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Deep-learning-based pipelines have shown the potential to revolutionalize microscopy image diagnostics by providing visual augmentations to a trained pathology expert. However, to match human performance, the methods rely on the…

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with over two million new cases each year. During diagnostic tumour grading, pathologists manually count the number of dividing cells (mitotic figures) in biopsy or tumour…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Jack Breen , Kieran Zucker , Nicolas M. Orsi , Nishant Ravikumar

With a continuously growing availability of annotated datasets of mitotic figures in histology images, finding the best way to optimally use with this unprecedented amount of data to optimally train deep learning models has become a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Maxime W. Lafarge , Viktor H. Koelzer

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

Cancer detection and classification from gigapixel whole slide images of stained tissue specimens has recently experienced enormous progress in computational histopathology. The limitation of available pixel-wise annotated scans shifted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mehdi Naouar , Gabriel Kalweit , Ignacio Mastroleo , Philipp Poxleitner , Marc Metzger , Joschka Boedecker , Maria Kalweit

Density of mitotic figures in histologic sections is a prognostically relevant characteristic for many tumours. Due to high inter-pathologist variability, deep learning-based algorithms are a promising solution to improve tumour…

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 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

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

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

The success of deep learning methods in medical image segmentation tasks heavily depends on a large amount of labeled data to supervise the training. On the other hand, the annotation of biomedical images requires domain knowledge and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xinrong Hu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

Cell detection and segmentation is fundamental for all downstream analysis of digital pathology images. However, obtaining the pixel-level ground truth for single cell segmentation is extremely labor intensive. To overcome this challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Alireza Chamanzar , Yao Nie

Accurate liver segmentation in multi-phase MRI is vital for liver fibrosis assessment, yet labeled data is often scarce and unevenly distributed across imaging modalities and vendor systems. We propose a label-efficient segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Quang-Khai Bui-Tran , Minh-Toan Dinh , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Ba-Thinh Lam , Mai-Anh Vu , Ulas Bagci

Accurate detection of mitosis plays a critical role in breast cancer histopathology. Manual detection and counting of mitosis is tedious and subject to considerable inter- and intra-reader variations. Multispectral imaging is a recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-16 H. Irshad , A. Gouaillard , L. Roux , D. Racoceanu

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

Cancer grading is an essential task in pathology. The recent developments of artificial neural networks in computational pathology have shown that these methods hold great potential for improving the accuracy and quality of cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jaeung Lee , Keunho Byeon , Jin Tae Kwak

Atypical mitosis marks a deviation in the cell division process that has been shown be an independent prognostic marker for tumor malignancy. However, atypical mitosis classification remains challenging due to low prevalence, at times…

Nuclei instance segmentation on histopathology images is of great clinical value for disease analysis. Generally, fully-supervised algorithms for this task require pixel-wise manual annotations, which is especially time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yang Zhou , Yongjian Wu , Zihua Wang , Bingzheng Wei , Maode Lai , Jianzhong Shou , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Patch-wise multi-label classification provides an efficient alternative to full pixel-wise segmentation on high-resolution images, particularly when the objective is to determine the presence or absence of target objects within a patch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ihab Asaad , Maha Shadaydeh , Joachim Denzler

With the development of deep learning, medical image classification has been significantly improved. However, deep learning requires massive data with labels. While labeling the samples by human experts is expensive and time-consuming,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Jiarun Liu , Ruirui Li , Chuan Sun