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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Gennaro Percannella , Mattia Sarno , Francesco Tortorella , Mario Vento

Mitotic figure (MF) detection in histopathology images is challenging due to large variations in slide scanners, staining protocols, tissue types, and the presence of artifacts. This paper presents a collection of training techniques - a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Christian Marzahl , Brian Napora

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

We present a novel approach which extends the existing Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detector (FCOS) for mitotic figure detection. Our composite model adds a Feedback Attention Ladder CNN (FAL-CNN) model for classification of normal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Andrew Broad , Jason Keighley , Lucy Godson , Alex Wright

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,…

This is the submission for mitosis detection in the context of the MIDOG 2021 challenge. It is based on the two-stage objection model Faster RCNN as well as DenseNet as a backbone for the neural network architecture. It achieves a F1-score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Michel Halmes , Hippolyte Heuberger , Sylvain Berlemont

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

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

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Seungho Choe , Xiaoli Qin , Abubakr Shafique , Amanda Dy , Susan Done , Dimitrios Androutsos , April Khademi

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

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

Mitosis detection is one of the challenging problems in computational pathology, and mitotic count is an important index of cancer grading for pathologists. However, current counts of mitotic nuclei rely on pathologists looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Huadeng Wang , Hao Xu , Bingbing Li , Xipeng Pan , Lingqi Zeng , Rushi Lan , Xiaonan Luo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mostafa Jahanifar , Adam Shephard , Neda Zamanitajeddin , Simon Graham , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Fayyaz Minhas , Nasir Rajpoot

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved high accuracy for cardiac structure segmentation if training cases and testing cases are from the same distribution. However, the performance would be degraded if the testing cases are from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Jun Ma

Domain shift in the field of histopathological imaging is a common phenomenon due to the intra- and inter-hospital variability of staining and digitization protocols. The implementation of robust models, capable of creating generalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ilán Carretero , Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

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

Mitotic figure count is an important marker of tumor proliferation and has been shown to be associated with patients' prognosis. Deep learning based mitotic figure detection methods have been utilized to automatically locate the cell in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jingtang Liang , Cheng Wang , Yujie Cheng , Zheng Wang , Fang Wang , Liyu Huang , Zhibin Yu , Yubo Wang

In certain types of cancerous tissue, mitotic count has been shown to be associated with tumor proliferation, poor prognosis, and therapeutic resistance. Due to the high inter-rater variability of mitotic counting by pathologists,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ruiwen Ding , James Hall , Neil Tenenholtz , Kristen Severson

Object detection typically assumes that training and test data are drawn from an identical distribution, which, however, does not always hold in practice. Such a distribution mismatch will lead to a significant performance drop. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Christos Sakaridis , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Domain shift in digital histopathology can occur when different stains or scanners are used, during stain translation, etc. A deep neural network trained on source data may not generalise well to data that has undergone some domain shift.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Zeeshan Nisar , Jelica Vasiljević , Pierre Gançarski , Thomas Lampert