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Lung cancer is a global and dangerous disease, and its early detection is crucial to reducing the risks of mortality. In this regard, it has been of great interest in developing a computer-aided system for pulmonary nodules detection as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Bum-Chae Kim , Jun-Sik Choi , Heung-Il Suk

Automated breast cancer detection via computer vision techniques is challenging due to the complex nature of breast tissue, the subtle appearance of cancerous lesions, and variations in breast density. Mainstream techniques primarily focus…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-11 Noor Ul Huda Shah , Tanveer Hussain , Amr Ahmed , Yonghuai Liu , Usman Ali , Ardhendu Behera

With a continuously growing availability of annotated datasets of mitotic figures in histology images, finding the best way to optimally use with this unprecedented amount of data to optimally train deep learning models has become a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Maxime W. Lafarge , Viktor H. Koelzer

Mitosis count is an important biomarker for prognosis of various cancers. At present, pathologists typically perform manual counting on a few selected regions of interest in breast whole-slide-images (WSIs) of patient biopsies. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Saad Ullah Akram , Talha Qaiser , Simon Graham , Juho Kannala , Janne Heikkilä , Nasir Rajpoot

Atypical mitotic figures are important biomarkers of tumor aggressiveness in histopathology, yet reliable recognition remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and variability across imaging domains. We present a DenseNet-121-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adinath Dukre , Ankan Deria , Yutong Xie , Imran Razzak

Mitotic activity is key for the assessment of malignancy in many tumors. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the proportion of abnormal mitosis to normal mitosis is of prognostic significance. Atypical mitotic figures (MF) can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Marc Aubreville , Jonathan Ganz , Jonas Ammeling , Taryn A. Donovan , Rutger H. J. Fick , Katharina Breininger , Christof A. Bertram

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

Detection of pulmonary nodules in chest CT imaging plays a crucial role in early diagnosis of lung cancer. Manual examination is highly time-consuming and error prone, calling for computer-aided detection, both to improve efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Zhongliu Xie

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,…

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Jakob Dexl , Michaela Benz , Volker Bruns , Petr Kuritcyn , Thomas Wittenberg

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Maxime W. Lafarge , Viktor H. Koelzer

We propose a virtual staining methodology based on Generative Adversarial Networks to map histopathology images of breast cancer tissue from H&E stain to PHH3 and vice versa. We use the resulting synthetic images to build Convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Caner Mercan , Germonda Reijnen-Mooij , David Tellez Martin , Johannes Lotz , Nick Weiss , Marcel van Gerven , Francesco Ciompi

The NuCLS dataset contains over 220.000 annotations of cell nuclei in breast cancers. We show how to use these data to create a multi-rater model with the MIScnn Framework to automate the analysis of cell nuclei. For the model creation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Adrian Pfleiderer , Dominik Müller , Frank Kramer

Accurate identification of breast cancer types plays a critical role in guiding treatment decisions and improving patient outcomes. This paper presents an artificial intelligence enabled tool designed to aid in the identification of breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Neil Chaudhary , Zaynah Dhunny

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths, but current programs are expensive and prone to false positives, leading to unnecessary follow-up and patient anxiety. This paper proposes a solution to automated breast cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Debajyoti Chakraborty

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the top three malignant tumor types in terms of morbidity and mortality. Histopathological images are the gold standard for diagnosing colon cancer. Cellular nuclei instance segmentation and classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Liangrui Pan , Lian Wang , Zhichao Feng , Zhujun Xu , Liwen Xu , Shaoliang Peng

Recent researches attempt to improve the detection performance by adopting the idea of cascade for single-stage detectors. In this paper, we analyze and discover that inconsistency is the major factor limiting the performance. The refined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Hongkai Zhang , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

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

In this paper we propose a workflow to detect and track mitotic cells in time-lapse microscopy image sequences. In order to avoid the requirement for cell lines expressing fluorescent markers and the associated phototoxicity, phase contrast…