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Table 1 Characteristics of AI-models

From: Deep learning assisted quantitative assessment of histopathological markers of Alzheimer’s disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy

AI model Aβ-model Iron model Fibrin model GFAP model CD68 model Calcium model
Stain IHC for Aβ Perls’ Prussian blue IHC for Fibrin(ogen) IHC for GFAP IHC for CD68 von Kossa
No. of training sections/total no. of sections in dataset 13/146 16/144 13/142 11/144 8/39* 9/44*
Layer 1 Area Area Area Area Area Area
  Leptomeningeal vessels Tissue Non-vascular tissue Tissue Tissue Tissue
  Tissue   Vascular fibrin positive tissue    
Layer 2 Area Object Object Object Object Area (Calcium positive)
  CAA Iron positive cells Fibrin positive cells Reactive astrocytes CD68 positive cells Neuronal
  Amyloid-β plaques      Vascular
       Extracellular
Layer 3       Object
       Calcium positive cells
No. of sections excluded after QC 4 5 3 0 0 0
No. of sections for validation 13 14 14 14 4 4
  1. The table summarizes the six models described in this study, listing the kind of staining for each set of sections, the number of sections on which the model was trained, and the layers by which the model was built. For each layer it is reported whether the convolutional neural network was trained to recognize an area or an object. Finally, the total number of sections on which the model was applied, those excluded after QC, and those on which the model was validated is reported. Key: IHC: immunohistochemistry; AD: Alzheimer’s disease; CAA: cerebral amyloid angiopathy; QC: quality control
  2. *Note that the CD68 and calcium models were trained on and applied to sections derived only from cohorts 2 and 3 (AD cases), whereas the other four models used data from all 3 cohorts (AD and CAA cases)