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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…
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…
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…
This abstract presents our solution (Team Westwood) for mitosis detection and atypical mitosis classification in the MItosis DOmain Generalization (MIDOG) 2025 challenge. For mitosis detection, we trained an nnUNetV2 for initial mitosis…
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…
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…
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…
Mitotic count (MC) is an important histological parameter for cancer diagnosis and grading, but the manual process for obtaining MC from whole-slide histopathological images is very time-consuming and prone to error. Therefore, deep…
This work presents a mitosis detection method with only one vanilla Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our method consists of two steps: given an image, we first apply a CNN using a sliding window technique to extract patches that have…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
MIDOG 2025 Track 1 requires mitosis detection in whole-slideimages (WSIs) containing non-tumor, inflamed, and necrotic re-gions. Due to the complicated and heterogeneous context, aswell as possible artifacts, there are often false positives…
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…
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…
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…
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…