Machine learning approaches were applied to separate stroma from epithelium in prostate tissue images.
Epithelium was sub-stratified into normal/benign and cancer areas.
Tissue content was predicted based on descriptors from individual pixels rather than from glands.
Tissue prediction does not involve detection of glandular lumens which is inaccurate, prone to errors, and has limitations.
Proposed method has the potential to aid in clinical prostate studies.