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High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is the most important imaging modality for interstitial lung diseases, where the radiologists are interested in identifying certain patterns, and their volumetric and regional distribution. The use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Martin Längkvist , Jonas Widell , Per Thunberg , Amy Loutfi , Mats Lidén

Accurate annotation of medical image is the crucial step for image AI clinical application. However, annotating medical image will incur a great deal of annotation effort and expense due to its high complexity and needing experienced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Yue Xu , Qianxi Yang , Shuo Zhang , Mingwang Zhu , Jirang Sun , Weiling Zhao , Xiaobo Zhou , Kehong Yuan

In recent years, the use of deep learning (DL) methods, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced computational pathology, enhancing both diagnostic accuracy and efficiency.…

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lower respiratory tract and naturally occurs in humans and animals including horses. The annotation of an asthma microscopy whole slide image (WSI) is an extremely labour-intensive task due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Christian Marzahl , Christof A. Bertram , Frauke Wilm , Jörn Voigt , Ann K. Barton , Robert Klopfleisch , Katharina Breininger , Andreas Maier , Marc Aubreville

Deep learning has revolutionized the accurate segmentation of diseases in medical imaging. However, achieving such results requires training with numerous manual voxel annotations. This requirement presents a challenge for whole-body…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Matthias Hadlich , Zdravko Marinov , Moon Kim , Enrico Nasca , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Detecting anatomical landmarks in medical imaging is essential for diagnosis and intervention guidance. However, object detection models rely on costly bounding box annotations, limiting scalability. Weakly Semi-Supervised Object Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Adrien Meyer , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is a powerful method to facilitate the diagnosis of cancer in tissue samples. Automating this diagnosis poses various issues, most notably caused by the immense image resolution and limited annotations. WSIs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Ahmet Gokberk Gul , Oezdemir Cetin , Christoph Reich , Tim Prangemeier , Nadine Flinner , Heinz Koeppl

The vast majority of semantic segmentation approaches rely on pixel-level annotations that are tedious and time consuming to obtain and suffer from significant inter and intra-expert variability. To address these issues, recent approaches…

High-fidelity registration of histopathological whole slide images (WSIs), such as hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) and immunohistochemistry (IHC), is vital for integrated molecular analysis but challenging to evaluate without ground-truth (GT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Shikha Dubey , Patricia Raciti , Kristopher Standish , Albert Juan Ramon , Erik Ames Burlingame

Active learning enhances annotation efficiency by selecting the most revealing samples for labeling, thereby reducing reliance on extensive human input. Previous methods in semantic segmentation have centered on individual pixels or small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinchao Ge , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Bowen Zhang , Akide Liu , Yang Zhao , Shuwen Zhao

Recent advances in whole slide imaging (WSI) technology have led to the development of a myriad of computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) based diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive algorithms. Computational Pathology (CPath)…

Cytology is a valuable tool for early detection of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). However, manual examination of cytology whole slide images (WSIs) is slow, subjective, and depends heavily on expert pathologists. To address this, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Rupam Mukherjee , Rajkumar Daniel , Soujanya Hazra , Shirin Dasgupta , Subhamoy Mandal

Annotating medical images demands significant time and expertise, often requiring pathologists to invest hundreds of hours in labeling mammary epithelial nuclei datasets. We address this critical challenge by achieving 95.5% Dice score…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Varun Kumar Dasoju , Qingsu Cheng , Zeyun Yu

This paper does not describe a novel method. Instead, it studies an essential foundation for reliable benchmarking and ultimately real-world application of AI-based image analysis: generating high-quality reference annotations. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Tim Rädsch , Annika Reinke , Vivienn Weru , Minu D. Tizabi , Nicholas Heller , Fabian Isensee , Annette Kopp-Schneider , Lena Maier-Hein

The expensive fine-grained annotation and data scarcity have become the primary obstacles for the widespread adoption of deep learning-based Whole Slide Images (WSI) classification algorithms in clinical practice. Unlike few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kexue Fu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Linhao Qu , Shuo Wang , Ying Xiong , Ilias Maglogiannis , Longxiang Gao , Manning Wang

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental task in histopathology image analysis. Typically, such segmentation tasks require significant effort to manually generate accurate pixel-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Hui Qu , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Jingru Yi , Zhennan Yan , Kang Li , Gregory M. Riedlinger , Subhajyoti De , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Recent advancements in Digital Pathology (DP), particularly through artificial intelligence and Foundation Models, have underscored the importance of large-scale, diverse, and richly annotated datasets. Despite their critical role, publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Dmitry Nechaev , Alexey Pchelnikov , Ekaterina Ivanova

Nuclei segmentation is a crucial task for whole slide image analysis in digital pathology. Generally, the segmentation performance of fully-supervised learning heavily depends on the amount and quality of the annotated data. However, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Yi Lin , Zhiyong Qu , Hao Chen , Zhongke Gao , Yuexiang Li , Lili Xia , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Rapid growth in the development of medical imaging analysis technology has been propelled by the great interest in improving computer-aided diagnosis and detection (CAD) systems for three popular image visualization tasks: classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Manu Goyal , Moi Hoon Yap , Saeed Hassanpour

Precise identification of multiple cell classes in high-resolution Giga-pixel whole slide imaging (WSI) is critical for various clinical scenarios. Building an AI model for this purpose typically requires pixel-level annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Xueyuan Li , Ruining Deng , Yucheng Tang , Shunxing Bao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo