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Objective: This article presents an automatic image processing framework to extract quantitative high-level information describing the micro-environment of glomeruli in consecutive whole slide images (WSIs) processed with different staining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Odyssee Merveille , Thomas Lampert , Jessica Schmitz , Germain Forestier , Friedrich Feuerhake , Cédric Wemmert

Labelling tissue components in histology whole slide images (WSIs) is prohibitively labour-intensive: a single slide may contain tens of thousands of structures--cells, nuclei, and other morphologically distinct objects--each requiring…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-13 Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad , Sharmila Rajendran , Damion Young , Jon Mason

Accurate detection and segmentation of glomeruli in kidney tissue are essential for diagnostic applications. Traditional deep learning methods primarily rely on semantic segmentation, which often fails to precisely delineate adjacent…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Behnaz Elhaminia , Catherine King , Jiaqi Lv , Lorraine Harper , Paul Moss , Owen Cain , Dimitrios Chanouzas , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Whole slide image (WSI) registration is an essential task for analysing the tumour microenvironment (TME) in histopathology. It involves the alignment of spatial information between WSIs of the same section or serial sections of a tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Behnaz Elhaminia , Abdullah Alsalemi , Esha Nasir , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ruqayya Awan , Lawrence S. Young , Nasir M. Rajpoot , Fayyaz Minhas , Shan E Ahmed Raza

There has been a long pursuit for precise and reproducible glomerular quantification on renal pathology to leverage both research and practice. When digitizing the biopsy tissue samples using whole slide imaging (WSI), a set of serial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ruining Deng , Haichun Yang , Aadarsh Jha , Yuzhe Lu , Peng Chu , Agnes B. Fogo , Yuankai Huo

Whole-slide images (WSIs) are fundamental for computational pathology, where accurate lesion segmentation is critical for clinical decision making. Existing methods partition WSIs into discrete patches, disrupting spatial continuity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yunheng Wu , Wenqi Huang , Liangyi Wang , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Daniel Rueckert , Kensaku Mori

We demonstrate a simple and effective automated method for the segmentation of glomeruli from large (~1 gigapixel) histopathological whole-slide images (WSIs) of thin renal tissue sections and biopsies, using an adaptation of the well-known…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-21 Olivier Simon , Rabi Yacoub , Sanjay Jain , Pinaki Sarder

Segmentation of microvascular structures, such as arterioles, venules, and capillaries, from human kidney whole slide images (WSI) has become a focal point in renal pathology. Current manual segmentation techniques are time-consuming and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Franklin Hu , Ruining Deng , Shunxing Bao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Whole slide images (WSIs) are the gold standard for pathological diagnosis and sub-typing. Current main-stream two-step frameworks employ offline feature encoders trained without domain-specific knowledge. Among them, attention-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingrui Ma , Chentao Li , Pan Huang , Jing Qin

Comprehensive semantic segmentation on renal pathological images is challenging due to the heterogeneous scales of the objects. For example, on a whole slide image (WSI), the cross-sectional areas of glomeruli can be 64 times larger than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Can Cui , Tianyuan Yao , Jun Long , Zuhayr Asad , R. Michael Womick , Zheyu Zhu , Agnes B. Fogo , Shilin Zhao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Recognition of glomeruli lesions is the key for diagnosis and treatment planning in kidney pathology; however, the coexisting glomerular structures such as mesangial regions exacerbate the difficulties of this task. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Yang Nan , Fengyi Li , Peng Tang , Guyue Zhang , Caihong Zeng , Guotong Xie , Zhihong Liu , Guang Yang

We focus on tertiary lymphoid structure (TLS) semantic segmentation in whole slide image (WSI). Unlike TLS binary segmentation, TLS semantic segmentation identifies boundaries and maturity, which requires integrating contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Lei Su , Yang Du

Whole slide imaging (WSI) refers to the digitization of a tissue specimen which enables pathologists to explore high-resolution images on a monitor rather than through a microscope. The formation of tissue folds occur during tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Morteza Babaie , H. R. Tizhoosh

Accurate and efficient cell nuclei detection and classification in histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are pivotal for digital pathology applications. Traditional cell segmentation approaches, while commonly used, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Oscar Pina , Eduard Dorca , Verónica Vilaplana

This paper addresses the problem of liver cancer segmentation in Whole Slide Image (WSI). We propose a multi-scale image processing method based on automatic end-to-end deep neural network algorithm for segmentation of cancer area. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Yanbo Feng , Adel Hafiane , Hélène Laurent

Instance segmentation is one of the fundamental vision tasks. Recently, fully convolutional instance segmentation methods have drawn much attention as they are often simpler and more efficient than two-stage approaches like Mask R-CNN. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Hao Chen , Kunyang Sun , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Yongming Huang , Youliang Yan

Deep learning methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are difficult to directly utilize to analyze whole slide images (WSIs) due to the large image dimensions. We overcome this limitation by proposing a novel two-stage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Shivam Kalra , Mohammed Adnan , Sobhan Hemati , Taher Dehkharghanian , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Hamid Tizhoosh

Whole slide images (WSIs) pose unique challenges when training deep learning models. They are very large which makes it necessary to break each image down into smaller patches for analysis, image features have to be extracted at multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Sharon Nofech-Mozes , Shawna Noy , Fang-I Lu , Anne L. Martel

The whole slide histopathology images (WSIs) play a critical role in gastric cancer diagnosis. However, due to the large scale of WSIs and various sizes of the abnormal area, how to select informative regions and analyze them are quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Shujun Wang , Yaxi Zhu , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Huangjing Lin , Xiangbo Wan , Xinjuan Fan , Pheng-Ann Hen

With the increasing imaging and processing capabilities of today's mobile devices, user authentication using iris biometrics has become feasible. However, as the acquisition conditions become more unconstrained and as image quality is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Shejin Thavalengal , Peter Corcoran