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Item Author Correction: A pyramidal deep learning pipeline for kidney whole-slide histology images classification(Springer Nature, 2021-11-02) Abdeltawab, Hisham; Khalifa, Fahmi; Ghazal, Mohammed; Cheng, Liang; Gondim, Dibson; El‑Baz, Ayman; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of MedicineThis corrects the article "A pyramidal deep learning pipeline for kidney whole-slide histology images classification" in volume 11, 20189.Item A pyramidal deep learning pipeline for kidney whole-slide histology images classification(Springer Nature, 2021-10-12) Abdeltawab, Hisham; Khalifa, Fahmi; Ghazal, Mohammed; Cheng, Liang; Gondim, Dibson; El‑Baz, Ayman; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of MedicineRenal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer. There are several subtypes of renal cell carcinoma with distinct clinicopathologic features. Among the subtypes, clear cell renal cell carcinoma is the most common and tends to portend poor prognosis. In contrast, clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma has an excellent prognosis. These two subtypes are primarily classified based on the histopathologic features. However, a subset of cases can a have a significant degree of histopathologic overlap. In cases with ambiguous histologic features, the correct diagnosis is dependent on the pathologist's experience and usage of immunohistochemistry. We propose a new method to address this diagnostic task based on a deep learning pipeline for automated classification. The model can detect tumor and non-tumoral portions of kidney and classify the tumor as either clear cell renal cell carcinoma or clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma. Our framework consists of three convolutional neural networks and the whole slide images of kidney which were divided into patches of three different sizes for input into the networks. Our approach can provide patchwise and pixelwise classification. The kidney histology images consist of 64 whole slide images. Our framework results in an image map that classifies the slide image on the pixel-level. Furthermore, we applied generalized Gauss-Markov random field smoothing to maintain consistency in the map. Our approach classified the four classes accurately and surpassed other state-of-the-art methods, such as ResNet (pixel accuracy: 0.89 Resnet18, 0.92 proposed). We conclude that deep learning has the potential to augment the pathologist's capabilities by providing automated classification for histopathological images.