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ea0098b23 | Basic Science | NANETS2023

Calreticulin is associated with clinical characteristics in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

Herring Brendon , Macvicar Caroline , Guenter Rachael , Chen Weisheng , Elhussin Isra , Yates Clayton , Dhall Deepti , Chen Herbert , Lee Goo , Bart Rose J.

Background: Following IHC of CALR, H-scoring was performed by a pathologist. H-scoring was validated by MIF of the same tissue, wherein random-forest machine learning (ML) classifiers were employed to classify cells. ML classifiers were trained to distinguish between pNET cells and tumor stroma using approximately 30% of cells for the respective cell population of interest in each TMA core. Pearson’s correlations were used to evaluate the relationship between H-scoring an...