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Manual count of mitotic figures, which is determined in the tumor region with the highest mitotic activity, is a key parameter of most tumor grading schemes. It can be, however, strongly dependent on the area selection due to uneven mitotic…

Domain variability is a common bottle neck in developing generalisable algorithms for various medical applications. Motivated by the observation that the domain variability of the medical images is to some extent compact, we propose to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Mustaffa Hussain , Ritesh Gangnani , Sasidhar Kadiyala

Mitotic counts are one of the key indicators of breast cancer prognosis. However, accurate mitotic cell counting is still a difficult problem and is labourious. Automated methods have been proposed for this task, but are usually dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Salar Razavi , Fariba Dambandkhameneh , Dimitri Androutsos , Susan Done , April Khademi

Accurate mitotic figure classification is crucial in computational pathology, as mitotic activity informs cancer grading and patient prognosis. Distinguishing atypical mitotic figures (AMFs), which indicate higher tumor aggressiveness, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hana Feki , Alice Blondel , Thomas Walter

Atypical mitotic figures are important biomarkers of tumor aggressiveness in histopathology, yet reliable recognition remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and variability across imaging domains. We present a DenseNet-121-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adinath Dukre , Ankan Deria , Yutong Xie , Imran Razzak

Counting mitotic figures is time-intensive for pathologists and leads to inter-observer variability. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises a solution by automatically detecting mitotic figures while maintaining decision consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Seungho Choe , Xiaoli Qin , Abubakr Shafique , Amanda Dy , Susan Done , Dimitrios Androutsos , April Khademi

Mitotic figure detection remains a challenging task in computational pathology due to domain variability and morphological complexity. This paper describes our participation in the MIDOG 2025 challenge, focusing on robust mitotic figure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Euiseop Song , Jaeyoung Park , Jaewoo Park

We propose a virtual staining methodology based on Generative Adversarial Networks to map histopathology images of breast cancer tissue from H&E stain to PHH3 and vice versa. We use the resulting synthetic images to build Convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Caner Mercan , Germonda Reijnen-Mooij , David Tellez Martin , Johannes Lotz , Nick Weiss , Marcel van Gerven , Francesco Ciompi

Identification and counting of cells and mitotic figures is a standard task in diagnostic histopathology. Due to the large overall cell count on histological slides and the potential sparse prevalence of some relevant cell types or mitotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Marc Aubreville , Maximilian Krappmann , Christof Bertram , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

Mitotic activity is an important feature for grading several cancer types. Counting mitotic figures (MFs) is a time-consuming, laborious task prone to inter-observer variation. Inaccurate recognition of MFs can lead to incorrect grading and…

Mitotic figure detection is a challenging task in digital pathology that has a direct impact on therapeutic decisions. While automated methods often achieve acceptable results under laboratory conditions, they frequently fail in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Jakob Dexl , Michaela Benz , Volker Bruns , Petr Kuritcyn , Thomas Wittenberg

Deep learning has driven significant advances in mitotic figure analysis within computational pathology. In this paper, we present our approach to the Mitosis Domain Generalization (MIDOG) 2025 Challenge, which consists of two distinct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Shuting Xu , Runtong Liu , Zhixuan Chen , Junlin Hou , Hao Chen

Recent advances in machine learning are transforming medical image analysis, particularly in cancer detection and classification. Techniques such as deep learning, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Arezoo Borji , Gernot Kronreif , Bernhard Angermayr , Sepideh Hatamikia

For diagnosing melanoma, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue slides remains the gold standard. These images contain quantitative information in different magnifications. In the present study, we investigated whether deep…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-15 Peizhen Xie , Ke Zuo , Yu Zhang , Fangfang Li , Mingzhu Yin , Kai Lu

This is the submission for mitosis detection in the context of the MIDOG 2021 challenge. It is based on the two-stage objection model Faster RCNN as well as DenseNet as a backbone for the neural network architecture. It achieves a F1-score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Michel Halmes , Hippolyte Heuberger , Sylvain Berlemont

We tackle atypical versus normal mitosis classification in the MIDOG 2025 challenge using EfficientViT-L2, a hybrid CNN--ViT architecture optimized for accuracy and efficiency. A unified dataset of 13,938 nuclei from seven cancer types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Xuan Qi , Dominic Labella , Thomas Sanford , Maxwell Lee

Assessing the Mitotic Count has a known high degree of intra- and inter-rater variability. Computer-aided systems have proven to decrease this variability and reduce labeling time. These systems, however, are generally highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Frauke Wilm , Christian Marzahl , Katharina Breininger , Marc Aubreville

Automated detection and classification of mitotic figures especially distinguishing atypical from normal remain critical challenges in computational pathology. We present MitoDetect++, a unified deep learning pipeline designed for the MIDOG…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Esha Sadia Nasir , Jiaqi Lv , Mostafa Jahanifar , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Mitotic count (MC) is an important histological parameter for cancer diagnosis and grading, but the manual process for obtaining MC from whole-slide histopathological images is very time-consuming and prone to error. Therefore, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chawan Piansaddhayanon , Sakun Santisukwongchote , Shanop Shuangshoti , Qingyi Tao , Sira Sriswasdi , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

This report details our submission to the Mitotic Domain Generalization (MIDOG) 2025 challenge, which addresses the critical task of mitotic figure detection in histopathology for cancer prognostication. Following the "Bitter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Zhuoyan Shen , Esther Bär , Maria Hawkins , Konstantin Bräutigam , Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete