English
Related papers

Related papers: Creating an Atlas of Normal Tissue for Pruning WSI…

200 papers

Diagnosing diseases through histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is fundamental in modern pathology but is challenged by the gigapixel scale and complexity of WSIs. Trained histopathologists overcome this challenge by navigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fatemeh Ghezloo , Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Rustin Soraki , Wisdom O. Ikezogwo , Beibin Li , Tejoram Vivekanandan , Joann G. Elmore , Ranjay Krishna , Linda Shapiro

Encoding whole slide images (WSI) as graphs is well motivated since it makes it possible for the gigapixel resolution WSI to be represented in its entirety for the purpose of graph learning. To this end, WSIs can be broken into smaller…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women worldwide. Histopathology image analysis serves as the gold standard for cancer diagnosis. In this regard, whole-slide imaging (WSI), a revolutionary technology in digital pathology,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Baichen Yu , Xuetong Li , Jing Zhou , Hansheng Wang

Computational methods on analyzing Whole Slide Images (WSIs) enable early diagnosis and treatments by supporting pathologists in detection and classification of tumors. However, the extremely high resolution of WSIs makes end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Umar Marikkar , Muhammad Awais , Sara Atito

With the development of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) and image scanning technology, Whole-slide Image (WSI) scanners are widely used in the field of pathological diagnosis. Therefore, WSI analysis has become the key to modern digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chen Li , Xintong Li , Md Rahaman , Xiaoyan Li , Hongzan Sun , Hong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Xiaoqi Li , Jian Wu , Yudong Yao , Marcin Grzegorzek

Whole slide images are the foundation of digital pathology for the diagnosis and treatment of carcinomas. Writing pathology reports is laborious and error-prone for inexperienced pathologists. To reduce the workload and improve clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pingyi Chen , Honglin Li , Chenglu Zhu , Sunyi Zheng , Zhongyi Shui , Lin Yang

The burgeoning discipline of computational pathology shows promise in harnessing whole slide images (WSIs) to quantify morphological heterogeneity and develop objective prognostic modes for human cancers. However, progress is impeded by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chao Tu , Kun Huang , Jie Zhang , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang , Zhenyuan Ning

Digital gigapixel whole slide image (WSI) is widely used in clinical diagnosis, and automated WSI analysis is key for computer-aided diagnosis. Currently, analyzing the integrated descriptor of probabilities or feature maps from massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ziquan Wei , Shenghua Cheng , Junbo Hu , Li Chen , Shaoqun Zeng , Xiuli Liu

Digital whole-slide images of pathological tissue samples have recently become feasible for use within routine diagnostic practice. These gigapixel sized images enable pathologists to perform reviews using computer workstations instead of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Jesper Molin , Anna Bodén , Darren Treanor , Morten Fjeld , Claes Lundström

This work addresses how to efficiently classify challenging histopathology images, such as gigapixel whole-slide images for cancer diagnostics with image-level annotation. We use images with annotated tumor regions to identify a set of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed , Mary-Anne Hartley , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

Nucleus detection in histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. The gigapixel size of WSIs necessitates the use of sliding window methodology for nucleus detection. However, mainstream…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Zhongyi Shui , Honglin Li , Yunlong Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Yiwen Ye , Pingyi Chen , Ruizhe Guo , Lei Cui , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis plays a crucial role in modern digital pathology, enabling large-scale feature extraction from tissue samples. However, traditional feature extraction pipelines based on tools like CellProfiler often involve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Yuechen Yang , Yu Wang , Tianyuan Yao , Ruining Deng , Mengmeng Yin , Shilin Zhao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

The rapid generation of whole-slide images (WSIs) in dermatopathology necessitates automated methods for efficient processing and accurate classification. This study evaluates the performance of two foundation models, UNI and Virchow2, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Riya Gupta , Yiwei Zong , Dennis H. Murphree

Tumor proliferation is an important biomarker indicative of the prognosis of breast cancer patients. Assessment of tumor proliferation in a clinical setting is highly subjective and labor-intensive task. Previous efforts to automate tumor…

We present a novel diffusion-based approach to generate synthetic histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSIs) at an unprecedented gigapixel scale. Synthetic WSIs have many potential applications: They can augment training datasets to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Robert Harb , Thomas Pock , Heimo Müller

Ensuring diagnostic performance of AI models before clinical use is key to the safe and successful adoption of these technologies. Studies reporting AI applied to digital pathology images for diagnostic purposes have rapidly increased in…

Accurate diagnosis of breast cancer in histopathology images is challenging due to the heterogeneity of cancer cell growth as well as of a variety of benign breast tissue proliferative lesions. In this paper, we propose a practical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Xingyu Li , Marko Radulovic , Ksenija Kanjer , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Whole-slide images (WSIs) from cancer patients contain rich information that can be used for medical diagnosis or to follow treatment progress. To automate their analysis, numerous deep learning methods based on convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lucas Sancéré , Noémie Moreau , Katarzyna Bozek

Mitosis count is an important biomarker for prognosis of various cancers. At present, pathologists typically perform manual counting on a few selected regions of interest in breast whole-slide-images (WSIs) of patient biopsies. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Saad Ullah Akram , Talha Qaiser , Simon Graham , Juho Kannala , Janne Heikkilä , Nasir Rajpoot

Image analysis and machine learning algorithms operating on multi-gigapixel whole-slide images (WSIs) often process a large number of tiles (sub-images) and require aggregating predictions from the tiles in order to predict WSI-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mohsin Bilal , Robert Jewsbury , Ruoyu Wang , Hammam M. AlGhamdi , Amina Asif , Mark Eastwood , Nasir Rajpoot