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Computational pathology has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by domain-specific image encoders and growing interest in using vision-language models to answer natural-language questions about diseases. Yet, the core problem behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wentao Huang , Weimin Lyu , Peiliang Lou , Qingqiao Hu , Xiaoling Hu , Shahira Abousamra , Wenchao Han , Ruifeng Guo , Jiawei Zhou , Chao Chen , Chen Wang

Advances in digitizing tissue slides and the fast-paced progress in artificial intelligence, including deep learning, have boosted the field of computational pathology. This field holds tremendous potential to automate clinical diagnosis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Andrew H. Song , Guillaume Jaume , Drew F. K. Williamson , Ming Y. Lu , Anurag Vaidya , Tiffany R. Miller , Faisal Mahmood

Whole slide imaging (WSI) has transformed digital pathology by enabling computational analysis of gigapixel histopathology images. Recent foundation model advances have accelerated progress in computational pathology, facilitating joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Peihang Wu , Zehong Chen , Lijian Xu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have attracted substantial attention in pathology, serving as backbones for applications such as zero-shot image classification and Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis. Additionally, they can function as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuxuan Sun , Yunlong Zhang , Yixuan Si , Chenglu Zhu , Zhongyi Shui , Kai Zhang , Jingxiong Li , Xingheng Lyu , Tao Lin , Lin Yang

In medical image analysis, the expertise scarcity and the high cost of data annotation limits the development of large artificial intelligence models. This paper investigates the potential of transfer learning with pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Tissue phenotyping is a fundamental task in learning objective characterizations of histopathologic biomarkers within the tumor-immune microenvironment in cancer pathology. However, whole-slide imaging (WSI) is a complex computer vision in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Richard J. Chen , Rahul G. Krishnan

Accurate skin disease classification is a critical yet challenging task due to high inter-class similarity, intra-class variability, and complex lesion textures. While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Enam Ahmed Taufik , Abdullah Khondoker , Antara Firoz Parsa , Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa

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…

Self-supervised pretraining attempts to enhance model performance by obtaining effective features from unlabeled data, and has demonstrated its effectiveness in the field of histopathology images. Despite its success, few works concentrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zhiyun Song , Penghui Du , Junpeng Yan , Kailu Li , Jianzhong Shou , Maode Lai , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Few-shot learning presents a critical solution for cancer diagnosis in computational pathology (CPath), addressing fundamental limitations in data availability, particularly the scarcity of expert annotations and patient privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhengrui Guo , Conghao Xiong , Jiabo Ma , Qichen Sun , Lishuang Feng , Jinzhuo Wang , Hao Chen

The development of vision-language models (VLMs) for histo-pathology has shown promising new usages and zero-shot performances. However, current approaches, which decompose large slides into smaller patches, focus solely on inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Maxime Zanella , Fereshteh Shakeri , Yunshi Huang , Houda Bahig , Ismail Ben Ayed

This paper proposes Comprehensive Pathology Language Image Pre-training (CPLIP), a new unsupervised technique designed to enhance the alignment of images and text in histopathology for tasks such as classification and segmentation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun

The foundation models based on pre-training technology have significantly advanced artificial intelligence from theoretical to practical applications. These models have facilitated the feasibility of computer-aided diagnosis for widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Xiaofei Chen , Yuting He , Cheng Xue , Rongjun Ge , Shuo Li , Guanyu Yang

Microscopic interpretation of histopathology images underlies many important diagnostic and treatment decisions. While advances in vision-language modeling raise new opportunities for analysis of such images, the gigapixel-scale size of…

Recent advancements in surgical computer vision applications have been driven by vision-only models, which do not explicitly integrate the rich semantics of language into their design. These methods rely on manually annotated surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Kun Yuan , Vinkle Srivastav , Tong Yu , Joel L. Lavanchy , Jacques Marescaux , Pietro Mascagni , Nassir Navab , Nicolas Padoy

Deep Learning-based computational pathology algorithms have demonstrated profound ability to excel in a wide array of tasks that range from characterization of well known morphological phenotypes to predicting non-human-identifiable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Ming Y. Lu , Dehan Kong , Jana Lipkova , Richard J. Chen , Rajendra Singh , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Faisal Mahmood

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) continue to pose challenges for multimodal understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Fengchun Liu , Songhan Jiang , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

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

Medical vision-and-language pre-training (Med-VLP) has received considerable attention owing to its applicability to extracting generic vision-and-language representations from medical images and texts. Most existing methods mainly contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhihong Chen , Guanbin Li , Xiang Wan

The use of artificial intelligence to enable precision medicine and decision support systems through the analysis of pathology images has the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Such applications will depend on…