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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 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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Euiseop Song , Jaeyoung Park , Jaewoo Park

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 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Maxime W. Lafarge , Viktor H. Koelzer

Accurate mitotic figure classification is crucial in computational pathology, as mitotic activity informs cancer grading and patient prognosis. Distinguishing atypical mitotic figures (AMFs), which indicate higher tumor aggressiveness, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hana Feki , Alice Blondel , Thomas Walter

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Huadeng Wang , Hao Xu , Bingbing Li , Xipeng Pan , Lingqi Zeng , Rushi Lan , Xiaonan Luo

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

Melanoma detection is vital for early diagnosis and effective treatment. While deep learning models on dermoscopic images have shown promise, they require specialized equipment, limiting their use in broader clinical settings. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Volodymyr Sydorskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Oleksii Yakubenko

For the MIDOG mitosis detection challenge, we created a cascade algorithm consisting of a Mask-RCNN detector, followed by a classification ensemble consisting of ResNet50 and DenseNet201 to refine detected mitotic candidates. The MIDOG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Gauthier Roy , Jules Dedieu , Capucine Bertrand , Alireza Moshayedi , Ali Mammadov , Stéphanie Petit , Saima Ben Hadj , Rutger H. J. Fick

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chawan Piansaddhayanon , Sakun Santisukwongchote , Shanop Shuangshoti , Qingyi Tao , Sira Sriswasdi , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

The difficulty of detecting mitosis and its similarity to non-mitosis objects has remained a challenge in computational pathology. The lack of publicly available data has added more complexity. Deep learning algorithms have shown potentials…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Seyed H. Mirjahanmardi , Samir Mitha , Salar Razavi , Susan Done , April Khademi

Mitotic figures represent a key histoprognostic feature in tumor pathology, providing crucial insights into tumor aggressiveness and proliferation. However, their identification remains challenging, subject to significant inter-observer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Raphaël Bourgade , Guillaume Balezo , Hana Feki , Lily Monier , Matthieu Blons , Alice Blondel , Delphine Loussouarn , Anne Vincent-Salomon , Thomas Walter

Melanoma is considered to be the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Due to the similar shape of malignant and benign cancerous lesions, doctors spend considerably more time when diagnosing these findings. At present, the evaluation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Daniel Kvak

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

Brain plays a crucial role in regulating body functions and cognitive processes, with brain tumors posing significant risks to human health. Precise and prompt detection is a key factor in proper treatment and better patient outcomes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Roham Maiti , Debasmita Bhoumik

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

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

Identification and counting of cells and mitotic figures is a standard task in diagnostic histopathology. Due to the large overall cell count on histological slides and the potential sparse prevalence of some relevant cell types or mitotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Marc Aubreville , Maximilian Krappmann , Christof Bertram , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Salar Razavi , Fariba Dambandkhameneh , Dimitri Androutsos , Susan Done , April Khademi