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For histopathological tumor assessment, the count of mitotic figures per area is an important part of prognostication. Algorithmic approaches - such as for mitotic figure identification - have significantly improved in recent times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Marc Aubreville , Christof A. Bertram , Samir Jabari , Christian Marzahl , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

We present a summary of the domain adaptive cascade R-CNN method for mitosis detection of digital histopathology images. By comprehensive data augmentation and adapting existing popular detection architecture, our proposed method has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Xi Long , Ying Cheng , Xiao Mu , Lian Liu , Jingxin Liu

The proliferative activity of breast tumors, which is routinely estimated by counting of mitotic figures in hematoxylin and eosin stained histology sections, is considered to be one of the most important prognostic markers. However, mitosis…

Mitotic figures represent a key histoprognostic feature in tumor pathology, providing crucial insights into tumor aggressiveness and proliferation. However, their identification remains challenging, subject to significant inter-observer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Raphaël Bourgade , Guillaume Balezo , Hana Feki , Lily Monier , Matthieu Blons , Alice Blondel , Delphine Loussouarn , Anne Vincent-Salomon , Thomas Walter

Mitotic figure detection in histopathology images remains challenging due to significant domain shifts across different scanners, staining protocols, and tissue types. This paper presents our approach for the MIDOG 2025 challenge Track 1,…

The account of mitotic cells is a key feature in tumor diagnosis. However, due to the variability of mitotic cell morphology, it is a highly challenging task to detect mitotic cells in tumor tissues. At the same time, although advanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Chen Yang , Wang Ziyue , Fang Zijie , Bian Hao , Zhang Yongbing

Each woman living in the United States has about 1 in 8 chance of developing invasive breast cancer. The mitotic cell count is one of the most common tests to assess the aggressiveness or grade of breast cancer. In this prognosis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Robin Elizabeth Yancey

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are important histopathological markers yet remain challenging to identify consistently, particularly under domain shift stemming from scanner, stain, and acquisition differences. We present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kaustubh Atey , Sameer Anand Jha , Gouranga Bala , Amit Sethi

Deep learning has driven significant advances in mitotic figure analysis within computational pathology. In this paper, we present our approach to the Mitosis Domain Generalization (MIDOG) 2025 Challenge, which consists of two distinct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Shuting Xu , Runtong Liu , Zhixuan Chen , Junlin Hou , Hao Chen

The variation in histologic staining between different medical centers is one of the most profound challenges in the field of computer-aided diagnosis. The appearance disparity of pathological whole slide images causes algorithms to become…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Martin J. Hetz , Tabea-Clara Bucher , Titus J. Brinker

Mitotic figure detection remains a challenging task in computational pathology due to domain variability and morphological complexity. This paper describes our participation in the MIDOG 2025 challenge, focusing on robust mitotic figure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Euiseop Song , Jaeyoung Park , Jaewoo Park

This report details our submission to the Mitotic Domain Generalization (MIDOG) 2025 challenge, which addresses the critical task of mitotic figure detection in histopathology for cancer prognostication. Following the "Bitter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Zhuoyan Shen , Esther Bär , Maria Hawkins , Konstantin Bräutigam , Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete

Domain shift is a significant problem in histopathology. There can be large differences in data characteristics of whole-slide images between medical centers and scanners, making generalization of deep learning to unseen data difficult. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Karin Stacke , Gabriel Eilertsen , Jonas Unger , Claes Lundström

For the MIDOG mitosis detection challenge, we created a cascade algorithm consisting of a Mask-RCNN detector, followed by a classification ensemble consisting of ResNet50 and DenseNet201 to refine detected mitotic candidates. The MIDOG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Gauthier Roy , Jules Dedieu , Capucine Bertrand , Alireza Moshayedi , Ali Mammadov , Stéphanie Petit , Saima Ben Hadj , Rutger H. J. Fick

Mitotic counting is a vital prognostic marker of tumor proliferation in breast cancer. Deep learning-based mitotic detection is on par with pathologists, but it requires large labeled data for training. We propose a deep classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Pushpak Pati , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez , Orcun Goksel , Maria Gabrani

Mitotic activity is a crucial proliferation biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of different types of cancers. Nevertheless, mitosis counting is a cumbersome process for pathologists, prone to low reproducibility, due to the large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Claudio Fernandez-Martín , Umay Kiraz , Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Sandra Morales , Emiel Janssen , Valery Naranjo

Introduction: Nottingham grading system is a major prognostic factor for invasive breast carcinoma (IBC). Its determination requires the evaluation of the mitotic score (MS) which is subject to low intra- and inter-observer reproducibility.…

The process of digitising histology slides involves multiple factors that can affect a whole slide image's (WSI) final appearance, including the staining protocol, scanner, and tissue type. This variability constitutes a domain shift and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Manahil Raza , Saad Bashir , Talha Qaiser , Nasir Rajpoot

Purpose: Medical images acquired using different scanners and protocols can differ substantially in their appearance. This phenomenon, scanner domain shift, can result in a drop in the performance of deep neural networks which are trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Brian Guo , Darui Lu , Gregory Szumel , Rongze Gui , Tingyu Wang , Nicholas Konz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Automated detection and classification of mitotic figures especially distinguishing atypical from normal remain critical challenges in computational pathology. We present MitoDetect++, a unified deep learning pipeline designed for the MIDOG…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Esha Sadia Nasir , Jiaqi Lv , Mostafa Jahanifar , Shan E Ahmed Raza