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Whole slide image (WSI) assessment is a challenging and crucial step in cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. WSIs require high magnifications to facilitate sub-cellular analysis. Precise annotations for patch- or even pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Simon Holdenried-Krafft , Peter Somers , Ivonne A. Montes-Majarro , Diana Silimon , Cristina Tarín , Falko Fend , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Digital pathology archives increasingly contain multiple whole-slide images (WSIs) per case, capturing spatially distinct tumour regions and reflecting intrinsic morphological heterogeneity. However, most existing approaches rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zahra Rahimi Afzal , Wataru Uegami , Saghir Alfasly , Saba Yasir , Judy C. Boughey , Matthew P. Goetz , Krishna R. Kalari , H. R. Tizhoosh

Whole slide image (WSI) analysis has emerged as an increasingly essential technique in computational pathology. Recent advances in the pathology foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated significant advantages in deriving meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhidong Yang , Xiuhui Shi , Wei Ba , Zhigang Song , Haijing Luan , Taiyuan Hu , Senlin Lin , Jiguang Wang , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Rui Yan

Whole slide imaging (WSI) has moved digital pathology closer to diagnostic practice in recent years. Due to the inherent tissue topography variability, accurate autofocusing remains a critical challenge for WSI and automated microscopy…

Histopathological image analysis is an essential process for the discovery of diseases such as cancer. However, it is challenging to train CNN on whole slide images (WSIs) of gigapixel resolution considering the available memory capacity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Shusuke Takahama , Yusuke Kurose , Yusuke Mukuta , Hiroyuki Abe , Masashi Fukayama , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Masanobu Kitagawa , Tatsuya Harada

Slide-level classification for whole-slide images (WSIs) has been widely recognized as a crucial problem in digital and computational pathology. Current approaches commonly consider WSIs as a bag of cropped patches and process them via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Doanh C. Bui , Trinh Thi Le Vuong , Jin Tae Kwak

We propose a modular framework for predicting cancer specific survival directly from whole slide pathology images (WSIs). The framework consists of four key stages designed to capture prognostic and morphological heterogeneity. First, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ardhendu Sekhar , Vasu Soni , Keshav Aske , Garima Jain , Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Whole slide images (WSIs) pose fundamental computational challenges due to their gigapixel resolution and the sparse distribution of informative regions. Existing approaches often treat image patches independently or reshape them in ways…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Weiyi Wu , Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Chongyang Gao , Xinwen Xu , Siting Li , Jiang Gui

Weakly supervised whole slide image classification is a key task in computational pathology, which involves predicting a slide-level label from a set of image patches constituting the slide. Constructing models to solve this task involves…

Whole slide images (WSIs) are vital in digital pathology, enabling gigapixel tissue analysis across various pathological tasks. While recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) allow multi-task WSI analysis through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xinheng Lyu , Yuci Liang , Wenting Chen , Meidan Ding , Jiaqi Yang , Guolin Huang , Daokun Zhang , Xiangjian He , Linlin Shen

Processing giga-pixel whole slide histopathology images (WSI) is a computationally expensive task. Multiple instance learning (MIL) has become the conventional approach to process WSIs, in which these images are split into smaller patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ramin Nakhli , Puria Azadi Moghadam , Haoyang Mi , Hossein Farahani , Alexander Baras , Blake Gilks , Ali Bashashati

The application of deep learning to pathology assumes the existence of digital whole slide images of pathology slides. However, slide digitization is bottlenecked by the high cost of precise motor stages in slide scanners that are needed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Viswesh Krishna , Anirudh Joshi , Philip L. Bulterys , Eric Yang , Andrew Y. Ng , Pranav Rajpurkar

Patching gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is an important task in computational pathology. Some methods have been proposed to select a subset of patches as WSI representation for downstream tasks. While most of the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Peyman Nejat , Areej Alsaafin , Ghazal Alabtah , Nneka Comfere , Aaron Mangold , Dennis Murphree , Patricija Zot , Saba Yasir , Joaquin J. Garcia , H. R. Tizhoosh

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

Digital pathology based on whole slide images (WSIs) plays a key role in cancer diagnosis and clinical practice. Due to the high resolution of the WSI and the unavailability of patch-level annotations, WSI classification is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Litao Yang , Deval Mehta , Sidong Liu , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Antonio Di Ieva , Zongyuan Ge

Whole-slide images (WSI) glomerulus segmentation is essential for accurately diagnosing kidney diseases. In this work, we propose a general and practical pipeline for glomerulus segmentation that effectively enhances both patch-level and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Quan Huu Cap

Surgical scene understanding is a key prerequisite for contextaware decision support in the operating room. While deep learning-based approaches have already reached or even surpassed human performance in various fields, the task of…

Deep learning methods have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing histopathological images, but current methods are often specialized for specific domains and software environments, and few open-source options exist for deploying models in…

The recent development of deep learning large models in medicine shows remarkable performance in medical image analysis and diagnosis, but their large number of parameters causes memory and inference latency challenges. Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Shaojie Li , Zhaoshuo Diao

Specific and effective breast cancer therapy relies on the accurate quantification of PD-L1 positivity in tumors, which appears in the form of brown stainings in high resolution whole slide images (WSIs). However, the retrieval and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Giacomo Cignoni , Cristian Scatena , Chiara Frascarelli , Nicola Fusco , Antonio Giuseppe Naccarato , Giuseppe Nicoló Fanelli , Alina Sîrbu