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Explainable AI (XAI) in medical histopathology is essential for enhancing the interpretability and clinical trustworthiness of deep learning models in cancer diagnosis. However, the black-box nature of these models often limits their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Raktim Kumar Mondol , Ewan K. A. Millar , Peter H. Graham , Lois Browne , Arcot Sowmya , Erik Meijering

Breast cancer is the most common cancer type in women worldwide. Early detection and appropriate treatment can significantly reduce its impact. While histopathology examinations play a vital role in rapid and accurate diagnosis, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nematollah Saeidi , Hossein Karshenas , Bijan Shoushtarian , Sepideh Hatamikia , Ramona Woitek , Amirreza Mahbod

We propose a novel computational framework leveraging hypergraph theory to analyse cancer stem cell markers (CSCMs) across multiple organs. Hypergraphs provide a robust representation of CSCM co-expression patterns, capturing their complex…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 David H. Margarit , Gustavo Paccosi , Marcela V. Reale , Lilia M. Romanelli

Modern histopathological image analysis relies on the segmentation of cell structures to derive quantitative metrics required in biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. State-of-the-art deep learning approaches predominantly apply…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Yoav Alon , Huiyu Zhou

This paper explores the problem of breast tissue classification of microscopy images. Based on the predominant cancer type the goal is to classify images into four categories of normal, benign, in situ carcinoma, and invasive carcinoma.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Kamyar Nazeri , Azad Aminpour , Mehran Ebrahimi

Histopathology image segmentation is essential for delineating tissue structures in skin cancer diagnostics, but modeling spatial context and inter-tissue relationships remains a challenge, especially in regions with overlapping or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shravan Venkatraman , Muthu Subash Kavitha , Joe Dhanith P R , V Manikandarajan , Jia Wu

We propose HookNet, a semantic segmentation model for histopathology whole-slide images, which combines context and details via multiple branches of encoder-decoder convolutional neural networks. Concentricpatches at multiple resolutions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Mart van Rijthoven , Maschenka Balkenhol , Karina Siliņa , Jeroen van der Laak , Francesco Ciompi

Cytoarchitecture describes the spatial organization of neuronal cells in the brain, including their arrangement into layers and columns with respect to cell density, orientation, or presence of certain cell types. It allows to segregate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-02 Christian Schiffer , Stefan Harmeling , Katrin Amunts , Timo Dickscheid

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in women. Early detection and treatment are imperative for improving survival rates, which have steadily increased in recent years as a result of more sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , AmirAbbas Davari , Stephan Ellmann , Andreas Maier

In the past ten years, with the help of deep learning, especially the rapid development of deep neural networks, medical image analysis has made remarkable progress. However, how to effectively use the relational information between various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Zhihua Liu

Breast cancer is one of the main causes of cancer death worldwide. Early diagnostics significantly increases the chances of correct treatment and survival, but this process is tedious and often leads to a disagreement between pathologists.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Alexander Rakhlin , Alexey Shvets , Vladimir Iglovikov , Alexandr A. Kalinin

Digitization of histology images and the advent of new computational methods, like deep learning, have helped the automatic grading of colorectal adenocarcinoma cancer (CRA). Present automated CRA grading methods, however, usually use tiny…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Neda Zamanitajeddin , Mostafa Jahanifar , Nasir Rajpoot

Histopathological images of tumors contain abundant information about how tumors grow and how they interact with their micro-environment. Better understanding of tissue phenotypes in these images could reveal novel determinants of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Adalberto Claudio Quiros , Roderick Murray-Smith , Ke Yuan

We introduce a new benchmark dataset, Placenta, for node classification in an underexplored domain: predicting microanatomical tissue structures from cell graphs in placenta histology whole slide images. This problem is uniquely challenging…

In clinical practice, human radiologists actually review medical images with high resolution monitors and zoom into region of interests (ROIs) for a close-up examination. Inspired by this observation, we propose a hierarchical graph neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Hao Du , Jiashi Feng , Mengling Feng

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Faisal Ahmed

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hayder A. Khikani , Naira Elazab , Ahmed Elgarayhi , Mohammed Elmogy , Mohammed Sallah

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) based on histopathological imaging has progressed rapidly in recent years with the rise of machine learning based methodologies. Traditional approaches consist of training a classification model using features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Suchitra Kunhoth , Turker Ince , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Ridha Hamila , Moncef Gabbouj

Histopathology remains the gold standard for diagnosis of various cancers. Recent advances in computer vision, specifically deep learning, have facilitated the analysis of histopathology images for various tasks, including immune cell…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-02 Jakub R. Kaczmarzyk , Tahsin M. Kurc , Shahira Abousamra , Rajarsi Gupta , Joel H. Saltz , Peter K. Koo

Background: Breast cancer has the highest prevalence in women globally. The classification and diagnosis of breast cancer and its histopathological images have always been a hot spot of clinical concern. In Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yuchao Zheng , Chen Li , Xiaomin Zhou , Haoyuan Chen , Hao Xu , Yixin Li , Haiqing Zhang , Xiaoyan Li , Hongzan Sun , Xinyu Huang , Marcin Grzegorzek