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Standard of care diagnostic procedure for suspected skin cancer is microscopic examination of hematoxylin \& eosin stained tissue by a pathologist. Areas of high inter-pathologist discordance and rising biopsy rates necessitate higher…

Pathology is the study of microscopic inspection of tissue, and a pathology diagnosis is often the medical gold standard to diagnose disease. Pathology images provide a unique challenge for computer-vision-based analysis: a single pathology…

Histopathological images contain rich phenotypic information that can be used to monitor underlying mechanisms contributing to diseases progression and patient survival outcomes. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Chetan L. Srinidhi , Ozan Ciga , Anne L. Martel

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) continue to pose challenges for multimodal understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Fengchun Liu , Songhan Jiang , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

Weak supervision learning on classification labels has demonstrated high performance in various tasks, while a few pixel-level fine annotations are also affordable. Naturally a question comes to us that whether the combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiahui Li , Wen Chen , Xiaodi Huang , Zhiqiang Hu , Qi Duan , Hongsheng Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shaoting Zhang

In digital pathology, whole-slide images routinely exceed gigapixel resolution, making computationally intensive generative super-resolution (SR) impractical for routine deployment. We introduce CAFlow, an adaptive-depth single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elad Yoshai , Ariel D. Yoshai , Natan T. Shaked

Advances in digitizing tissue slides and the fast-paced progress in artificial intelligence, including deep learning, have boosted the field of computational pathology. This field holds tremendous potential to automate clinical diagnosis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Andrew H. Song , Guillaume Jaume , Drew F. K. Williamson , Ming Y. Lu , Anurag Vaidya , Tiffany R. Miller , Faisal Mahmood

Histopathology tissue analysis is considered the gold standard in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Given the large size of these images and the increase in the number of potential cancer cases, an automated solution as an aid to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Mahendra Khened , Avinash Kori , Haran Rajkumar , Balaji Srinivasan , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

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

General-purpose Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), despite their massive scale, often falter in dermatology due to "diffuse attention" - the inability to disentangle subtle pathological lesions from background noise. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lijun Liu , Linwei Chen , Zhishou Zhang , Meng Tian , Hengfu Cui , Ruiyang Li , Zhaocheng Liu , Qiang Ju , Qianxi Li , Hong-Yu Zhou

Large-scale image data such as digital whole-slide histology images pose a challenging task at annotation software solutions. Today, a number of good solutions with varying scopes exist. For cell annotation, however, we find that many do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Marc Aubreville , Christof Bertram , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology. Yet, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often acquired at gigapixel sizes, rendering them computationally infeasible to analyze entirely at high resolution. Diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Tarun G , Naman Malpani , Gugan Thoppe , Sridharan Devarajan

Whole-slide image analysis is essential for diagnostic tasks in pathology, yet existing deep learning methods primarily rely on flat classification, ignoring hierarchical relationships among class labels. In this study, we propose HiClass,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Keunho Byeon , Jinsol Song , Seong Min Hong , Yosep Chong , Jin Tae Kwak

Deep learning models show promise in digital pathology, but their opaque decision-making processes limit trust and clinical adoption. To address this challenge, we present HIPPO, an explainable AI method for analyzing weakly-supervised…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Jakub R. Kaczmarzyk , Chanwoo Kim , Soham Gadgil , Deepika Savant , Zhen Zhao , Joel H. Saltz , Su-In Lee , Peter K. Koo

Histopathology can help clinicians make accurate diagnoses, determine disease prognosis, and plan appropriate treatment strategies. As deep learning techniques prove successful in the medical domain, the primary challenges become limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhe Li , Bernhard Kainz

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into pathology is advancing precision medicine by improving diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient outcomes. Digitised whole-slide images (WSIs) capture rich spatial and morphological…

The expanding adoption of digital pathology has enabled the curation of large repositories of histology whole slide images (WSIs), which contain a wealth of information. Similar pathology image search offers the opportunity to comb through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Chengkuan Chen , Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Andrew J. Schaumberg , Faisal Mahmood

This paper presents an autoencoder-based neural network architecture to compress histopathological images while retaining the denser and more meaningful representation of the original images. Current research into improving compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Agnes Barsi , Suvendu Chandan Nayak , Sasmita Parida , Raj Mani Shukla

The increasing availability of large institutional and public histopathology image datasets is enabling the searching of these datasets for diagnosis, research, and education. Though these datasets typically have associated metadata such as…

Recent advances in whole-slide image (WSI) scanners and computational capabilities have significantly propelled the application of artificial intelligence in histopathology slide analysis. While these strides are promising, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Weiyi Wu , Chongyang Gao , Joseph DiPalma , Soroush Vosoughi , Saeed Hassanpour