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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

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are clinically relevant indicators of abnormal cell division, yet their reliable detection remains challenging due to morphological ambiguity and scanner variability. In this work, we investigated three…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Biwen Meng , Xi Long , Jingxin Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Youjin Chung , Jihoon Cho , Jinah Park

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

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

Motivation: Accurate classification of mitotic figures into normal and atypical types is crucial for tumor prognostication in digital pathology. However, developing robust deep learning models for this task is challenging due to the subtle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Sujatha Kotte , Vangala Govindakrishnan Saipradeep , Vidushi Walia , Dhandapani Nandagopal , Thomas Joseph , Naveen Sivadasan , Bhagat Singh Lali

The MIDOG 2025 challenge extends prior work on mitotic figure detection by introducing a new Track 2 on atypical mitosis classification. This task aims to distinguish normal from atypical mitotic figures in histopathology images, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Leire Benito-Del-Valle , Pedro A. Moreno-Sánchez , Itziar Egusquiza , Itsaso Vitoria , Artzai Picón , Cristina López-Saratxaga , Adrian Galdran

Studies estimate that there will be 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,920 breast cancer induced deaths in the year of 2018 alone. Despite the pervasiveness of this affliction, the current process to obtain an accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Siddhant Rao

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 tackle atypical versus normal mitosis classification in the MIDOG 2025 challenge using EfficientViT-L2, a hybrid CNN--ViT architecture optimized for accuracy and efficiency. A unified dataset of 13,938 nuclei from seven cancer types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Xuan Qi , Dominic Labella , Thomas Sanford , Maxwell Lee

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

Mitosis detection is one of the fundamental tasks in computational pathology, which is extremely challenging due to the heterogeneity of mitotic cell. Most of the current studies solve the heterogeneity in the technical aspect by increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hao Wang , Jiatai Lin , Danyi Li , Jing Wang , Bingchao Zhao , Zhenwei Shi , Xipeng Pan , Huadeng Wang , Bingbing Li , Changhong Liang , Guoqiang Han , Li Liang , Chu Han , Zaiyi Liu

Accurate detection of mitosis plays a critical role in breast cancer histopathology. Manual detection and counting of mitosis is tedious and subject to considerable inter- and intra-reader variations. Multispectral imaging is a recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-16 H. Irshad , A. Gouaillard , L. Roux , D. Racoceanu

Mitotic counts are one of the key indicators of breast cancer prognosis. However, accurate mitotic cell counting is still a difficult problem and is labourious. Automated methods have been proposed for this task, but are usually dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Salar Razavi , Fariba Dambandkhameneh , Dimitri Androutsos , Susan Done , April Khademi

This is a write-up of our method submitted to Mitosis Domain Generalization (MIDOG 2021) Challenge held in MICCAI2021 conference.

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Satoshi Kondo

Mitotic activity is an important feature for grading several cancer types. Counting mitotic figures (MFs) is a time-consuming, laborious task prone to inter-observer variation. Inaccurate recognition of MFs can lead to incorrect grading and…

Histopathological analysis is the present gold standard for precancerous lesion diagnosis. The goal of automated histopathological classification from digital images requires supervised training, which requires a large number of expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Yuan Xue , Jiarong Ye , Qianying Zhou , Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Carl Cornwell , Richard Zaino , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Mitotic figures are classified into typical and atypical variants, with atypical counts correlating strongly with tumor aggressiveness. Accurate differentiation is therefore essential for patient prognostication and resource allocation, yet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Mieko Ochi , Bae Yuan

In medical imaging, most of the image registration methods implicitly assume a one-to-one correspondence between the source and target images (i.e., diffeomorphism). However, this is not necessarily the case when dealing with pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Matthis Maillard , Anton François , Joan Glaunès , Isabelle Bloch , Pietro Gori

Manual count of mitotic figures, which is determined in the tumor region with the highest mitotic activity, is a key parameter of most tumor grading schemes. It can be, however, strongly dependent on the area selection due to uneven mitotic…