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Virtual stain transfer is a promising area of research in Computational Pathology, which has a great potential to alleviate important limitations when applying deeplearningbased solutions such as lack of annotations and sensitivity to a…

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In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in pathology applications, potentially even outperforming expert pathologists due to their ability to learn subtle features from large datasets. One…

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Unsupervised and unpaired domain translation using generative adversarial neural networks, and more precisely CycleGAN, is state of the art for the stain translation of histopathology images. It often, however, suffers from the presence of…

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Generalization is one of the main challenges of computational pathology. Slide preparation heterogeneity and the diversity of scanners lead to poor model performance when used on data from medical centers not seen during training. In order…

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The diagnosis of cancer is mainly performed by visual analysis of the pathologists, through examining the morphology of the tissue slices and the spatial arrangement of the cells. If the microscopic image of a specimen is not stained, it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Pegah Salehi , Abdolah Chalechale

Deep learning advances have revolutionized automated digital pathology analysis. However, differences in staining protocols and imaging conditions can introduce significant color variability. In deep learning, such color inconsistency often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Tianyue Xu , Yanlin Wu , Abhai K. Tripathi , Matthew M. Ippolito , Benjamin D. Haeffele

Deep learning models that are trained on histopathological images obtained from a single lab and/or scanner give poor inference performance on images obtained from another scanner/lab with a different staining protocol. In recent years,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Harshal Nishar , Nikhil Chavanke , Nitin Singhal

Accurate histopathological diagnosis often requires multiple differently stained tissue sections, a process that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and environmentally taxing due to the use of multiple chemical stains. Recently, virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiabo MA , Wenqiang Li , Jinbang Li , Ziyi Liu , Linshan Wu , Fengtao Zhou , Li Liang , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Terence T. W. Wong , Hao Chen

Stain normalization often refers to transferring the color distribution of the source image to that of the target image and has been widely used in biomedical image analysis. The conventional stain normalization is regarded as constructing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Hongtao Kang , Die Luo , Weihua Feng , Junbo Hu , Shaoqun Zeng , Tingwei Quan , Xiuli Liu

Digital pathology has made significant advances in tumor diagnosis and segmentation, but image variability due to differences in organs, tissue preparation, and acquisition - known as domain shift - limits the effectiveness of current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Ho Heon Kim , Won Chan Jeong , Young Shin Ko , Young Jin Park

Staining is essential in cell imaging and medical diagnostics but poses significant challenges, including high cost, time consumption, labor intensity, and irreversible tissue alterations. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ziwang Xu , Lanqing Guo , Satoshi Tsutsui , Shuyan Zhang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

"Is it possible to predict expression levels of different genes at a given spatial location in the routine histology image of a tumor section by modeling its stain absorption characteristics?" In this work, we propose a "stain-aware"…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Muhammad Dawood , Kim Branson , Nasir M. Rajpoot , Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas

Virtual stain transfer leverages computer-assisted technology to transform the histochemical staining patterns of tissue samples into other staining types. However, existing methods often lose detailed pathological information due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haiyan Wei , Hangrui Xu , Bingxu Zhu , Yulian Geng , Aolei Liu , Wenfei Yin , Jian Liu

We propose a novel hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain normalization method based on a modified U-Net neural network architecture. Unlike previous deep-learning methods that were often based on generative adversarial networks (GANs), we take…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Chi-Chen Lee , Po-Tsun Paul Kuo , Chi-Han Peng

Blood cell identification is critical for hematological analysis as it aids physicians in diagnosing various blood-related diseases. In real-world scenarios, blood cell image datasets often present the issues of domain shift and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yongcheng Li , Lingcong Cai , Ying Lu , Xianghua Fu , Xiao Han , Ma Li , Wenxing Lai , Xiangzhong Zhang , Xiaomao Fan

Due to recent advances in technology, digitized histopathology images are now widely available for both clinical and research purposes. Accordingly, research into computerized image analysis algorithms for digital histopathology images has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Alison K. Cheeseman , Hamid R. Tizhoosh , Edward R. Vrscay

Chemical staining methods are dependable but require extensive time, expensive chemicals, and raise environmental concerns. These challenges highlight the need for alternative solutions like virtual staining, which accelerates the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Mehdi Ounissi , Ilias Sarbout , Jean-Pierre Hugot , Christine Martinez-Vinson , Dominique Berrebi , Daniel Racoceanu

With the advent of digital pathology and microscopic systems that can scan and save whole slide histological images automatically, there is a growing trend to use computerized methods to analyze acquired images. Among different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Amirreza Mahbod , Georg Dorffner , Isabella Ellinger , Ramona Woitek , Sepideh Hatamikia

In practice, digital pathology images are often affected by various factors, resulting in very large differences in color and brightness. Stain normalization can effectively reduce the differences in color and brightness of digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Hongtao Kang , Die Luo , Li Chen , Junbo Hu , Tingwei Quan , Shaoqun Zeng , Shenghua Cheng , Xiuli Liu

Performance of data-driven network for tumor classification varies with stain-style of histopathological images. This article proposes the stain-style transfer (SST) model based on conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Hyungjoo Cho , Sungbin Lim , Gunho Choi , Hyunseok Min