Fig. 2: Deep neural networks used to generate the training data for the stain transformation network.
From: Deep learning-based transformation of H&E stained tissues into special stains
a Virtual staining network (pink arrow) which can generate both the H&E and special stain images. b Style transfer network (green arrow) that is used just to augment the training data. c Scheme used to train the stain transformation network. During its training, the stain transformation network is randomly given, as the input, either the virtually stained H&E tissue, or an image of the same field of view after passing through one of the eight style transfer networks. A perfectly matched virtually stained tissue image with the desired special stain (in this example shown: PAS) is used as the ground truth to train this neural network.
