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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

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

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

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

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

Automated detection of mitotic figures in histopathology images has seen vast improvements, thanks to modern deep learning-based pipelines. Application of these methods, however, is in practice limited by strong variability of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Marc Aubreville , Christof Bertram , Mitko Veta , Robert Klopfleisch , Nikolas Stathonikos , Katharina Breininger , Natalie ter Hoeve , Francesco Ciompi , Andreas Maier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MIDOG 2025 Track 1 requires mitosis detection in whole-slideimages (WSIs) containing non-tumor, inflamed, and necrotic re-gions. Due to the complicated and heterogeneous context, aswell as possible artifacts, there are often false positives…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Jie Xiao , Mengye Lyu , Shaojun Liu

This work addresses how to efficiently classify challenging histopathology images, such as gigapixel whole-slide images for cancer diagnostics with image-level annotation. We use images with annotated tumor regions to identify a set of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed , Mary-Anne Hartley , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

This is the submission for mitosis detection in the context of the MIDOG 2021 challenge. It is based on the two-stage objection model Faster RCNN as well as DenseNet as a backbone for the neural network architecture. It achieves a F1-score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Michel Halmes , Hippolyte Heuberger , Sylvain Berlemont

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

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

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

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