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Mitotic figure (MF) detection in histopathology images is challenging due to large variations in slide scanners, staining protocols, tissue types, and the presence of artifacts. This paper presents a collection of training techniques - a…

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Mitotic activity is a crucial proliferation biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of different types of cancers. Nevertheless, mitosis counting is a cumbersome process for pathologists, prone to low reproducibility, due to the large…

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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with over two million new cases each year. During diagnostic tumour grading, pathologists manually count the number of dividing cells (mitotic figures) in biopsy or tumour…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Jack Breen , Kieran Zucker , Nicolas M. Orsi , Nishant Ravikumar

The problem of recognizing various types of tissues present in multi-gigapixel histology images is an important fundamental pre-requisite for downstream analysis of the tumor microenvironment in a bottom-up analysis paradigm for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Nima Hatami , Mohsin Bilal , Nasir Rajpoot

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death across the world in women. Early diagnosis of this type of cancer is critical for treatment and patient care. Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems using convolutional neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Michal J. Wesolowski , Kevin A. Schneider , Ralph Deters

Breast cancer is one of the most serious types of cancer that can occur in women. The automatic diagnosis of breast cancer by analyzing histological images (HIs) is important for patients and their prognosis. The classification of HIs…

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Purpose: To determine whether deep learning-based algorithms applied to breast MR images can aid in the prediction of occult invasive disease following the di- agnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) by core needle biopsy. Material and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Zhe Zhu , Michael Harowicz , Jun Zhang , Ashirbani Saha , Lars J. Grimm , E. Shelley Hwang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Quantitative analysis of cell nuclei in microscopic images is an essential yet challenging source of biological and pathological information. The major challenge is accurate detection and segmentation of densely packed nuclei in images…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-14 Linqing Feng , Jun Ho Song , Jiwon Kim , Soomin Jeong , Jin Sung Park , Jinhyun Kim

Mitotic figure detection remains a challenging task in computational pathology due to domain variability and morphological complexity. This paper describes our participation in the MIDOG 2025 challenge, focusing on robust mitotic figure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Euiseop Song , Jaeyoung Park , Jaewoo Park

Accurate and reliable nuclei identification is an essential part of quantification in microscopy. A range of mathematical and machine learning approaches are used but all methods have limitations. Such limitations include sensitivity to…

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Mitotic figure count is an important marker of tumor proliferation and has been shown to be associated with patients' prognosis. Deep learning based mitotic figure detection methods have been utilized to automatically locate the cell in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jingtang Liang , Cheng Wang , Yujie Cheng , Zheng Wang , Fang Wang , Liyu Huang , Zhibin Yu , Yubo Wang

Manual counting of mitotic tumor cells in tissue sections constitutes one of the strongest prognostic markers for breast cancer. This procedure, however, is time-consuming and error-prone. We developed a method to automatically detect…

Breast cancer (BC) significantly contributes to cancer-related mortality in women, underscoring the criticality of early detection for optimal patient outcomes. A mammography is a key tool for identifying and diagnosing breast…

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Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women, and the second main cause of death. Breast cancer screening is an efficient method to detect indeterminate breast lesions early. The common approaches of screening for women are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yuliana Jiménez Gaona , María José Rodriguez-Alvarez , Hector Espinó Morató , Darwin Castillo Malla , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Separating and labeling each instance of a nucleus (instance-aware segmentation) is the key challenge in segmenting single cell nuclei on fluorescence microscopy images. Deep Neural Networks can learn the implicit transformation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Florian Kromp , Lukas Fischer , Eva Bozsaky , Inge Ambros , Wolfgang Doerr , Sabine Taschner-Mandl , Peter Ambros , Allan Hanbury

The improved diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound breast examinations remains an important goal. In this study, we propose a biophysical feature based machine learning method for breast cancer detection to improve the performance beyond a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Jihye Baek , Avice M. O'Connell , Kevin J. Parker

Purpose: To determine whether deep learning models can distinguish between breast cancer molecular subtypes based on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). Materials and methods: In this institutional review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Zhe Zhu , Ehab Albadawy , Ashirbani Saha , Jun Zhang , Michael R. Harowicz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Counting mitotic figures is time-intensive for pathologists and leads to inter-observer variability. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises a solution by automatically detecting mitotic figures while maintaining decision consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Seungho Choe , Xiaoli Qin , Abubakr Shafique , Amanda Dy , Susan Done , Dimitrios Androutsos , April Khademi

Traditional breast cancer image classification methods require manual extraction of features from medical images, which not only require professional medical knowledge, but also have problems such as time-consuming and labor-intensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Mengfan Li

Recognition of mitotic figures in histologic tumor specimens is highly relevant to patient outcome assessment. This task is challenging for algorithms and human experts alike, with deterioration of algorithmic performance under shifts in…