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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

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 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

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

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

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

We propose a two-step domain shift-invariant mitosis cell detection method based on Faster RCNN and a convolutional neural network (CNN). We generate various domain-shifted versions of existing histopathology images using a stain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ramin Nateghi , Fattaneh Pourakpour

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Tirupati Saketh Chandr , Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Amit Sethi

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

Assessing the Mitotic Count has a known high degree of intra- and inter-rater variability. Computer-aided systems have proven to decrease this variability and reduce labeling time. These systems, however, are generally highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Frauke Wilm , Christian Marzahl , Katharina Breininger , Marc Aubreville

Detection of mitosis events plays an important role in biomedical research. Deep-learning-based mitosis detection methods have achieved outstanding performance with a certain amount of labeled data. However, these methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kazuya Nishimura , Ami Katanaya , Shinichiro Chuma , Ryoma Bise

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

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,…

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are important histopathological markers yet remain challenging to identify consistently, particularly under domain shift stemming from scanner, stain, and acquisition differences. We present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kaustubh Atey , Sameer Anand Jha , Gouranga Bala , Amit Sethi

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

Empirical evaluation of breast tissue biopsies for mitotic nuclei detection is considered an important prognostic biomarker in tumor grading and cancer progression. However, automated mitotic nuclei detection poses several challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Anabia Sohail , Muhammad Ahsan Mukhtar , Asifullah Khan , Muhammad Mohsin Zafar , Aneela Zameer , Saranjam Khan

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…

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

Automated mitotic detection in time-lapse phasecontrast microscopy provides us much information for cell behavior analysis, and thus several mitosis detection methods have been proposed. However, these methods still have two problems; 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise