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Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology. Yet, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often acquired at gigapixel sizes, rendering them computationally infeasible to analyze entirely at high resolution. Diagnostic…

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Despite their prominent performance on tasks such as ROI classification and segmentation, many pathology foundation models remain constrained by a specific input size e.g. 224 x 224, creating substantial inefficiencies when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , John Kang , Sheng Li , Zhongliang Zhou

Deep learning is a powerful tool for whole slide image (WSI) analysis. Typically, when performing supervised deep learning, a WSI is divided into small patches, trained and the outcomes are aggregated to estimate disease grade. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yi Zheng , Rushin H. Gindra , Emily J. Green , Eric J. Burks , Margrit Betke , Jennifer E. Beane , Vijaya B. Kolachalama

The task of automatically segmenting 3-D surfaces representing boundaries of objects is important for quantitative analysis of volumetric images, and plays a vital role in biomedical image analysis. Recently, graph-based methods with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Abhay Shah , Michael Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

To improve the segmentation of diabetic retinopathy lesions (microaneurysms, hemorrhages, exudates, and soft exudates), we implemented a binary segmentation method specific to each type of lesion. As post-segmentation, we combined the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Meher Boulaabi , Takwa Ben Aïcha Gader , Afef Kacem Echi , Sameh Mbarek

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Ankit R. Chadha , Neha S. Satam

Quantifying the distribution and morphology of tau protein structures in brain tissues is key to diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and its subtypes. Recently, deep learning (DL) models such as UNet have been successfully used for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Gabriel Jimenez , Anuradha Kar , Mehdi Ounissi , Léa Ingrassia , Susana Boluda , Benoît Delatour , Lev Stimmer , Daniel Racoceanu

A crucial step to efficiently integrate Whole Slide Images (WSIs) in computational pathology is assigning a single high-quality feature vector, i.e., one embedding, to each WSI. With the existence of many pre-trained deep neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Sobhan Hemati , Ghazal Alabtah , Saghir Alfasly , H. R. Tizhoosh

Pathology is essential for cancer diagnosis, with multiple instance learning (MIL) widely used for whole slide image (WSI) analysis. WSIs exhibit a natural hierarchy -- patches, regions, and slides -- with distinct semantic associations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Peixiang Huang , Yanyan Huang , Weiqin Zhao , Junjun He , Lequan Yu

Bag-based Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) approaches have emerged as the mainstream methodology for Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification. However, most existing methods adopt a segmented training strategy, which first extracts features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jiangping Wen , Jinyu Wen , Meie Fang

Segmenting curvilinear structures in medical images is essential for analyzing morphological patterns in clinical applications. Integrating topological properties, such as connectivity, improves segmentation accuracy and consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhuangzhi Gao , Feixiang Zhou , He Zhao , Xiuju Chen , Xiaoxin Li , Qinkai Yu , Yitian Zhao , Alena Shantsila , Gregory Y. H. Lip , Eduard Shantsila , Yalin Zheng

The Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) advances visual understanding with Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS) across images and videos, but its unified architecture (shared vision backbone, DETR-style detector, dense-memory tracker) remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chengxi Zeng , Yuxuan Jiang , Aaron Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have exhibited remarkable success in the field of histopathology image analysis. On the other hand, the contemporary trend of employing large models and extensive datasets has underscored the significance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Cong Cong , Shiyu Xuan , Sidong Liu , Maurice Pagnucco , Shiliang Zhang , Yang Song

Histopathological whole slide images (WSIs) classification has become a foundation task in medical microscopic imaging processing. Prevailing approaches involve learning WSIs as instance-bag representations, emphasizing significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Jiawen Li , Yuxuan Chen , Hongbo Chu , Qiehe Sun , Tian Guan , Anjia Han , Yonghong He

We present a weakly supervised deep learning method to perform instance segmentation of cells present in microscopy images. Annotation of biomedical images in the lab can be scarce, incomplete, and inaccurate. This is of concern when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fidel A. Guerrero-Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Representation learning for Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is pivotal in developing image-based systems to achieve higher precision in diagnostic pathology. We propose a two-stage framework for WSI representation learning. We sample relevant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Mohammed Adnan , Shivam Kalra , Hamid R. Tizhoosh

Tissue segmentation is a routine preprocessing step to reduce the computational cost of whole slide image (WSI) analysis by excluding background regions. Traditional image processing techniques are commonly used for tissue segmentation, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Ruben T. Lucassen , Willeke A. M. Blokx , Mitko Veta

In histopathology, tissue samples are often larger than a standard microscope slide, making stitching of multiple fragments necessary to process entire structures such as tumors. Automated stitching is a prerequisite for scaling analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Stefan Brandstätter , Maximilian Köller , Philipp Seeböck , Alissa Blessing , Felicitas Oberndorfer , Svitlana Pochepnia , Helmut Prosch , Georg Langs

This paper presents a new framework for human body part segmentation based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks trained using only synthetic data. The proposed approach achieves cutting-edge results without the need of training the models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Alessandro Saviolo , Matteo Bonotto , Daniele Evangelista , Marco Imperoli , Jacopo Lazzaro , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

There has been a long pursuit for precise and reproducible glomerular quantification on renal pathology to leverage both research and practice. When digitizing the biopsy tissue samples using whole slide imaging (WSI), a set of serial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ruining Deng , Haichun Yang , Aadarsh Jha , Yuzhe Lu , Peng Chu , Agnes B. Fogo , Yuankai Huo