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Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are critical for various clinical applications, including histopathological analysis. However, current deep learning approaches in this field predominantly focus on individual tumor types, limiting model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Sharon Peled , Yosef E. Maruvka , Moti Freiman

Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is a powerful method to facilitate the diagnosis of cancer in tissue samples. Automating this diagnosis poses various issues, most notably caused by the immense image resolution and limited annotations. WSIs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Ahmet Gokberk Gul , Oezdemir Cetin , Christoph Reich , Tim Prangemeier , Nadine Flinner , Heinz Koeppl

Recent breakthroughs in object detection and image classification using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing the state of the art in medical imaging, and microscopy in particular presents abundant opportunities for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Rui Aguiar , Jon Braatz

Accurate diagnosis of disease often depends on the exhaustive examination of Whole Slide Images (WSI) at microscopic resolution. Efficient handling of these data-intensive images requires lossy compression techniques. This paper…

Supervised deep learning methods have achieved considerable success in medical image analysis, owing to the availability of large-scale and well-annotated datasets. However, creating such datasets for whole slide images (WSIs) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Hao Wang , Euijoon Ahn , Jinman Kim

In this paper, we propose a novel method for highly efficient follicular segmentation of thyroid cytopathological WSIs. Firstly, we propose a hybrid segmentation architecture, which integrates a classifier into Deeplab V3 by adding a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Siyan Tao , Yao Guo , Chuang Zhu , Huang Chen , Yue Zhang , Jie Yang , Jun Liu

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

Whole slide images (WSIs) are vital in digital pathology, enabling gigapixel tissue analysis across various pathological tasks. While recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) allow multi-task WSI analysis through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xinheng Lyu , Yuci Liang , Wenting Chen , Meidan Ding , Jiaqi Yang , Guolin Huang , Daokun Zhang , Xiangjian He , Linlin Shen

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) methods have become increasingly popular for classifying giga-pixel sized Whole-Slide Images (WSIs) in digital pathology. Most MIL methods operate at a single WSI magnification, by processing all the tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Kevin Thandiackal , Boqi Chen , Pushpak Pati , Guillaume Jaume , Drew F. K. Williamson , Maria Gabrani , Orcun Goksel

Advancements in digital pathology and computing resources have made a significant impact in the field of computational pathology for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, access to high-quality labeled histopathological images of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Masoud Tafavvoghi , Lars Ailo Bongo , Nikita Shvetsov , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Kajsa Møllersen

Computational pathology has made significant progress in recent years, fueling advances in both fundamental disease understanding and clinically ready tools. This evolution is driven by the availability of large amounts of digitized slides…

Cancer subtyping is one of the most challenging tasks in digital pathology, where Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) by processing gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) has been in the spotlight of recent research. However, MIL approaches do…

During the last decade, the digitization of pathology has gained considerable momentum. Digital pathology offers many advantages including more efficient workflows, easier collaboration as well as a powerful venue for telepathology. At the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Abtin Riasatian , Maral Rasoolijaberi , Morteza Babaei , H. R. Tizhoosh

One of the challenges facing the adoption of digital pathology workflows for clinical use is the need for automated quality control. As the scanners sometimes determine focus inaccurately, the resultant image blur deteriorates the scanned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-16 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Yueyang Zhang , Lyndon Chan , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Jasper A. Z. Brawley-Hayes , Savvas Damaskinos

Learning high-quality, self-supervised, visual representations is essential to advance the role of computer vision in biomedical microscopy and clinical medicine. Previous work has focused on self-supervised representation learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Cheng Jiang , Xinhai Hou , Akhil Kondepudi , Asadur Chowdury , Christian W. Freudiger , Daniel A. Orringer , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon

We address the challenging problem of whole slide image (WSI) classification. WSIs have very high resolutions and usually lack localized annotations. WSI classification can be cast as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem when only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Bin Li , Yin Li , Kevin W. Eliceiri

In this paper, we address the challenge of few-shot classification in histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) by utilizing foundational vision-language models (VLMs) and slide-level prompt learning. Given the gigapixel scale of WSIs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Devavrat Tomar , Guillaume Vray , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Sudipta Roy , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Behzad Bozorgtabar

Healthcare applications are inherently multimodal, benefiting greatly from the integration of diverse data sources. However, the modalities available in clinical settings can vary across different locations and patients. A key area that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mohammed Amer , Mohamed A. Suliman , Tu Bui , Nuria Garcia , Serban Georgescu

Analyzing high resolution whole slide images (WSIs) with regard to information across multiple scales poses a significant challenge in digital pathology. Multi-instance learning (MIL) is a common solution for working with high resolution…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have exhibited remarkable success in the field of histopathology image analysis. On the other hand, the contemporary trend of employing large models and extensive datasets has underscored the significance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Cong Cong , Shiyu Xuan , Sidong Liu , Maurice Pagnucco , Shiliang Zhang , Yang Song