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Histopathological image analysis is an essential process for the discovery of diseases such as cancer. However, it is challenging to train CNN on whole slide images (WSIs) of gigapixel resolution considering the available memory capacity.…

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In recent years, the integration of advanced imaging techniques and deep learning methods has significantly advanced computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer detection and classification. Transformers, which have shown great…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been recently used for a variety of histology image analysis. However, availability of a large dataset is a major prerequisite for training a CNN which limits its use by the computational pathology…

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The tumor microenvironment (TME) has emerged as a promising source of prognostic biomarkers. To fully leverage its potential, analysis methods must capture complex interactions between different cell types. We propose HiGINE -- a…

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Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and leading cause of cancer-related death among females worldwide. In this article, we investigate the applicability of densely connected convolutional neural networks to the problems of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Matthias Kohl , Christoph Walz , Florian Ludwig , Stefan Braunewell , Maximilian Baust

Scene graph aims to faithfully reveal humans' perception of image content. When humans analyze a scene, they usually prefer to describe image gist first, namely major objects and key relations in a scene graph. This humans' inherent…

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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

Graph-based learning approaches, due to their ability to encode tissue/organ structure information, are increasingly favored for grading colorectal cancer histology images. Recent graph-based techniques involve dividing whole slide images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Sudipta Paul , Bulent Yener , Amanda W. Lund

In practice, histopathological diagnosis of tumor malignancy often requires a human expert to scan through histopathological images at multiple magnification levels, after which a final diagnosis can be accurately determined. However,…

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Breast cancer has become one of the most prevalent cancers by which people all over the world are affected and is posed serious threats to human beings, in a particular woman. In order to provide effective treatment or prevention of this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Pouya Hallaj Zavareh , Atefeh Safayari , Hamidreza Bolhasani

Computer aided detection and diagnosis systems based on deep learning have shown promising performance in breast cancer detection. However, there are cases where the obtained results lack justification. In this study, our objective is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Imane Nedjar , Mohammed Brahimi , Said Mahmoudi , Khadidja Abi Ayad , Mohammed Amine Chikh

Molecular subtyping of breast cancer is crucial for personalized treatment and prognosis. Traditional classification approaches rely on either histopathological images or gene expression profiling, limiting their predictive power. In this…

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Bladder cancer is one of the most prevalent malignancies worldwide, with a recurrence rate of up to 78%, necessitating accurate post-operative monitoring for effective patient management. Multi-sequence contrast-enhanced MRI is commonly…

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Histopathologic Images (HI) are the gold standard for evaluation of some tumors. However, the analysis of such images is challenging even for experienced pathologists, resulting in problems of inter and intra observer. Besides that, the…

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Understanding how the spatial structure of blood vessel networks relates to their function in healthy and abnormal biological tissues could improve diagnosis and treatment for diseases such as cancer. New imaging techniques can generate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-23 Helen M Byrne , Heather A Harrington , Ruth Muschel , Gesine Reinert , Bernadette J Stolz , Ulrike Tillmann

Breast Cancer is a major cause of death worldwide among women. Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained breast tissue samples from biopsies are observed under microscopes for the primary diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Aditya Golatkar , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

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

Pathology deals with the practice of discovering the reasons for disease by analyzing the body samples. The most used way in this field, is to use histology which is basically studying and viewing microscopic structures of cell and tissues.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 Virender Ranga , Shivam Gupta , Priyansh Agrawal , Jyoti Meena

The rapid identification and accurate diagnosis of breast cancer, known as the killer of women, have become greatly significant for those patients. Numerous breast cancer histopathological image classification methods have been proposed.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Luyuan Xie , Cong Li , Zirui Wang , Xin Zhang , Boyan Chen , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu

The interactions between tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment (TME) dictate therapeutic efficacy of radiation and many systemic therapies in breast cancer. However, to date, there is not a widely available method to reproducibly…