processing of Histological Sections / Gavriil, Vassilios; Ferraro, Angelo; Cefalas, Alkiviadis-Constantinos; Kollia, Zoe; Pepe, Francesco; Malapelle, Umberto; DE LUCA, Caterina; Troncone, Giancarlo; Sarantopoulou, Evangelia. - In: CANCERS. - ISSN 2072-6694. - 15:4(2023), p. 1220. [10.3390/cancers15041220]
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