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We address the challenging problem of whole slide image (WSI) classification. WSIs have very high resolutions and usually lack localized annotations. WSI classification can be cast as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem when only…

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Deep-learning techniques have been used widely to alleviate the labour-intensive and time-consuming manual annotation required for pixel-level tissue characterization. Our previous study introduced an efficient single dynamic network -…

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Many skin lesion analysis (SLA) methods recently focused on developing a multi-modal-based multi-label classification method due to two factors. The first is multi-modal data, i.e., clinical and dermoscopy images, which can provide…

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Whole slide image (WSI) classification has emerged as a powerful tool in computational pathology, but remains constrained by domain shifts, e.g., due to different organs, diseases, or institution-specific variations. To address this…

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Computational analysis of whole slide images (WSIs) has seen significant research progress in recent years, with applications ranging across important diagnostic and prognostic tasks such as survival or cancer subtype prediction. Many…

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Tumor segmentation stands as a pivotal task in cancer diagnosis. Given the immense dimensions of whole slide images (WSI) in histology, deep learning approaches for WSI classification mainly operate at patch-wise or superpixel-wise level.…

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The rapidly emerging field of computational pathology has the potential to enable objective diagnosis, therapeutic response prediction and identification of new morphological features of clinical relevance. However, deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Richard J. Chen , Matteo Barbieri , Faisal Mahmood

In digital pathology, whole slide images (WSIs) are widely used for applications such as cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction. Visual transformer models have recently emerged as a promising method for encoding large regions of WSIs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuai Jiang , Liesbeth Hondelink , Arief A. Suriawinata , Saeed Hassanpour

Graph signal processing (GSP) is becoming a major tool in biomedical signal and image analysis. In most GSP techniques, graph structures and edge weights have been typically set via statistical and computational methods. More recently,…

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In modern cancer diagnostics, Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) is widely used to digitize tissue specimens for detailed, high-resolution examination; however, other diagnostic approaches, such as liquid biopsy and molecular testing, are also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Seyed Kahaki , Alexander R. Webber , Ghada Zamzmi , Adarsh Subbaswamy , Rucha Deshpande , Aldo Badano

Whole-slide image (WSI) classification is a challenging task because 1) patches from WSI lack annotation, and 2) WSI possesses unnecessary variability, e.g., stain protocol. Recently, Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) has made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Joohyung Lee , Heejeong Nam , Kwanhyung Lee , Sangchul Hahn

Whole slide images (WSI) provide valuable phenotypic information for histological assessment and malignancy grading of tumors. The WSI-based grading promises to provide rapid diagnostic support and facilitate digital health. Currently, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Lipei Zhang , Yiran Wei , Ying Fu , Stephen Price , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Chao Li

Advances in optical microscopy scanning have significantly contributed to computational pathology (CPath) by converting traditional histopathological slides into whole slide images (WSIs). This development enables comprehensive digital…

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Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is a subtype of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). LUAD with mutation in the EGFR gene accounts for approximately 46% of LUAD cases. Patients carrying EGFR mutations can be treated with specific tyrosine kinase…

Accurate characterization of glioma is crucial for clinical decision making. A delineation of the tumor is also desirable in the initial decision stages but is a time-consuming task. Leveraging the latest GPU capabilities, we developed a…

Melanoma diagnosed and treated in its early stages can increase the survival rate. A projected increase in skin cancer incidents and a dearth of dermatopathologists have emphasized the need for computational pathology (CPATH) systems. CPATH…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Neel Kanwal , Roger Amundsen , Helga Hardardottir , Luca Tomasetti , Erling Sandoy Undersrud , Emiel A. M. Janssen , Kjersti Engan

Researchers working on computational analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) in histopathology have primarily resorted to patch-based modelling due to large resolution of each WSI. The large resolution makes WSIs infeasible to be fed directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Suvidha Tripathi , Satish Kumar Singh , Hwee Kuan Lee

Histopathological analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has seen a surge in the utilization of deep learning methods, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, CNNs often fall short in capturing the intricate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Siemen Brussee , Giorgio Buzzanca , Anne M. R. Schrader , Jesper Kers

Due to the difficulty of cancer samples collection and annotation, cervical cancer datasets usually exhibit a long-tailed data distribution. When training a detector to detect the cancer cells in a WSI (Whole Slice Image) image captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Minmin Liu , Xuechen Li , Xiangbo Gao , Junliang Chen , Linlin Shen , Huisi Wu

In this study, we present the Graph Sub-Graph Network (GSN), a novel hybrid image classification model merging the strengths of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for feature extraction and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for structural…

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