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The proliferative activity of breast tumors, which is routinely estimated by counting of mitotic figures in hematoxylin and eosin stained histology sections, is considered to be one of the most important prognostic markers. However, mitosis…

Counting of mitotic figures is a fundamental step in grading and prognostication of several cancers. However, manual mitosis counting is tedious and time-consuming. In addition, variation in the appearance of mitotic figures causes a high…

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Histopathology remains the gold standard for cancer diagnosis because it provides detailed cellular-level assessment of tissue morphology. However, manual histopathological examination is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and subject to…

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Histopathological image analysis is an essential process for the discovery of diseases such as cancer. However, it is challenging to train CNN on whole slide images (WSIs) of gigapixel resolution considering the available memory capacity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Shusuke Takahama , Yusuke Kurose , Yusuke Mukuta , Hiroyuki Abe , Masashi Fukayama , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Masanobu Kitagawa , Tatsuya Harada

Each woman living in the United States has about 1 in 8 chance of developing invasive breast cancer. The mitotic cell count is one of the most common tests to assess the aggressiveness or grade of breast cancer. In this prognosis,…

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Histopathology has played an essential role in cancer diagnosis. With the rapid advances in convolutional neural networks (CNN). Various CNN-based automated pathological image segmentation approaches have been developed in computer-assisted…

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Cell segmentation is a critical step for quantitative single-cell analysis in microscopy images. Existing cell segmentation methods are often tailored to specific modalities or require manual interventions to specify hyper-parameters in…

Mitotic activity is key for the assessment of malignancy in many tumors. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the proportion of abnormal mitosis to normal mitosis is of prognostic significance. Atypical mitotic figures (MF) can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Marc Aubreville , Jonathan Ganz , Jonas Ammeling , Taryn A. Donovan , Rutger H. J. Fick , Katharina Breininger , Christof A. Bertram

There is a strong need for automated systems to improve diagnostic quality and reduce the analysis time in histopathology image processing. Automated detection and classification of pathological tissue characteristics with computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Muhammed Talo

Tissue typology annotation in Whole Slide histological images is a complex and tedious, yet necessary task for the development of computational pathology models. We propose to address this problem by applying Open Set Recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Adrian Galdran , Katherine J. Hewitt , Narmin L. Ghaffari , Jakob N. Kather , Gustavo Carneiro , Miguel A. González Ballester

Assessing the Mitotic Count has a known high degree of intra- and inter-rater variability. Computer-aided systems have proven to decrease this variability and reduce labeling time. These systems, however, are generally highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Frauke Wilm , Christian Marzahl , Katharina Breininger , Marc Aubreville

Accurate classification of haematological cells is critical for diagnosing blood disorders, but presents significant challenges for machine automation owing to the complexity of cell morphology, heterogeneities of biological, pathological,…

Spatial arrangement of cells of various types, such as tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and the advancing edge of a tumor, are important features for detecting and characterizing cancers. However, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) do not…

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This work addresses how to efficiently classify challenging histopathology images, such as gigapixel whole-slide images for cancer diagnostics with image-level annotation. We use images with annotated tumor regions to identify a set of…

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Nuclear segmentation and classification within Haematoxylin & Eosin stained histology images is a fundamental prerequisite in the digital pathology work-flow. The development of automated methods for nuclear segmentation and classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Simon Graham , Quoc Dang Vu , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Ayesha Azam , Yee Wah Tsang , Jin Tae Kwak , Nasir Rajpoot

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are important histopathological markers yet remain challenging to identify consistently, particularly under domain shift stemming from scanner, stain, and acquisition differences. We present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kaustubh Atey , Sameer Anand Jha , Gouranga Bala , Amit Sethi

We propose a method to accurately obtain the ratio of tumor cells over an entire histological slide. We use deep fully convolutional neural network models trained to detect and classify cells on images of H&E-stained tissue sections.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Eric Cosatto , Kyle Gerard , Hans-Peter Graf , Maki Ogura , Tomoharu Kiyuna , Kanako C. Hatanaka , Yoshihiro Matsuno , Yutaka Hatanaka

The account of mitotic cells is a key feature in tumor diagnosis. However, due to the variability of mitotic cell morphology, it is a highly challenging task to detect mitotic cells in tumor tissues. At the same time, although advanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Chen Yang , Wang Ziyue , Fang Zijie , Bian Hao , Zhang Yongbing

Histopathology images; microscopy images of stained tissue biopsies contain fundamental prognostic information that forms the foundation of pathological analysis and diagnostic medicine. However, diagnostics from histopathology images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Aïcha BenTaieb , Ghassan Hamarneh

Accurate and scalable cancer diagnosis remains a critical challenge in modern pathology, particularly for malignancies such as breast, prostate, bone, and cervical, which exhibit complex histological variability. In this study, we propose a…

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