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Whole-slide image (WSI) analysis remains challenging due to the gigapixel scale and sparsely distributed diagnostic regions. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) mitigates this by modeling the WSI as bags of patches for slide-level prediction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yujian Liu , Yuechuan Lin , Dongxu Shen , Haoran Li , Yutong Wang , Xiaoli Liu , Shidang Xu

Pathological image analysis is a crucial field in computer-aided diagnosis, where deep learning is widely applied. Transfer learning using pre-trained models initialized on natural images has effectively improved the downstream pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Nan Ying , Yanli Lei , Tianyi Zhang , Shangqing Lyu , Chunhui Li , Sicheng Chen , Zeyu Liu , Yu Zhao , Guanglei Zhang

Automatic outlining of different tissue types in digitized histological specimen provides a basis for follow-up analyses and can potentially guide subsequent medical decisions. The immense size of whole-slide-images (WSI), however, poses a…

The integration of AI in digital pathology, particularly in whole slide image (WSI) and spatial transcriptomics (ST) analysis, holds immense potential for enhancing our understanding of diseases. Despite challenges such as training pattern…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-18 Chao-Hui Huang , Sara Lichtarge , Diane Fernandez

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have ushered in a new era in computer vision, showcasing unparalleled performance in many challenging tasks. However, their practical deployment in computational pathology has largely been constrained by the sheer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Clément Grisi , Geert Litjens , Jeroen van der Laak

Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology. Yet, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often acquired at gigapixel sizes, rendering them computationally infeasible to analyze entirely at high resolution. Diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Tarun G , Naman Malpani , Gugan Thoppe , Sridharan Devarajan

Whole slide image (WSI) classification is a critical task in computational pathology. However, the gigapixel-size of such images remains a major challenge for the current state of deep-learning. Current methods rely on multiple-instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Etienne Pochet , Rami Maroun , Roger Trullo

Recent advancements in computational pathology have produced patch-level Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), but these models are limited by their inability to analyze whole slide images (WSIs) comprehensively and their tendency to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuci Liang , Xinheng Lyu , Wenting Chen , Meidan Ding , Jipeng Zhang , Xiangjian He , Song Wu , Xiaohan Xing , Sen Yang , Xiyue Wang , Linlin Shen

Whole-slide images (WSIs) contain tissue information distributed across multiple magnification levels, yet most self-supervised methods treat these scales as independent views. This separation prevents models from learning representations…

Whole slide images (WSIs) are massive digital pathology files illustrating intricate tissue structures. Selecting a small, representative subset of patches from each WSI is essential yet challenging. Therefore, following the "Divide &…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Abubakr Shafique , Saghir Alfasly , Areej Alsaafin , Peyman Nejat , Jibran A. Khan , H. R. Tizhoosh

In computation pathology, the pyramid structure of gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has recently been studied for capturing various information from individual cell interactions to tissue microenvironments. This hierarchical structure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ziyu Guo , Weiqin Zhao , Shujun Wang , Lequan Yu

Self-supervised representation learning has been highly promising for histopathology image analysis with numerous approaches leveraging their patient-slide-patch hierarchy to learn better representations. In this paper, we explore how the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hasindri Watawana , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Tariq Mahmood , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Whole slide pathology image classification presents challenges due to gigapixel image sizes and limited annotation labels, hindering model generalization. This paper introduces a prompt learning method to adapt large vision-language models…

The fine-grained annotations in whole slide images (WSIs) show the boundaries of various pathological regions. However, generating such detailed annotation is often costly, whereas the coarse annotations are relatively simpler to produce.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bingjian Yao , Weiping Lin , Yan He , Zheng Wang , Liangsheng Wang

Digitized histopathology glass slides, known as Whole Slide Images (WSIs), are often several gigapixels large and contain sensitive metadata information, which makes distributed processing unfeasible. Moreover, artifacts in WSIs may result…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yuandou Wang , Neel Kanwal , Kjersti Engan , Chunming Rong , Zhiming Zhao

Tumor segmentation stands as a pivotal task in cancer diagnosis. Given the immense dimensions of whole slide images (WSI) in histology, deep learning approaches for WSI classification mainly operate at patch-wise or superpixel-wise level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Huaqian Wu , Clara Brémond-Martin , Kévin Bouaou , Cédric Clouchoux

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

Multi-modal learning adeptly integrates visual and textual data, but its application to histopathology image and text analysis remains challenging, particularly with large, high-resolution images like gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Quan Liu , Ruining Deng , Can Cui , Tianyuan Yao , Vishwesh Nath , Yucheng Tang , Yuankai Huo

Deep learning for histopathology has been successfully used for disease classification, image segmentation and more. However, combining image and text modalities using current state-of-the-art methods has been a challenge due to the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Saurav Sengupta , Donald E. Brown

Traditional image-based survival prediction models rely on discriminative patch labeling which make those methods not scalable to extend to large datasets. Recent studies have shown Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) framework is useful for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Jiawen Yao , Xinliang Zhu , Jitendra Jonnagaddala , Nicholas Hawkins , Junzhou Huang