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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2021 Sep 30;40(10):2880–2896. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2020.3042789

TABLE I.

Evaluation of nucleus detection on different datasets in terms of precision (P), recall (R) and F1 score (%). S and T denote the source and target domains, respectively. The first, second, third and forth panels represent the proposed method’s variants, proposed UDA methods, proposed SSDA methods with 5% gold-standard annotations available in each target dataset, and the target-only models respectively, for different radii (i.e., r = 16 and 8) used to define gold-standard regions.

Method r = 16

H&E (T) DAPI (T) IHC (T)

DAPI (S) IHC (S) H&E (S) IHC (S) H&E (S) DAPI (S)
P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1

1 Baseline 49.7 64.3 56.1 74.5 62.5 68.0 69.3 70.6 69.9 76.4 87.2 81.4 72.7 93.1 81.6 68.4 85.8 76.1
S 70.3 59.0 64.1 75.0 63.5 68.8 60.0 66.7 63.1 71.5 89.9 79.7 59.2 96.3 73.3 79.8 79.2 79.5
TST 62.5 63.1 62.8 85.3 52.1 64.7 57.2 95.0 71.4 74.2 91.5 82.0 68.2 93.9 79.0 74.0 85.7 79.4
TST 72.7 56.3 63.4 74.4 58.8 65.7 58.7 77.2 66.7 73.1 87.7 79.7 60.7 96.7 74.5 77.5 86.7 81.8

2 TSTUDA 70.1 61.2 65.3 82.8 59.3 69.1 65.3 84.6 73.7 74.7 90.4 81.8 76.2 93.0 83.7 77.8 83.3 80.5
S+TSTUDA 71.8 60.5 65.7 82.9 60.2 69.7 65.9 81.0 72.6 74.8 90.4 81.8 75.8 94.2 84.0 79.4 82.0 80.7

3 TSTSSDA 75.4 69.3 72.2 73.9 69.9 71.8 75.7 86.2 80.6 76.6 85.6 80.8 83.5 87.2 85.3 85.2 84.8 85.0
S+TSTSSDA 77.7 70.2 73.8 77.2 68.7 72.7 75.8 86.6 80.9 76.7 86.9 81.5 82.5 88.8 85.6 87.0 85.0 86.0

4 5%-target 73.6 66.0 69.9 73.6 66.0 69.9 75.7 86.0 80.8 75.7 86.0 80.8 85.8 82.2 84.3 85.8 82.2 84.3
Full-target 75.7 90.8 82.5 75.7 90.8 82.5 77.2 89.3 82.8 77.2 89.3 82.8 87.7 89.5 88.6 87.7 89.5 88.6

Method r = 8

H&E (T) DAPI (T) IHC (T)

DAPI (S) IHC (S) H&E (S) IHC (S) H&E (S) DAPI (S)
P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1 P R F 1

1 Baseline 40.1 51.8 45.2 68.2 57.2 62.2 58.3 59.4 58.8 69.0 78.7 73.5 70.9 90.8 79.6 66.3 83.1 73.7
S 61.5 51.6 56.1 67.5 57.2 61.9 45.2 50.2 47.5 63.5 79.8 70.8 56.4 91.9 69.9 77.1 76.5 76.8
TST 53.6 54.1 53.8 79.4 48.5 60.2 51.6 85.8 64.5 68.6 84.5 75.7 65.7 90.4 76.1 71.4 82.6 76.6
TST 65.6 50.8 57.2 68.3 54.0 60.3 43.7 57.5 49.7 65.9 79.0 71.8 57.4 91.5 70.5 75.1 83.9 79.3

2 TSTUDA 62.5 54.5 58.2 77.0 55.2 64.3 55.5 71.9 62.6 68.8 83.2 75.3 73.8 90.1 81.1 75.3 80.7 77.9
S+TSTUDA 64.4 54.2 58.9 77.2 56.1 65.0 54.8 67.4 60.4 68.5 82.9 75.0 73.3 91.0 81.2 77.1 79.6 78.3

3 TSTSSDA 68.0 62.5 65.1 66.7 63.0 64.8 68.6 78.1 73.0 69.8 78.0 73.7 80.7 84.2 82.4 82.5 82.2 82.3
S+TSTSSDA 70.9 64.0 67.3 70.9 63.0 66.7 67.6 77.2 72.1 69.9 79.2 74.3 79.8 85.9 82.7 84.7 82.7 83.7

4 5%-target 66.7 59.8 63.3 66.7 59.8 63.3 68.9 78.5 73.7 68.9 78.5 73.7 82.9 79.5 81.5 82.9 79.5 81.5
Full-target 71.1 85.3 77.6 71.1 85.3 77.6 72.0 83.3 77.2 72.0 83.3 77.2 86.0 87.8 86.9 86.0 87.8 86.9