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Delineation of cancerous regions in gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is a crucial diagnostic procedure in digital pathology. This process is time-consuming because of the large search space in the gigapixel WSIs, causing chances of…

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Recently there have been many algorithms proposed for the classification of very high resolution whole slide images (WSIs). These new algorithms are mostly focused on finding novel ways to combine the information from small local patches…

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Computational pathology and whole-slide image (WSI) analysis are pivotal in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, the ultra-high resolution of WSIs presents significant modeling challenges. Recent advancements in pathology foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Honglin Li , Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

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

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

With the emergence of digital pathology, searching for similar images in large archives has gained considerable attention. Image retrieval can provide pathologists with unprecedented access to the evidence embodied in already diagnosed and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 S. Kalra , C. Choi , S. Shah , L. Pantanowitz , H. R. Tizhoosh

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…

Learning good representation of giga-pixel level whole slide pathology images (WSI) for downstream tasks is critical. Previous studies employ multiple instance learning (MIL) to represent WSIs as bags of sampled patches because, for most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Chunyuan Li , Xinliang Zhu , Jiawen Yao , Junzhou Huang

Tissue segmentation is a routine preprocessing step to reduce the computational cost of whole slide image (WSI) analysis by excluding background regions. Traditional image processing techniques are commonly used for tissue segmentation, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Ruben T. Lucassen , Willeke A. M. Blokx , Mitko Veta

In computational pathology, the gigapixel scale of Whole-Slide Images (WSIs) necessitates their division into thousands of smaller patches. Analyzing these high-dimensional patch embeddings is computationally expensive and risks diluting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Saya Hashemian , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Researchers working on computational analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) in histopathology have primarily resorted to patch-based modelling due to large resolution of each WSI. The large resolution makes WSIs infeasible to be fed directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Suvidha Tripathi , Satish Kumar Singh , Hwee Kuan Lee

Computational pathology methods have the potential to improve access to precision medicine, as well as the reproducibility and accuracy of pathological diagnoses. Particularly the analysis of whole-slide-images (WSIs) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Philippe Weitz , Viktoria Sartor , Balazs Acs , Stephanie Robertson , Daniel Budelmann , Johan Hartman , Mattias Rantalainen

Whole slide images (WSI) are microscopy images of stained tissue slides routinely prepared for diagnosis and treatment selection in medical practice. WSI are very large (gigapixel size) and complex (made of up to millions of cells). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Tristan Lazard , Marvin Lerousseau , Etienne Decencière , Thomas Walter

Traditional whole slide image (WSI) analysis methods typically rely on the multiple instance learning (MIL) paradigm, which extracts patch-level features at high magnification and aggregates them for slide-level prediction. However, such…

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Searching for similar images in archives of histology and histopathology images is a crucial task that may aid in patient matching for various purposes, ranging from triaging and diagnosis to prognosis and prediction. Whole slide images…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks. However, to recognize cancer subtypes automatically, training a CNN on gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Tissue Images (WSI) is currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Le Hou , Dimitris Samaras , Tahsin M. Kurc , Yi Gao , James E. Davis , Joel H. Saltz

In pathology, whole-slide images (WSI) based survival prediction has attracted increasing interest. However, given the large size of WSIs and the lack of pathologist annotations, extracting the prognostic information from WSIs remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Shuai Jiang , Arief A. Suriawinata , Saeed Hassanpour

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) registration is an essential task for analysing the tumour microenvironment (TME) in histopathology. It involves the alignment of spatial information between WSIs of the same section or serial sections of a tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Behnaz Elhaminia , Abdullah Alsalemi , Esha Nasir , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ruqayya Awan , Lawrence S. Young , Nasir M. Rajpoot , Fayyaz Minhas , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Advancement in digital pathology and artificial intelligence has enabled deep learning-based computer vision techniques for automated disease diagnosis and prognosis. However, WSIs present unique computational and algorithmic challenges.…

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