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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

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,…

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

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

The variation in histologic staining between different medical centers is one of the most profound challenges in the field of computer-aided diagnosis. The appearance disparity of pathological whole slide images causes algorithms to become…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Martin J. Hetz , Tabea-Clara Bucher , Titus J. Brinker

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Hongyan Gu , Mohammad Haeri , Shuo Ni , Christopher Kazu Williams , Neda Zarrin-Khameh , Shino Magaki , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

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

This paper describes our contribution to the MIDOG 2022 challenge for detecting mitotic cells. One of the major problems to be addressed in the MIDOG 2022 challenge is the robustness under the natural variance that appears for real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jonas Annuscheit , Christian Krumnow

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

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

We cast the problem of image denoising as a domain translation problem between high and low noise domains. By modifying the cycleGAN model, we are able to learn a mapping between these domains on unpaired retinal optical coherence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Ilja Manakov , Markus Rohm , Christoph Kern , Benedikt Schworm , Karsten Kortuem , Volker Tresp

Mitotic count is the most important morphological feature of breast cancer grading. Many deep learning-based methods have been proposed but suffer from domain shift. In this work, we construct a Fourier-based segmentation model for mitosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sen Yang , Feng Luo , Jun Zhang , Xiyue Wang

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Xi Long , Ying Cheng , Xiao Mu , Lian Liu , Jingxin Liu

The reliable identification of mitotic figures in whole-slide histopathological images remains difficult, owing to their low prevalence, substantial morphological heterogeneity, and the inconsistencies introduced by tissue processing and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Navya Sri Kelam , Akash Parekh , Saikiran Bonthu , Nitin Singhal

The proliferative activity of breast tumors, which is routinely estimated by counting of mitotic figures in hematoxylin and eosin stained histology sections, is considered to be one of the most important prognostic markers. However, mitosis…