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While machine learning is currently transforming the field of histopathology, the domain lacks a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art models based on essential but complementary quality requirements beyond a mere classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maximilian Springenberg , Annika Frommholz , Markus Wenzel , Eva Weicken , Jackie Ma , Nils Strodthoff

Whole-slide images (WSIs) are fundamental for computational pathology, where accurate lesion segmentation is critical for clinical decision making. Existing methods partition WSIs into discrete patches, disrupting spatial continuity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yunheng Wu , Wenqi Huang , Liangyi Wang , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Daniel Rueckert , Kensaku Mori

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

Joint analysis of multiple biomarker images and tissue morphology is important for disease diagnosis, treatment planning and drug development. It requires cross-staining comparison among Whole Slide Images (WSIs) of immuno-histochemical and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Abubakr Shafique , Morteza Babaie , Mahjabin Sajadi , Adrian Batten , Soma Skdar , H. R. Tizhoosh

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has garnered widespread attention in the field of Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification as it replaces pixel-level manual annotation with diagnostic reports as labels, significantly reducing labor costs.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Tianhang Nan , Hao Quan , Yong Ding , Xingyu Li , Kai Yang , Xiaoyu Cui

Semantic segmentation of breast cancer metastases in histopathological slides is a challenging task. In fact, significant variation in data characteristics of histopathology images (domain shift) make generalization of deep learning to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Gianluca Gerard , Marco Piastra

Whole slide images (WSIs) pose unique challenges when training deep learning models. They are very large which makes it necessary to break each image down into smaller patches for analysis, image features have to be extracted at multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Sharon Nofech-Mozes , Shawna Noy , Fang-I Lu , Anne L. Martel

Fully supervised segmentation methods require a large training cohort of already segmented images, providing information at the pixel level of each image. We present a method to automatically segment and model pathologies in medical images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Simon Andermatt , Antal Horváth , Simon Pezold , Philippe Cattin

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

Histopathological images contain abundant phenotypic information and pathological patterns, which are the gold standards for disease diagnosis and essential for the prediction of patient prognosis and treatment outcome. In recent years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Linhao Qu , Siyu Liu , Xiaoyu Liu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Virtual staining leverages computer-aided techniques to transfer the style of histochemically stained tissue samples to other staining types. In virtual staining of pathological images, maintaining strict structural consistency is crucial,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Bing Xiong , Yue Peng , RanRan Zhang , Fuqiang Chen , JiaYe He , Wenjian Qin

Whole slide images~(WSIs) are digitized images of tissues placed in glass slides using advanced scanners. The digital processing of WSIs is challenging as they are gigapixel images and stored in multi-resolution format. A common challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani , Masoud Ganji

Whole slide images (WSIs) are gigapixel-scale digital images of H\&E-stained tissue samples widely used in pathology. The substantial size and complexity of WSIs pose unique analytical challenges. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jun Wang , Yu Mao , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

The development of vision-language models (VLMs) for histo-pathology has shown promising new usages and zero-shot performances. However, current approaches, which decompose large slides into smaller patches, focus solely on inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Maxime Zanella , Fereshteh Shakeri , Yunshi Huang , Houda Bahig , Ismail Ben Ayed

Digital pathology has fundamentally altered diagnostic workflows by enabling the computational analysis of gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs), yet effectively deciphering their complex tumor microenvironments remains a formidable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuemei Qiu , Dawei Fan , Yebin Huang , Yanping Chen , Lifang Wei

Histological staining is the gold standard for tissue examination in clinical pathology and life-science research, which visualizes the tissue and cellular structures using chromatic dyes or fluorescence labels to aid the microscopic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Bijie Bai , Xilin Yang , Yuzhu Li , Yijie Zhang , Nir Pillar , Aydogan Ozcan

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Meningioma is one of the most prevalent brain tumors in adults. To determine its malignancy, it is graded by a pathologist into three grades according to WHO standards. This grade plays a decisive role in treatment, and yet may be subject…

Using only global image-class labels, weakly-supervised learning methods, such as class activation mapping, allow training CNNs to jointly classify an image, and locate regions of interest associated with the predicted class. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Due to the lack of fine-grained annotation guidance, current Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) struggles to establish a robust causal relationship between Whole Slide Image (WSI) diagnosis and evidence sub-images, just like fully supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Tianhang Nan , Yong Ding , Hao Quan , Deliang Li , Lisha Li , Guanghong Zhao , Xiaoyu Cui