docs/README.md

# Model Overview
A pre-trained model for simultaneous segmentation and classification of nuclei within multi-tissue histology images based on CoNSeP data. The details of the model can be found in [1].

The model is trained to simultaneously segment and classify nuclei, and a two-stage training approach is utilized:

- Initialize the model with pre-trained weights, and train the decoder only for 50 epochs.
- Finetune all layers for another 50 epochs.

There are two training modes in total. If "original" mode is specified, [270, 270] and [80, 80] are used for `patch_size` and `out_size` respectively. If "fast" mode is specified, [256, 256] and [164, 164] are used for `patch_size` and `out_size` respectively. The results shown below are based on the "fast" mode.

In this bundle, the first stage is trained with pre-trained weights from some internal data. The [original author's repo](https://github.com/vqdang/hover_net) and [torchvison](https://pytorch.org/vision/stable/_modules/torchvision/models/resnet.html#ResNet18_Weights) also provide pre-trained weights but for non-commercial use.
Each user is responsible for checking the content of models/datasets and the applicable licenses and determining if suitable for the intended use.

If you want to train the first stage with pre-trained weights, just specify `--network_def#pretrained_url <your pretrain weights URL>` in the training command below, such as [ImageNet](https://download.pytorch.org/models/resnet18-f37072fd.pth).

![Model workflow](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/Clara/Images/monai_hovernet_pipeline.png)

## Data
The training data is from <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/tia/data/hovernet/>.

- Target: segment instance-level nuclei and classify the nuclei type
- Task: Segmentation and classification
- Modality: RGB images
- Size: 41 image tiles (2009 patches)

The provided labelled data was partitioned, based on the original split, into training (27 tiles) and testing (14 tiles) datasets.

### Preprocessing

After download the datasets, please run `scripts/prepare_patches.py` to prepare patches from tiles. Prepared patches are saved in `<your concep dataset path>`/Prepared. The implementation is referring to <https://github.com/vqdang/hover_net>. The command is like:

```
python scripts/prepare_patches.py --root <your concep dataset path>
```

## Training configuration
This model utilized a two-stage approach. The training was performed with the following:

- GPU: At least 24GB of GPU memory.
- Actual Model Input: 256 x 256
- AMP: True
- Optimizer: Adam
- Learning Rate: 1e-4
- Loss: HoVerNetLoss

## Input
Input: RGB images

## Output
Output: a dictionary with the following keys:

1. nucleus_prediction: predict whether or not a pixel belongs to the nuclei or background
2. horizontal_vertical: predict the horizontal and vertical distances of nuclear pixels to their centres of mass
3. type_prediction: predict the type of nucleus for each pixel

## Performance
The achieved metrics on the validation data are:

Fast mode:
- Binary Dice: 0.8291
- PQ: 0.4973
- F1d: 0.7417

Note:
- Binary Dice is calculated based on the whole input. PQ and F1d were calculated from https://github.com/vqdang/hover_net#inference.
- This bundle is non-deterministic because of the bilinear interpolation used in the network. Therefore, reproducing the training process may not get exactly the same performance.
Please refer to https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html#reproducibility for more details about reproducibility.

#### Training Loss and Dice
stage1:
![A graph showing the training loss and the mean dice over 50 epochs in stage1](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/Clara/Images/monai_pathology_segmentation_classification_train_stage0_v2.png)

stage2:
![A graph showing the training loss and the mean dice over 50 epochs in stage2](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/Clara/Images/monai_pathology_segmentation_classification_train_stage1_v2.png)

#### Validation Dice
stage1:

![A graph showing the validation mean dice over 50 epochs in stage1](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/Clara/Images/monai_pathology_segmentation_classification_val_stage0_v2.png)

stage2:

![A graph showing the validation mean dice over 50 epochs in stage2](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/Clara/Images/monai_pathology_segmentation_classification_val_stage1_v2.png)

## MONAI Bundle Commands
In addition to the Pythonic APIs, a few command line interfaces (CLI) are provided to interact with the bundle. The CLI supports flexible use cases, such as overriding configs at runtime and predefining arguments in a file.

For more details usage instructions, visit the [MONAI Bundle Configuration Page](https://docs.monai.io/en/latest/config_syntax.html).

#### Execute training, the evaluation in the training were evaluated on patches:

- Run first stage
```
python -m monai.bundle run --config_file configs/train.json --stage 0
```

- Run second stage
```
python -m monai.bundle run --config_file configs/train.json --network_def#freeze_encoder False --stage 1
```

#### Override the `train` config to execute multi-GPU training:

- Run first stage
```
torchrun --standalone --nnodes=1 --nproc_per_node=2 -m monai.bundle run --config_file "['configs/train.json','configs/multi_gpu_train.json']" --batch_size 8 --network_def#freeze_encoder True --stage 0
```

- Run second stage
```
torchrun --standalone --nnodes=1 --nproc_per_node=2 -m monai.bundle run --config_file "['configs/train.json','configs/multi_gpu_train.json']" --batch_size 4 --network_def#freeze_encoder False --stage 1
```

#### Override the `train` config to execute evaluation with the trained model, here we evaluated dice from the whole input instead of the patches:

```
python -m monai.bundle run --config_file "['configs/train.json','configs/evaluate.json']"
```

#### Execute inference:

```
python -m monai.bundle run --config_file configs/inference.json
```

# References
[1] Simon Graham, Quoc Dang Vu, Shan E Ahmed Raza, Ayesha Azam, Yee Wah Tsang, Jin Tae Kwak, Nasir Rajpoot, Hover-Net: Simultaneous segmentation and classification of nuclei in multi-tissue histology images, Medical Image Analysis, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2019.101563

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