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The diagnosis and prognosis of cancer are typically based on multi-modal clinical data, including histology images and genomic data, due to the complex pathogenesis and high heterogeneity. Despite the advancements in digital pathology and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-15 Zeyu Zhang , Yuanshen Zhao , Jingxian Duan , Yaou Liu , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhi-Cheng Li

Automated whole slide image (WSI) tagging has become a growing demand due to the increasing volume and diversity of WSIs collected nowadays in histopathology. Various methods have been studied to classify WSIs with single tags but none of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Weijian Li , Viet-Duy Nguyen , Haofu Liao , Matt Wilder , Ke Cheng , Jiebo Luo

Histology slide digitization is becoming essential for telepathology (remote consultation), knowledge sharing (education), and using the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms (augmented/automated end-to-end clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Talat Zehra , Joseph Marino , Wendy Wang , Grigoriy Frantsuzov , Saad Nadeem

Histopathological whole slide image (WSI) analysis with deep learning has become a research focus in computational pathology. The current paradigm is mainly based on multiple instance learning (MIL), in which approaches with Transformer as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hongbo Chu , Qiehe Sun , Jiawen Li , Yuxuan Chen , Lizhong Zhang , Tian Guan , Anjia Han , Yonghong He

Joint analysis of multiple biomarker images and tissue morphology is important for disease diagnosis, treatment planning and drug development. It requires cross-staining comparison among Whole Slide Images (WSIs) of immuno-histochemical and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Abubakr Shafique , Morteza Babaie , Mahjabin Sajadi , Adrian Batten , Soma Skdar , H. R. Tizhoosh

Enhancing the robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks is crucial, especially in critical domains like healthcare where significant financial interests heighten the risk of such attacks. Whole slide images (WSIs) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani , Masoud Ganji

Learning high-quality, self-supervised, visual representations is essential to advance the role of computer vision in biomedical microscopy and clinical medicine. Previous work has focused on self-supervised representation learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Cheng Jiang , Xinhai Hou , Akhil Kondepudi , Asadur Chowdury , Christian W. Freudiger , Daniel A. Orringer , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon

Generating diagnostic text from histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is challenging due to the gigapixel scale of the input and the requirement for precise, domain specific language. We propose a hierarchical vision language framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ahmet Halici , Ece Tugba Cebeci , Musa Balci , Mustafa Cini , Serkan Sokmen

Digitized histopathology glass slides, known as Whole Slide Images (WSIs), are often several gigapixels large and contain sensitive metadata information, which makes distributed processing unfeasible. Moreover, artifacts in WSIs may result…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yuandou Wang , Neel Kanwal , Kjersti Engan , Chunming Rong , Zhiming Zhao

Accurate classification of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) and Regions of Interest (ROIs) is a fundamental challenge in computational pathology. While mainstream approaches often adopt Multiple Instance Learning (MIL), they struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mingxi Fu , Xitong Ling , Yuxuan Chen , Jiawen Li , fanglei fu , Huaitian Yuan , Tian Guan , Yonghong He , Lianghui Zhu

In modern cancer diagnostics, Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) is widely used to digitize tissue specimens for detailed, high-resolution examination; however, other diagnostic approaches, such as liquid biopsy and molecular testing, are also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Seyed Kahaki , Alexander R. Webber , Ghada Zamzmi , Adarsh Subbaswamy , Rucha Deshpande , Aldo Badano

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are giga-pixel in scale and are typically partitioned into small instances in WSI classification pipelines for computational feasibility. However, obtaining extensive instance level annotations is costly, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jayanie Bogahawatte , Sachith Seneviratne , Saman Halgamuge

Objective: This article presents an automatic image processing framework to extract quantitative high-level information describing the micro-environment of glomeruli in consecutive whole slide images (WSIs) processed with different staining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Odyssee Merveille , Thomas Lampert , Jessica Schmitz , Germain Forestier , Friedrich Feuerhake , Cédric Wemmert

Advancements in digital pathology and computing resources have made a significant impact in the field of computational pathology for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, access to high-quality labeled histopathological images of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Masoud Tafavvoghi , Lars Ailo Bongo , Nikita Shvetsov , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Kajsa Møllersen

In recent years, deep learning has successfully been applied to automate a wide variety of tasks in diagnostic histopathology. However, fast and reliable localization of small-scale regions-of-interest (ROI) has remained a key challenge, as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Jon Braatz , Pranav Rajpurkar , Stephanie Zhang , Andrew Y. Ng , Jeanne Shen

DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that regulates gene expression by adding methyl groups to DNA. Abnormal methylation patterns can disrupt gene expression and have been linked to cancer development. To quantify DNA methylation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Manahil Raza , Muhammad Dawood , Talha Qaiser , Nasir M. Rajpoot

In the clinical setting of histopathology, whole-slide image (WSI) artifacts frequently arise, distorting regions of interest, and having a pernicious impact on WSI analysis. Image-to-image translation networks such as CycleGANs are in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Cameron Dahan , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Joseph Boyd

Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is a powerful method to facilitate the diagnosis of cancer in tissue samples. Automating this diagnosis poses various issues, most notably caused by the immense image resolution and limited annotations. WSIs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Ahmet Gokberk Gul , Oezdemir Cetin , Christoph Reich , Tim Prangemeier , Nadine Flinner , Heinz Koeppl

In digital pathology, Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is usually formulated as a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. Although transformer-based architectures have been used for WSI classification, these methods require modifications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Juan I. Pisula , Katarzyna Bozek

Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is an important prognostic and predictive factor which is overexpressed in 15-20% of breast cancer (BCa). The determination of its status is a key clinical decision making step for selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Wenqi Lu , Michael Toss , Emad Rakha , Nasir Rajpoot , Fayyaz Minhas