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Mitotic figure detection is a challenging task in digital pathology that has a direct impact on therapeutic decisions. While automated methods often achieve acceptable results under laboratory conditions, they frequently fail in the…
Recognition of mitotic figures in histologic tumor specimens is highly relevant to patient outcome assessment. This task is challenging for algorithms and human experts alike, with deterioration of algorithmic performance under shifts in…
The detection of mitotic figures from different scanners/sites remains an important topic of research, owing to its potential in assisting clinicians with tumour grading. The MItosis DOmain Generalization (MIDOG) challenge aims to test the…
The density of mitotic figures within tumor tissue is known to be highly correlated with tumor proliferation and thus is an important marker in tumor grading. Recognition of mitotic figures by pathologists is known to be subject to a strong…
Recognizing atypical mitotic figures in histopathology images allows physicians to correctly assess tumor aggressiveness. Although machine learning models could be exploited for automatically performing such a task, under domain shift these…
Automated detection of mitotic figures in histopathology images has seen vast improvements, thanks to modern deep learning-based pipelines. Application of these methods, however, is in practice limited by strong variability of images…
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,…
The effective localization of mitosis is a critical precursory task for deciding tumor prognosis and grade. Automated mitosis detection through deep learning-oriented image analysis often fails on unseen patient data due to inherent domain…
Domain variability is a common bottle neck in developing generalisable algorithms for various medical applications. Motivated by the observation that the domain variability of the medical images is to some extent compact, we propose to…
Automated detection of mitotic figures in histopathology images is a challenging task: here, we present the different steps that describe the strategy we applied to participate in the MIDOG 2021 competition. The purpose of the competition…
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with over two million new cases each year. During diagnostic tumour grading, pathologists manually count the number of dividing cells (mitotic figures) in biopsy or tumour…
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…
Preparing and scanning histopathology slides consists of several steps, each with a multitude of parameters. The parameters can vary between pathology labs and within the same lab over time, resulting in significant variability of the…
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…
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…
Making histopathology image classifiers robust to a wide range of real-world variability is a challenging task. Here, we describe a candidate deep learning solution for the Mitosis Domain Generalization Challenge 2022 (MIDOG) to address the…
We propose a new training scheme for domain generalization in mitotic figure detection. Mitotic figures show different characteristics for each scanner. We consider each scanner as a 'domain' and the image distribution specified for each…
Counting of mitotic figures is a fundamental step in grading and prognostication of several cancers. However, manual mitosis counting is tedious and time-consuming. In addition, variation in the appearance of mitotic figures causes a high…
Counting mitotic figures is time-intensive for pathologists and leads to inter-observer variability. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises a solution by automatically detecting mitotic figures while maintaining decision consistency.…
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…