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Histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) are being widely used to develop deep learning-based diagnostic solutions, especially for precision oncology. Most of these diagnostic softwares are vulnerable to biases and impurities in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Abhijeet Patil , Harsh Diwakar , Jay Sawant , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Subhash Yadav , Swapnil Rane , Tripti Bameta , Amit Sethi

Histopathology remains the gold standard for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. With the advent of transcriptome profiling, multi-modal learning combining transcriptomics with histology offers more comprehensive information. However, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Yupei Zhang , Xiaofei Wang , Anran Liu , Lequan Yu , Chao Li

Cell classification and counting in immunohistochemical cytoplasm staining images play a pivotal role in cancer diagnosis. Weakly supervised learning is a potential method to deal with labor-intensive labeling. However, the inconstant cell…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Shichuan Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Honglin Li , Jiatong Cai , Lin Yang

We study the use of deep features extracted from a pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT) as dense visual descriptors. We observe and empirically demonstrate that such features, when extractedfrom a self-supervised ViT model (DINO-ViT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shir Amir , Yossi Gandelsman , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel

Correct treatment of urothelial carcinoma patients is dependent on accurate grading and staging of the cancer tumour. This is determined manually by a pathologist by examining the histological whole-slide images (WSI). The large size of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Rune Wetteland , Kjersti Engan , Trygve Eftestøl , Vebjørn Kvikstad , Emilius A. M. Janssen

In digital histopathology, entire neoplasm segmentation on Whole Slide Image (WSI) of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) plays an important role, especially as a preprocessing filter to automatically exclude healthy tissue, in histological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Zhuxian Guo , Qitong Wang , Henning Müller , Themis Palpanas , Nicolas Loménie , Camille Kurtz

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) or histopathology images are used in digital pathology. WSIs pose great challenges to deep learning models for clinical diagnosis, owing to their size and lack of pixel-level annotations. With the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Soham Rohit Chitnis , Sidong Liu , Tirtharaj Dash , Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar , Antonio Di Ieva , Shlomo Berkovsky , Lovekesh Vig , Ashwin Srinivasan

Automatic integration of whole slide images (WSIs) and gene expression profiles has demonstrated substantial potential in precision clinical diagnosis and cancer progression studies. However, most existing studies focus on individual gene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Junzhuo Liu , Xuemei Du , Daniel Reisenbuchler , Ye Chen , Markus Eckstein , Christian Matek , Friedrich Feuerhake , Dorit Merhof

Molecular phenotyping by gene expression profiling is common in contemporary cancer research and in molecular diagnostics. However, molecular profiling remains costly and resource intense to implement, and is just starting to be introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Philippe Weitz , Yinxi Wang , Kimmo Kartasalo , Lars Egevad , Johan Lindberg , Henrik Grönberg , Martin Eklund , Mattias Rantalainen

Deep learning is a powerful tool for whole slide image (WSI) analysis. Typically, when performing supervised deep learning, a WSI is divided into small patches, trained and the outcomes are aggregated to estimate disease grade. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yi Zheng , Rushin H. Gindra , Emily J. Green , Eric J. Burks , Margrit Betke , Jennifer E. Beane , Vijaya B. Kolachalama

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

The histopathology analysis is of great significance for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancers, however, it has great challenges due to the enormous heterogeneity of gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) and the intricate representation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Mingxin Liu , Yunzan Liu , Pengbo Xu , Jiquan Ma

Histopathology Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis serves as the gold standard for clinical cancer diagnosis in the daily routines of doctors. To develop computer-aided diagnosis model for WSIs, previous methods typically employ Multi-Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Honglin Li , Yunlong Zhang , Pingyi Chen , Zhongyi Shui , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

We present a pioneering investigation into the application of deep learning techniques to analyze histopathological images for addressing the substantial challenge of automated prognostic prediction. Prognostic prediction poses a unique…

The immense success of deep learning based methods in computer vision heavily relies on large scale training datasets. These richly annotated datasets help the network learn discriminative visual features. Collecting and annotating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Yash Patel , Lluis Gomez , Raul Gomez , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

We developed a software pipeline for quality control (QC) of histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) that segments various regions, such as blurs of different levels, tissue regions, tissue folds, and pen marks. Given the necessity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Abhijeet Patil , Garima Jain , Harsh Diwakar , Jay Sawant , Tripti Bameta , Swapnil Rane , Amit Sethi

Early cancer detection remains one of the most critical challenges in modern healthcare, where delayed diagnosis significantly reduces survival outcomes. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Emmanuella Avwerosuoghene Oghenekaro

In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Zhipeng Jia , Xingyi Huang , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

With the increase in the use of deep learning for computer-aided diagnosis in medical images, the criticism of the black-box nature of the deep learning models is also on the rise. The medical community needs interpretable models for both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Mookund Sureka , Abhijeet Patil , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Recent advances in machine learning are transforming medical image analysis, particularly in cancer detection and classification. Techniques such as deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Arezoo Borji , Gernot Kronreif , Bernhard Angermayr , Sepideh Hatamikia