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Whole slide imaging is fundamental to biomedical microscopy and computational pathology. Previously, learning representations for gigapixel-sized whole slide images (WSIs) has relied on multiple instance learning with weak labels, which do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xinhai Hou , Cheng Jiang , Akhil Kondepudi , Yiwei Lyu , Asadur Chowdury , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon

We present a novel diffusion-based approach to generate synthetic histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSIs) at an unprecedented gigapixel scale. Synthetic WSIs have many potential applications: They can augment training datasets to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Robert Harb , Thomas Pock , Heimo Müller

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

Patching gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is an important task in computational pathology. Some methods have been proposed to select a subset of patches as WSI representation for downstream tasks. While most of the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Peyman Nejat , Areej Alsaafin , Ghazal Alabtah , Nneka Comfere , Aaron Mangold , Dennis Murphree , Patricija Zot , Saba Yasir , Joaquin J. Garcia , H. R. Tizhoosh

Whole-slide image (WSI) preprocessing, comprising tissue detection followed by patch extraction, is foundational to AI-driven computational pathology but remains a major bottleneck for scaling to large and heterogeneous cohorts. We present…

Poor performance of quantitative analysis in histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSI) has been a significant obstacle in clinical practice. Annotating large-scale WSIs manually is a demanding and time-consuming task, unlikely to yield the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sarah Cechnicka , James Ball , Hadrien Reynaud , Callum Arthurs , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

Computational pathology (CPath) digitizes pathology slides into whole slide images (WSIs), enabling analysis for critical healthcare tasks such as cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, WSIs possess extremely long sequence lengths (up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Wenhao Tang , Heng Fang , Ge Wu , Xiang Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Whole-slide images (WSIs) are fundamental for computational pathology, where accurate lesion segmentation is critical for clinical decision making. Existing methods partition WSIs into discrete patches, disrupting spatial continuity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yunheng Wu , Wenqi Huang , Liangyi Wang , Masahiro Oda , Yuichiro Hayashi , Daniel Rueckert , Kensaku Mori

The histopathological analysis of whole-slide images (WSIs) is fundamental to cancer diagnosis but is a time-consuming and expert-driven process. While deep learning methods show promising results, dominant patch-based methods artificially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Alexander Weers , Alexander H. Berger , Laurin Lux , Peter Schüffler , Daniel Rueckert , Johannes C. Paetzold

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 image (WSI) analysis in digital pathology presents unique challenges due to the gigapixel resolution of WSIs and the scarcity of dense supervision signals. While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a natural fit for slide-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sofiène Boutaj , Marin Scalbert , Pierre Marza , Florent Couzinie-Devy , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis

Digital pathology involves converting physical tissue slides into high-resolution Whole Slide Images (WSIs), which pathologists analyze for disease-affected tissues. However, large histology slides with numerous microscopic fields pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Mobina Mansoori , Sajjad Shahabodini , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Computational pathology and whole-slide image (WSI) analysis are pivotal in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, the ultra-high resolution of WSIs presents significant modeling challenges. Recent advancements in pathology foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Honglin Li , Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Recent advancements in Digital Pathology (DP), particularly through artificial intelligence and Foundation Models, have underscored the importance of large-scale, diverse, and richly annotated datasets. Despite their critical role, publicly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Dmitry Nechaev , Alexey Pchelnikov , Ekaterina Ivanova

Whole slide images~(WSIs) are digitized images of tissues placed in glass slides using advanced scanners. The digital processing of WSIs is challenging as they are gigapixel images and stored in multi-resolution format. A common challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani , Masoud Ganji

Representation learning of pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) has been has primarily relied on weak supervision with Multiple Instance Learning (MIL). However, the slide representations resulting from this approach are highly tailored to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Andrew H. Song , Richard J. Chen , Tong Ding , Drew F. K. Williamson , Guillaume Jaume , Faisal Mahmood

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

Accurate survival prediction from histopathology whole-slide images (WSIs) remains challenging due to their gigapixel resolution, strong spatial heterogeneity, and complex survival distributions. We introduce a comprehensive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ardhendu Sekhar , Vasu Soni , Keshav Aske , Shivam Madnoorkar , Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Processing histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSI) leads to massive storage requirements for clinics worldwide. Even after lossy image compression during image acquisition, additional lossy compression is frequently possible without…

Whole slide images (WSIs) pose fundamental computational challenges due to their gigapixel resolution and the sparse distribution of informative regions. Existing approaches often treat image patches independently or reshape them in ways…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Weiyi Wu , Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Chongyang Gao , Xinwen Xu , Siting Li , Jiang Gui