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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 activity is a crucial proliferation biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of different types of cancers. Nevertheless, mitosis counting is a cumbersome process for pathologists, prone to low reproducibility, due to the large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Claudio Fernandez-Martín , Umay Kiraz , Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Sandra Morales , Emiel Janssen , Valery Naranjo

The process of digitising histology slides involves multiple factors that can affect a whole slide image's (WSI) final appearance, including the staining protocol, scanner, and tissue type. This variability constitutes a domain shift and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Manahil Raza , Saad Bashir , Talha Qaiser , Nasir Rajpoot

Mitosis nuclei count is one of the important indicators for the pathological diagnosis of breast cancer. The manual annotation needs experienced pathologists, which is very time-consuming and inefficient. With the development of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Huadeng Wang , Zhipeng Liu , Rushi Lan , Zhenbing Liu , Xiaonan Luo , Xipeng Pan , Bingbing Li

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

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

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

Mitotic figure detection in histology images is a hard-to-define, yet clinically significant task, where labels are generated with pathologist interpretations and where there is no ``gold-standard'' independent ground-truth. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Cagla Deniz Bahadir , Benjamin Liechty , David J. Pisapia , Mert R. Sabuncu

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

Medical data often exhibits distribution shifts, which cause test-time performance degradation for deep learning models trained using standard supervised learning pipelines. This challenge is addressed in the field of Domain Generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Aleksandr Matsun , Numan Saeed , Fadillah Adamsyah Maani , Mohammad Yaqub

Recognition of mitotic figures in histologic tumor specimens is highly relevant to patient outcome assessment. This task is challenging for algorithms and human experts alike, with deterioration of algorithmic performance under shifts in…

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

We propose a two-step domain shift-invariant mitosis cell detection method based on Faster RCNN and a convolutional neural network (CNN). We generate various domain-shifted versions of existing histopathology images using a stain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ramin Nateghi , Fattaneh Pourakpour

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

Despite the recent success of domain generalization in medical image segmentation, voxel-wise annotation for all source domains remains a huge burden. Semi-supervised domain generalization has been proposed very recently to combat this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Muyang Qiu , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Each woman living in the United States has about 1 in 8 chance of developing invasive breast cancer. The mitotic cell count is one of the most common tests to assess the aggressiveness or grade of breast cancer. In this prognosis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Robin Elizabeth Yancey

Multi-modal learning has shown exceptional performance in various tasks, especially in medical applications, where it integrates diverse medical information for comprehensive diagnostic evidence. However, there still are several challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Lin Fan , Yafei Ou , Cenyang Zheng , Pengyu Dai , Tamotsu Kamishima , Masayuki Ikebe , Kenji Suzuki , Xun Gong

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

Multi-rater medical image segmentation captures the inherent ambiguity of clinical interpretation, where diagnostic boundaries vary across experts and imaging devices. Existing approaches often reduce this diversity to consensus labels or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Armin Khosravi , Alireza Kheyrkhah , Reza Azad , Mauricio Reyes , Dorit Merhof

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