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Manual count of mitotic figures, which is determined in the tumor region with the highest mitotic activity, is a key parameter of most tumor grading schemes. It can be, however, strongly dependent on the area selection due to uneven mitotic…

We present a novel approach which extends the existing Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detector (FCOS) for mitotic figure detection. Our composite model adds a Feedback Attention Ladder CNN (FAL-CNN) model for classification of normal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Andrew Broad , Jason Keighley , Lucy Godson , Alex Wright

Mitotic count (MC) is an important histological parameter for cancer diagnosis and grading, but the manual process for obtaining MC from whole-slide histopathological images is very time-consuming and prone to error. Therefore, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chawan Piansaddhayanon , Sakun Santisukwongchote , Shanop Shuangshoti , Qingyi Tao , Sira Sriswasdi , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

Introduction: Nottingham grading system is a major prognostic factor for invasive breast carcinoma (IBC). Its determination requires the evaluation of the mitotic score (MS) which is subject to low intra- and inter-observer reproducibility.…

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…

Nuclei detection is an important task in the histology domain as it is a main step toward further analysis such as cell counting, cell segmentation, study of cell connections, etc. This is a challenging task due to the complex texture of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Navid Alemi Koohababni , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ali Gooya , Nasir Rajpoot

Mitotic counts are one of the key indicators of breast cancer prognosis. However, accurate mitotic cell counting is still a difficult problem and is labourious. Automated methods have been proposed for this task, but are usually dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Salar Razavi , Fariba Dambandkhameneh , Dimitri Androutsos , Susan Done , April Khademi

Automated breast cancer detection via computer vision techniques is challenging due to the complex nature of breast tissue, the subtle appearance of cancerous lesions, and variations in breast density. Mainstream techniques primarily focus…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-11 Noor Ul Huda Shah , Tanveer Hussain , Amr Ahmed , Yonghuai Liu , Usman Ali , Ardhendu Behera

Mitotic figures represent a key histoprognostic feature in tumor pathology, providing crucial insights into tumor aggressiveness and proliferation. However, their identification remains challenging, subject to significant inter-observer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Raphaël Bourgade , Guillaume Balezo , Hana Feki , Lily Monier , Matthieu Blons , Alice Blondel , Delphine Loussouarn , Anne Vincent-Salomon , Thomas Walter

Objective: This paper proposes a deep learning model for breast cancer detection from reconstructed images of microwave imaging scan data and aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of breast tumor detection, which could have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Gayathri Girish , Ponnathota Spandana , Badrish Vasu

Mitosis detection is one of the challenging problems in computational pathology, and mitotic count is an important index of cancer grading for pathologists. However, current counts of mitotic nuclei rely on pathologists looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Huadeng Wang , Hao Xu , Bingbing Li , Xipeng Pan , Lingqi Zeng , Rushi Lan , Xiaonan Luo

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different molecular subtypes, clinical behavior, treatment responses as well as survival outcomes. The development of a reliable, accurate, available and inexpensive method to predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mohaddeseh Chegini , Ali Mahloojifar

Precision medicine has become a central focus in breast cancer management, advancing beyond conventional methods to deliver more precise and individualized therapies. Traditionally, histopathology images have been used primarily for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-17 Suchithra Kunhoth , Somaya Al- Maadeed , Younes Akbari , Rafif Al Saady

Accurate diagnosis of breast cancer in histopathology images is challenging due to the heterogeneity of cancer cell growth as well as of a variety of benign breast tissue proliferative lesions. In this paper, we propose a practical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Xingyu Li , Marko Radulovic , Ksenija Kanjer , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Breast cancer has the highest mortality among cancers in women. Computer-aided pathology to analyze microscopic histopathology images for diagnosis with an increasing number of breast cancer patients can bring the cost and delays of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Abhijeet Patil , Dipesh Tamboli , Swati Meena , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Li Shen , Laurie R. Margolies , Joseph H. Rothstein , Eugene Fluder , Russell B. McBride , Weiva Sieh

Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) bear great promise as biomarkers in tumor prognosis. However, the process of identification and later enumeration of CTCs require manual labor, which is error-prone and time-consuming. The recent developments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Elena Alexander , Kam W. Leong , Andrew F. Laine

Due to cellular heterogeneity, cell nuclei classification, segmentation, and detection from pathological images are challenging tasks. In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) approaches have been shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

Early detection and prognosis of breast cancer are feasible by utilizing histopathological grading of biopsy specimens. This research is focused on detection and grading of nuclear pleomorphism in histopathological images of breast cancer.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Pegah Faridi , Habibollah Danyali , Mohammad Sadegh Helfroush , Mojgan Akbarzadeh Jahromi

Diagnostic pathology, which is the basis and gold standard of cancer diagnosis, provides essential information on the prognosis of the disease and vital evidence for clinical treatment. Tumor region detection, subtype and grade…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Jialun Wu , Haichuan Zhang , Zeyu Gao , Xinrui Bao , Tieliang Gong , Chunbao Wang , Chen Li