CNN-based Approach for Cervical Cancer Classification in Whole-Slide Histopathology Images

Cervical cancer will cause 460 000 deaths per year by 2040, approximately 90% are Sub-Saharan African women. A constantly increasing incidence in Africa making cervical cancer a priority by the World Health Organization (WHO) in terms of screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Conventionally, cancer diagnosis relies primarily on histopathological assessment, a deeply error-prone procedure requiring intelligent computer-aided systems as low-cost patient safety mechanisms but lack of labeled data in digital pathology limits their applicability. In this study, few cervical tissue digital slides from TCGA data portal were pre-processed to overcome whole-slide images obstacles and included in our proposed VGG16-CNN classification approach. Our results achieved an accuracy of 98,26% and an F1-score of 97,9%, which confirm the potential of transfer learning on this weakly-supervised task.

Towards A Sign Language Gloss Representation Of Modern Standard Arabic

Over 5% of the world's population (466 million people) has disabling hearing loss. 4 million are children. They can be hard of hearing or deaf. Deaf people mostly have profound hearing loss. Which implies very little or no hearing. Over the world, deaf people often communicate using a sign language with gestures of both hands and facial expressions. The sign language is a full-fledged natural language with its own grammar and lexicon. Therefore, there is a need for translation models from and to sign languages. In this work, we are interested in the translation of Modern Standard Arabic(MSAr) into sign language. We generated a gloss representation from MSAr that extracts the features mandatory for the generation of animation signs. Our approach locates the most pertinent features that maintain the meaning of the input Arabic sentence.