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Whole slide image (WSI) classification is a crucial problem for cancer diagnostics in clinics and hospitals. A WSI, acquired at gigapixel size, is commonly tiled into patches and processed by multiple-instance learning (MIL) models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Doanh C. Bui , Jin Tae Kwak

In histopathology, tissue samples are often larger than a standard microscope slide, making stitching of multiple fragments necessary to process entire structures such as tumors. Automated stitching is a prerequisite for scaling analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Stefan Brandstätter , Maximilian Köller , Philipp Seeböck , Alissa Blessing , Felicitas Oberndorfer , Svitlana Pochepnia , Helmut Prosch , Georg Langs

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

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a cornerstone approach in computational pathology (CPath) for generating clinically meaningful slide-level embeddings from gigapixel tissue images. However, MIL often struggles with small, weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Daniel Shao , Richard J. Chen , Andrew H. Song , Joel Runevic , Ming Y. Lu , Tong Ding , Faisal Mahmood

Digital pathology offers a groundbreaking opportunity to transform clinical practice in histopathological image analysis, yet faces a significant hurdle: the substantial file sizes of pathological Whole Slide Images (WSI). While current…

Due to the increasing workload of pathologists, the need for automation to support diagnostic tasks and quantitative biomarker evaluation is becoming more and more apparent. Foundation models have the potential to improve generalizability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Till Nicke , Jan Raphael Schaefer , Henning Hoefener , Friedrich Feuerhake , Dorit Merhof , Fabian Kiessling , Johannes Lotz

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

Foundation models in computational pathology promise to unlock the development of new clinical decision support systems and models for precision medicine. However, there is a mismatch between most clinical analysis, which is defined at the…

Pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) are widely used for cancer survival analysis because of their comprehensive histopathological information at both cellular and tissue levels, enabling quantitative, large-scale, and prognostically rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Yucheng Xing , Ling Huang , Jingying Ma , Ruping Hong , Jiangdong Qiu , Pei Liu , Kai He , Huazhu Fu , Mengling Feng

In computational pathology, the gigapixel scale of Whole-Slide Images (WSIs) necessitates their division into thousands of smaller patches. Analyzing these high-dimensional patch embeddings is computationally expensive and risks diluting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Saya Hashemian , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) present a challenging computer vision task due to their gigapixel size and presence of numerous artefacts. Yet they are a valuable resource for patient diagnosis and stratification, often representing the gold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Amaya Gallagher-Syed , Luca Rossi , Felice Rivellese , Costantino Pitzalis , Myles Lewis , Michael Barnes , Gregory Slabaugh

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

Acquiring annotations for whole slide images (WSIs)-based deep learning tasks, such as creating tissue segmentation masks or detecting mitotic figures, is a laborious process due to the extensive image size and the significant manual work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jingna Qiu , Marc Aubreville , Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Jonas Utz , Maja Schlereth , Katharina Breininger

Whole slide image (WSI) processing is becoming part of the key components of standard clinical diagnosis for various diseases. However, the direct application of conventional image processing algorithms to WSI faces certain obstacles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yuanfeng Wu , Shaojie Li , Zhiqiang Du , Wentao Zhu

This paper presents a novel method for unsupervised segmentation of pathology images. Staging of lung cancer is a major factor of prognosis. Measuring the maximum dimensions of the invasive component in a pathology images is an essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Takayasu Moriya , Holger R. Roth , Shota Nakamura , Hirohisa Oda , Kai Nagara , Masahiro Oda , Kensaku Mori

Whole slide images (WSIs) are high-resolution, gigapixel sized images that pose significant computational challenges for traditional machine learning models due to their size and heterogeneity.In this paper, we present a scalable and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ravi Kant Gupta , Shounak Das , Ardhendu Sekhar , Amit Sethi

Current approaches for classification of whole slide images (WSI) in digital pathology predominantly utilize a two-stage learning pipeline. The first stage identifies areas of interest (e.g. tumor tissue), while the second stage processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Marvin Teichmann , Andre Aichert , Hanibal Bohnenberger , Philipp Ströbel , Tobias Heimann

Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification has very significant applications in clinical pathology, e.g., tumor identification and cancer diagnosis. Currently, most research attention is focused on Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) using static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jiaxiang Gou , Luping Ji , Pei Liu , Mao Ye

Histomorphology is crucial in cancer diagnosis. However, existing whole slide image (WSI) classification methods struggle to effectively incorporate histomorphology information, limiting their ability to capture key pathological features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Baizhi Wang , Rui Yan , Wenxin Ma , Xu Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Xiaolong Li , Yunjie Gu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

We consider machine-learning-based thyroid-malignancy prediction from cytopathology whole-slide images (WSI). Multiple instance learning (MIL) approaches, typically used for the analysis of WSIs, divide the image (bag) into patches…