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Computational analysis of whole slide images (WSIs) has seen significant research progress in recent years, with applications ranging across important diagnostic and prognostic tasks such as survival or cancer subtype prediction. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zak Buzzard , Konstantin Hemker , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

Weakly supervised whole slide image (WSI) classification is challenging due to the lack of patch-level labels and high computational costs. State-of-the-art methods use self-supervised patch-wise feature representations for multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wentao Huang , Xiaoling Hu , Shahira Abousamra , Prateek Prasanna , Chao Chen

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has been widely applied in histopathology to classify Whole Slide Images (WSIs) with slide-level diagnoses. While the ground truth is established by expert pathologists, the slides can be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Marie Arrivat , Rémy Peyret , Elsa Angelini , Pietro Gori

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

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

Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification is often formulated as a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in WSI classification. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hao Li , Ying Chen , Yifei Chen , Wenxian Yang , Bowen Ding , Yuchen Han , Liansheng Wang , Rongshan Yu

Whole-slide images (WSI) in computational pathology have high resolution with gigapixel size, but are generally with sparse regions of interest, which leads to weak diagnostic relevance and data inefficiency for each area in the slide. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Boxuan Zhao , Jun Zhang , Deheng Ye , Jian Cao , Xiao Han , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang

Automatic medical image segmentation has wide applications for disease diagnosing. However, it is much more challenging than natural optical image segmentation due to the high-resolution of medical images and the corresponding huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ziqiang Li , Rentuo Tao , Qianrun Wu , Bin Li

Pathology images are considered the ``gold standard" for cancer diagnosis and treatment, with gigapixel images providing extensive tissue and cellular information. Existing methods fail to simultaneously extract global structural and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Haoming Luo , Xiaotian Yu , Shengxuming Zhang , Jiabin Xia , Yang Jian , Yuning Sun , Liang Xue , Mingli Song , Jing Zhang , Xiuming Zhang , Zunlei Feng

Representation learning for Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is pivotal in developing image-based systems to achieve higher precision in diagnostic pathology. We propose a two-stage framework for WSI representation learning. We sample relevant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Mohammed Adnan , Shivam Kalra , Hamid R. Tizhoosh

In recent years, the availability of digitized Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has enabled the use of deep learning-based computer vision techniques for automated disease diagnosis. However, WSIs present unique computational and algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Yash Sharma , Aman Shrivastava , Lubaina Ehsan , Christopher A. Moskaluk , Sana Syed , Donald E. Brown

We propose a new method for cancer subtype classification from histopathological images, which can automatically detect tumor-specific features in a given whole slide image (WSI). The cancer subtype should be classified by referring to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Noriaki Hashimoto , Daisuke Fukushima , Ryoichi Koga , Yusuke Takagi , Kaho Ko , Kei Kohno , Masato Nakaguro , Shigeo Nakamura , Hidekata Hontani , Ichiro Takeuchi

Recently, various deep learning methods have shown significant successes in medical image analysis, especially in the detection of cancer metastases in hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained whole-slide images (WSIs). However, in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Yinsheng He , Xingyu Li

We present a novel weakly-supervised framework for classifying whole slide images (WSIs). WSIs, due to their gigapixel resolution, are commonly processed by patch-wise classification with patch-level labels. However, patch-level labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Tiange Xiang , Yang Song , Chaoyi Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Mei Chen , Fan Zhang , Heng Huang , Lauren O'Donnell , Weidong Cai

Whole slide imaging is routinely adopted for carcinoma diagnosis and prognosis. Abundant experience is required for pathologists to achieve accurate and reliable diagnostic results of whole slide images (WSI). The huge size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Pingyi Chen , Chenglu Zhu , Sunyi Zheng , Honglin Li , Lin Yang

The class distribution of data is one of the factors that regulates the performance of machine learning models. However, investigations on the impact of different distributions available in the literature are very few, sometimes absent for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ismat Ara Reshma , Sylvain Cussat-Blanc , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Hervé Luga , Josiane Mothe

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

The difficulty of processing gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) in clinical microscopy has been a long-standing barrier to implementing computer aided diagnostic systems. Since modern computing resources are unable to perform computations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sam Maksoud , Kun Zhao , Peter Hobson , Anthony Jennings , Brian Lovell

We developed a software pipeline for quality control (QC) of histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) that segments various regions, such as blurs of different levels, tissue regions, tissue folds, and pen marks. Given the necessity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Abhijeet Patil , Garima Jain , Harsh Diwakar , Jay Sawant , Tripti Bameta , Swapnil Rane , Amit Sethi

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