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Graph-based methods have been extensively applied to whole-slide histopathology image (WSI) analysis due to the advantage of modeling the spatial relationships among different entities. However, most of the existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsai Hor Chan , Fernando Julio Cendra , Lan Ma , Guosheng Yin , Lequan Yu

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

Advancement in digital pathology and artificial intelligence has enabled deep learning-based computer vision techniques for automated disease diagnosis and prognosis. However, WSIs present unique computational and algorithmic challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yash Sharma , Lubaina Ehsan , Sana Syed , Donald E. Brown

Current cervical cytopathology whole slide image (WSI) screening primarily relies on detection-based approaches, which are limited in performance due to the expense and time-consuming annotation process. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jialong Huang , Gaojie Li , Shichao Kan , Jianfeng Liu , Yixiong Liang

In digital pathology, the multiple instance learning (MIL) strategy is widely used in the weakly supervised histopathology whole slide image (WSI) classification task where giga-pixel WSIs are only labeled at the slide level. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Zhan Shi , Jingwei Zhang , Jun Kong , Fusheng Wang

Curating, processing, and combining large-scale medical imaging datasets from national studies is a non-trivial task due to the intense computation and data throughput required, variability of acquired data, and associated financial…

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) holds significant potential for transforming the field of computational pathology. However, there is currently a shortage of pixel-wise annotated HSI data necessary for training deep learning (DL) models.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Ivica Kopriva , Dario Sitnik , Laura-Isabelle Dion-Bertrand , Marija Milković Periša , Mirko Hadžija , Marijana Popović Hadžija

The emergence of foundation models in computational pathology has transformed histopathological image analysis, with whole slide imaging (WSI) diagnosis being a core application. Traditionally, weakly supervised fine-tuning via multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiawen Li , Jiali Hu , Qiehe Sun , Renao Yan , Minxi Ouyang , Tian Guan , Anjia Han , Chao He , Yonghong He

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

Objective: We develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system using deep learning approaches for lesion detection and classification on whole-slide images (WSIs) with breast cancer. The deep features being distinguishing in classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Wei-Wen Hsu , Yongfang Wu , Chang Hao , Yu-Ling Hou , Xiang Gao , Yun Shao , Xueli Zhang , Tao He , Yanhong Tai

Due to the large size and lack of fine-grained annotation, Whole Slide Images (WSIs) analysis is commonly approached as a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. However, previous studies only learn from training data, posing a stark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Weiqin Zhao , Ziyu Guo , Yinshuang Fan , Yuming Jiang , Maximus Yeung , Lequan Yu

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

Whole slide images (WSIs) pose unique challenges when training deep learning models. They are very large which makes it necessary to break each image down into smaller patches for analysis, image features have to be extracted at multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Sharon Nofech-Mozes , Shawna Noy , Fang-I Lu , Anne L. Martel

The condition of the Glomeruli, or filter sacks, in renal Direct Immunofluorescence (DIF) specimens is a critical indicator for diagnosing kidney diseases. A digital pathology system which digitizes a glass histology slide into a Whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Arnold Wiliem , Teng Zhang , Peter Hobson , Anthony Jennings , Brian C. Lovell

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has great potential to improve health outcomes by training systems on vast digitized clinical datasets. Computational Pathology, with its massive amounts of microscopy image data and impact on diagnostics and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Gabriele Campanella , Eugene Fluder , Jennifer Zeng , Chad Vanderbilt , Thomas J. Fuchs

Pretraining on large-scale, in-domain datasets grants histopathology foundation models (FM) the ability to learn task-agnostic data representations, enhancing transfer learning on downstream tasks. In computational pathology, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

Classification of gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is an important prediction task in the emerging area of computational pathology. There has been a surge of research in deep learning models for WSI classification with clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Talha Qaiser , Naoufel Werghi , Nasir Rajpoot

The search and retrieval of digital histopathology slides is an important task that has yet to be solved. In this case study, we investigate the clinical readiness of three state-of-the-art histopathology slide search engines, Yottixel,…

Histopathology can help clinicians make accurate diagnoses, determine disease prognosis, and plan appropriate treatment strategies. As deep learning techniques prove successful in the medical domain, the primary challenges become limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhe Li , Bernhard Kainz