English
Related papers

Related papers: HACT-Net: A Hierarchical Cell-to-Tissue Graph Neur…

200 papers

Robust segmentation for non-elongated tissues in medical images is hard to realize due to the large variation of the shape, size, and appearance of these tissues in different patients. In this paper, we present an end-to-end trainable deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yefeng Zheng , Yang Gao , Jianbing Zhu , Yakang Dai

Convolutional neural networks excel in histopathological image classification, yet their pixel-level focus hampers explainability. Conversely, emerging graph convolutional networks spotlight cell-level features and medical implications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Ziqi Yang , Zhongyu Li , Chen Liu , Xiangde Luo , Xingguang Wang , Dou Xu , Chaoqun Li , Xiaoying Qin , Meng Yang , Long Jin

Histopathology images contain essential information for medical diagnosis and prognosis of cancerous disease. Segmentation of glands in histopathology images is a primary step for analysis and diagnosis of an unhealthy patient. Due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Safiyeh Rezaei , Ali Emami , Hamidreza Zarrabi , Shima Rafiei , Kayvan Najarian , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr

Spatial transcriptomics has the potential to transform our understanding of RNA expression in tissues. Classical array-based technologies produce multiple-cell-scale measurements requiring deconvolution to recover single cell information.…

As medical imaging is central to diagnostic processes, automating the generation of radiology reports has become increasingly relevant to assist radiologists with their heavy workloads. Most current methods rely solely on global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hamza Kalisch , Fabian Hörst , Jens Kleesiek , Ken Herrmann , Constantin Seibold

In digital pathology, both detection and classification of cells are important for automatic diagnostic and prognostic tasks. Classifying cells into subtypes, such as tumor cells, lymphocytes or stromal cells is particularly challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shahira Abousamra , David Belinsky , John Van Arnam , Felicia Allard , Eric Yee , Rajarsi Gupta , Tahsin Kurc , Dimitris Samaras , Joel Saltz , Chao Chen

Diagnosis of breast cancer malignancy at the early stages is a crucial step for controlling its side effects. Histopathological analysis provides a unique opportunity for malignant breast cancer detection. However, such a task would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Ardavan Modarres , Erfan Ebrahim Esfahani , Mahsa Bahrami

Breast cancer histopathology image classification is critical for early detection and improved patient outcomes. 1 This study introduces a novel approach leveraging EfficientNetV2 models, to improve feature extraction and focus on relevant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Naren Sengodan

The gold standard for gastric cancer detection is gastric histopathological image analysis, but there are certain drawbacks in the existing histopathological detection and diagnosis. In this paper, based on the study of computer aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Haiqing Zhang , Chen Li , Shiliang Ai , Haoyuan Chen , Yuchao Zheng , Yixin Li , Xiaoyan Li , Hongzan Sun , Xinyu Huang , Marcin Grzegorzek

Graph neural networks have emerged as a promising paradigm for image processing, yet their performance in image classification tasks is hindered by a limited consideration of the underlying structure and relationships among visual entities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Usama Zidan , Mohamed Gaber , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

Histology method is vital in the diagnosis and prognosis of cancers and many other diseases. For the analysis of histopathological images, we need to detect and segment all gland structures. These images are very challenging, and the task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Safiye Rezaei , Ali Emami , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Accurate classification of breast cancer histopathology images is pivotal for early oncological diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.However, conventional deep learning architectures often encounter performance degradation under limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lin-Guo Gao , Suxing Liu

The increase in high-dimensional multiomics data demands advanced integration models to capture the complexity of human diseases. Graph-based deep learning integration models, despite their promise, struggle with small patient cohorts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sina Tabakhi , Charlotte Vandermeulen , Ian Sudbery , Haiping Lu

To address the challenges of similarity between lesions and surrounding tissues, overlapping appearances of partially benign and malignant nodules, and difficulty in classification, a deep learning network that integrates CNN and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Xin Zhao , Qianqian Zhu , Jialing Wu

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) response prediction for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients is a challenging task clinically as it requires understanding complex histology interactions within the tumor microenvironment (TME).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Qiang Li , George Teodoro , Yi Jiang , Jun Kong

Deep convolutional neural networks(CNNs) have been successful for a wide range of computer vision tasks, including image classification. A specific area of the application lies in digital pathology for pattern recognition in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Rasoul Sali , Sodiq Adewole , Lubaina Ehsan , Lee A. Denson , Paul Kelly , Beatrice C. Amadi , Lori Holtz , Syed Asad Ali , Sean R. Moore , Sana Syed , Donald E. Brown

In the complex landscape of hematologic samples such as peripheral blood or bone marrow, cell classification, delineating diverse populations into a hierarchical structure, presents profound challenges. This study presents LeukoGraph, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Fatemeh Nassajian Mojarrad , Lorenzo Bini , Thomas Matthes , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Cell detection is a fundamental task in computational pathology that can be used for extracting high-level medical information from whole-slide images. For accurate cell detection, pathologists often zoom out to understand the tissue-level…

Recent 2D-to-3D human pose estimation works tend to utilize the graph structure formed by the topology of the human skeleton. However, we argue that this skeletal topology is too sparse to reflect the body structure and suffer from serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Han Li , Bowen Shi , Wenrui Dai , Yabo Chen , Botao Wang , Yu Sun , Min Guo , Chenlin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Accurate interpretation of histopathological images demands integration of information across spatial and semantic scales, from nuclear morphology and cellular textures to global tissue organization and disease-specific patterns. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yating Huang , Qijun Yang , Lintao Xiang , Hujun Yin