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Many renal cancers are incidentally found on non-contrast CT (NCCT) images. On contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) images, most kidney tumors, especially renal cancers, have different intensity values compared to normal tissues. However, on NCCT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Taro Hatsutani , Akimichi Ichinose , Keigo Nakamura , Yoshiro Kitamura

Whole Slide Image (WSI) representation is critical for cancer subtyping, cancer recognition and mutation prediction.Training an end-to-end WSI representation model poses significant challenges, as a standard gigapixel slide can contain tens…

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Digital pathology provides an excellent opportunity for applying fully convolutional networks (FCNs) to tasks, such as semantic segmentation of whole slide images (WSIs). However, standard FCNs face challenges with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Feng Gu , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Mats Andersson , Lena Kajland Wilen

Deep learning methods are widely used for medical applications to assist medical doctors in their daily routines. While performances reach expert's level, interpretability (highlight how and what a trained model learned and why it makes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Antoine Pirovano , Hippolyte Heuberger , Sylvain Berlemont , Saïd Ladjal , Isabelle Bloch

In this paper, we propose a new image instance segmentation method that segments individual glands (instances) in colon histology images. This is a task called instance segmentation that has recently become increasingly important. The…

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We present a weak to strong generalization methodology for fully automated training of a multi-head extension of the Mask-RCNN method with efficient channel attention for reliable segmentation of overlapping cell nuclei in multiplex cyclic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Lin Bai , Xiaoyang Li , Liqiang Huang , Quynh Nguyen , Hien Van Nguyen , Saurabh Prasad , Dragan Maric , John Redell , Pramod Dash , Badrinath Roysam

The thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs) manifest in renal biopsy histology with a broad spectrum of acute and chronic findings. Precise diagnostic criteria for a renal biopsy diagnosis of TMA are missing. As a first step towards a machine…

Segmenting histology images into diagnostically relevant regions is imperative to support timely and reliable decisions by pathologists. To this end, computer-aided techniques have been proposed to delineate relevant regions in scanned…

Nuclei instance segmentation on histopathology images is of great clinical value for disease analysis. Generally, fully-supervised algorithms for this task require pixel-wise manual annotations, which is especially time-consuming and…

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Precise segmentation and anatomical identification of the vertebrae provides the basis for automatic analysis of the spine, such as detection of vertebral compression fractures or other abnormalities. Most dedicated spine CT and MR scans as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Nikolas Lessmann , Bram van Ginneken , Pim A. de Jong , Ivana Išgum

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a key algorithm for classification of whole slide images (WSI). Histology WSIs can have billions of pixels, which create enormous computational and annotation challenges. Typically, such images are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Andriy Myronenko , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

Due to the recent advancements in machine vision, digital pathology has gained significant attention. Histopathology images are distinctly rich in visual information. The tissue glass slide images are utilized for disease diagnosis.…

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Segmentation from renal pathological images is a key step in automatic analyzing the renal histological characteristics. However, the performance of models varies significantly in different types of stained datasets due to the appearance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Ke Mei , Chuang Zhu , Lei Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuanyuan Qiao

Digital pathology has attracted significant attention in recent years. Analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is challenging because they are very large, i.e., of Giga-pixel resolution. Identifying Regions of Interest (ROIs) is the first…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 A Nugaliyadde , Kok Wai Wong , Jeremy Parry , Ferdous Sohel , Hamid Laga , Upeka V. Somaratne , Chris Yeomans , Orchid Foster

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern, necessitating precise and efficient image analysis to aid diagnosis and treatment planning. Automated segmentation of kidney pathology images plays a central role in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Mingyang Zhu , Yuqiu Liang , Jiacheng Wang

Objective: Accurate visual classification of bladder tissue during Trans-Urethral Resection of Bladder Tumor (TURBT) procedures is essential to improve early cancer diagnosis and treatment. During TURBT interventions, White Light Imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Jorge F. Lazo , Benoit Rosa , Michele Catellani , Matteo Fontana , Francesco A. Mistretta , Gennaro Musi , Ottavio de Cobelli , Michel de Mathelin , Elena De Momi

Renal biopsies are the gold standard for the diagnosis of kidney diseases. Lesion scores made by renal pathologists are semi-quantitative and exhibit high inter-observer variability. Automating lesion classification within segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhan Xiong , Junling He , Pieter Valkema , Tri Q. Nguyen , Maarten Naesens , Jesper Kers , Fons J. Verbeek

Segmenting the boundary between tumor and healthy tissue during surgical cancer resection poses a significant challenge. In recent years, Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) combined with Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as a promising solution.…

We address the challenging problem of whole slide image (WSI) classification. WSIs have very high resolutions and usually lack localized annotations. WSI classification can be cast as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem when only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Bin Li , Yin Li , Kevin W. Eliceiri

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) play a crucial role in accurate cancer diagnosis and prognosis, as they provide tissue details at the cellular level. However, the rapid growth of computational tasks involving WSIs poses significant challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Doanh C. Bui , Hoai Luan Pham , Vu Trung Duong Le , Tuan Hai Vu , Van Duy Tran , Khang Nguyen , Yasuhiko Nakashima