Virtual formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded staining of fresh brain tissue via stimulated Raman CycleGAN model

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Abstract

Intraoperative histology is essential for surgical guidance and decision-making. However, frozen-sectioned hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining suffers from degraded accuracy, whereas the gold-standard formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) H&E is too lengthy for intraoperative use. Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy has shown rapid histology of brain tissue with lipid/protein contrast but is challenging to yield images identical to nucleic acid-/protein-based FFPE stains interpretable to pathologists. Here, we report the development of a semi-supervised stimulated Raman CycleGAN model to convert fresh-tissue SRS images to H&E stains using unpaired training data. Within 3 minutes, stimulated Raman virtual histology (SRVH) results that matched perfectly with true H&E could be generated. A blind validation indicated that board-certified neuropathologists are able to differentiate histologic subtypes of human glioma on SRVH but hardly on conventional SRS images. SRVH may provide intraoperative diagnosis superior to frozen H&E in both speed and accuracy, extendable to other types of solid tumors.

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