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Accurate and robust medical image classification is a challenging task, especially in application domains where available annotated datasets are small and present high imbalance between target classes. Considering that data acquisition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Neil De La Fuente , Mireia Majó , Irina Luzko , Henry Córdova , Gloria Fernández-Esparrach , Jorge Bernal

Whole slide images~(WSIs) are digitized images of tissues placed in glass slides using advanced scanners. The digital processing of WSIs is challenging as they are gigapixel images and stored in multi-resolution format. A common challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani , Masoud Ganji

Histopathological images (HIs) are the gold standard for evaluating some types of tumors for cancer diagnosis. The analysis of such images is not only time and resource consuming, but also very challenging even for experienced pathologists,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jonathan de Matos , Steve Tsham Mpinda Ataky , Alceu de Souza Britto , Luiz Eduardo Soares de Oliveira , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In pathology image analysis, obtaining and maintaining high-quality annotated samples is an extremely labor-intensive task. To overcome this challenge, mixing-based methods have emerged as effective alternatives to traditional preprocessing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tianyi Zhang , Zhiling Yan , Chunhui Li , Nan Ying , Yanli Lei , Yunlu Feng , Yu Zhao , Guanglei Zhang

Cancer subtyping is one of the most challenging tasks in digital pathology, where Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) by processing gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) has been in the spotlight of recent research. However, MIL approaches do…

In digital pathology, segmenting densely distributed objects like glands and nuclei is crucial for downstream analysis. Since detailed pixel-wise annotations are very time-consuming, we need semi-supervised segmentation methods that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Meilong Xu , Xiaoling Hu , Saumya Gupta , Shahira Abousamra , Chao Chen

Digital pathology, augmented by artificial intelligence (AI), holds significant promise for improving the workflow of pathologists. However, challenges such as the labor-intensive annotation of whole slide images (WSIs), high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Walid Rehamnia , Alexandra Getmanskaya , Evgeniy Vasilyev , Vadim Turlapov

While medical image segmentation is an important task for computer aided diagnosis, the high expertise requirement for pixelwise manual annotations makes it a challenging and time consuming task. Since conventional data augmentations do not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Ankur Singh

As deep learning models grow in complexity and the volume of training data increases, reducing storage and computational costs becomes increasingly important. Dataset distillation addresses this challenge by synthesizing a compact set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhe Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Katharina Breininger , Peter Schüffler , Bernhard Kainz

In this paper, we propose a novel method for highly efficient follicular segmentation of thyroid cytopathological WSIs. Firstly, we propose a hybrid segmentation architecture, which integrates a classifier into Deeplab V3 by adding a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Siyan Tao , Yao Guo , Chuang Zhu , Huang Chen , Yue Zhang , Jie Yang , Jun Liu

We present DiffInfinite, a hierarchical diffusion model that generates arbitrarily large histological images while preserving long-range correlation structural information. Our approach first generates synthetic segmentation masks,…

Diagnoses from histopathology images rely on information from both high and low resolutions of Whole Slide Images. Ultra-Resolution Cascaded Diffusion Models (URCDMs) allow for the synthesis of high-resolution images that are realistic at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Sarah Cechnicka , Hadrien Reynaud , James Ball , Naomi Simmonds , Catherine Horsfield , Andrew Smith , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zak Buzzard , Konstantin Hemker , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

In computational pathology, researchers often face challenges due to the scarcity of labeled pathology datasets. Data augmentation emerges as a crucial technique to mitigate this limitation. In this study, we introduce an efficient data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jiamu Wang , Jin Tae Kwak

Recent advances in computer vision have shown promising results in image generation. Diffusion probabilistic models in particular have generated realistic images from textual input, as demonstrated by DALL-E 2, Imagen and Stable Diffusion.…

Whole slide imaging is fundamental to biomedical microscopy and computational pathology. Previously, learning representations for gigapixel-sized whole slide images (WSIs) has relied on multiple instance learning with weak labels, which do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinhai Hou , Cheng Jiang , Akhil Kondepudi , Yiwei Lyu , Asadur Chowdury , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon

Whole-slide images (WSIs) contain tissue information distributed across multiple magnification levels, yet most self-supervised methods treat these scales as independent views. This separation prevents models from learning representations…

High-quality whole-slide scanning is expensive, complex, and time-consuming, thus limiting the acquisition and utilization of high-resolution histopathology images in daily clinical work. Deep learning-based single-image super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Minghong Duan , Linhao Qu , Zhiwei Yang , Manning Wang , Chenxi Zhang , Zhijian Song

Current data augmentation techniques and transformations are well suited for improving the size and quality of natural image datasets but are not yet optimized for medical imaging. We hypothesize that sub-optimal data augmentations can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Tara M. Pattilachan , Ugur Demir , Elif Keles , Debesh Jha , Derk Klatte , Megan Engels , Sanne Hoogenboom , Candice Bolan , Michael Wallace , Ulas Bagci

Objective: The exchange of health-related data is subject to regional laws and regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Tom Bisson , Michael Franz , Isil Dogan O , Daniel Romberg , Christoph Jansen , Peter Hufnagl , Norman Zerbe