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Computational pathology foundation models (CPathFMs) have emerged as a powerful approach for analyzing histopathological data, leveraging self-supervised learning to extract robust feature representations from unlabeled whole-slide images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Dong Li , Guihong Wan , Xintao Wu , Xinyu Wu , Ajit J. Nirmal , Christine G. Lian , Peter K. Sorger , Yevgeniy R. Semenov , Chen Zhao

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are rare abnormal cell divisions associated with tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis. Their detection remains a significant challenge due to subtle morphological cues, class imbalance, and inter-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Lavish Ramchandani , Gunjan Deotale , Dev Kumar Das

Artificial intelligence may assist healthcare systems in meeting increasing demand for pathology services while maintaining diagnostic quality and reducing turnaround time and costs. We aimed to investigate the performance of an…

Progress in a research field can be hard to assess, in particular when many concurrent methods are proposed in a short period of time. This is the case in digital pathology, where many foundation models have been released recently to serve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Pierre Marza , Leo Fillioux , Sofiène Boutaj , Kunal Mahatha , Christian Desrosiers , Pablo Piantanida , Jose Dolz , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale histopathology data have found great success in various fields of computational pathology, but their impact on regressive biomarker prediction remains underexplored. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Alexander Blezinger , Wolfgang Nejdl , Ming Tang

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have recently emerged as powerful pretrained encoders for computational pathology, enabling transfer learning across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, systematic comparisons of these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Constance Boissin , Johan Vallon-Christersson , David A. Clifton , Mattias Rantalainen

Vision-language foundation models have shown great promise in computational pathology but remain primarily data-driven, lacking explicit integration of medical knowledge. We introduce KEEP (KnowledgE-Enhanced Pathology), a foundation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Xiao Zhou , Luoyi Sun , Dexuan He , Wenbin Guan , Ge Wang , Ruifen Wang , Lifeng Wang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Sun , Ya Zhang , Kun Sun , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Histopathology is essential for disease diagnosis and treatment decision-making. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled the development of pathology foundation models that learn rich visual representations from…

Advances in foundation modeling have reshaped computational pathology. However, the increasing number of available models and lack of standardized benchmarks make it increasingly complex to assess their strengths, limitations, and potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Andrew Zhang , Guillaume Jaume , Anurag Vaidya , Tong Ding , Faisal Mahmood

Artificial intelligence foundation models are increasingly deployed for prostate cancer Gleason grading, where GP3/GP4 distinction directly impacts treatment decisions. However, these models may achieve high validation accuracy by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Joshua L. Ebbert , Dennis Della Corte

Vision foundation models trained on discretely sampled images achieve strong performance on classification benchmarks, yet whether their representations encode the continuous processes underlying their training data remains unclear. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pritika Vig , Ren-Chin Wu , William Lotter

Despite their successes in vision and language, foundation models have stumbled in pathology, revealing low accuracy, instability, and heavy computational demands. These shortcomings stem not from tuning problems but from deeper conceptual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hamid R. Tizhoosh

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), in particular self-supervised learning of foundation models (FMs), are revolutionizing medical imaging and computational pathology (CPath). A constant challenge in the analysis of digital…

Foundation models, trained on vast amounts of data using self-supervised techniques, have emerged as a promising frontier for advancing artificial intelligence (AI) applications in medicine. This study evaluates three different…

From self-supervised, vision-only models to contrastive visual-language frameworks, computational pathology has rapidly evolved in recent years. Generative AI "co-pilots" now demonstrate the ability to mine subtle, sub-visual tissue cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Mohsin Bilal , Aadam , Manahil Raza , Youssef Altherwy , Anas Alsuhaibani , Abdulrahman Abduljabbar , Fahdah Almarshad , Paul Golding , Nasir Rajpoot

This study evaluates the generalisation capabilities of state-of-the-art histopathology foundation models on out-of-distribution multi-stain autoimmune Immunohistochemistry datasets. We compare 13 feature extractor models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Amaya Gallagher-Syed , Elena Pontarini , Myles J. Lewis , Michael R. Barnes , Gregory Slabaugh

Foundation models leveraging vision-language pretraining have shown promise in chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation, yet their real-world performance across diverse populations and diagnostic tasks remains insufficiently evaluated. This study…

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale datasets are revolutionizing the field of computational pathology (CPath). The generalization ability of foundation models is crucial for the success in various downstream clinical tasks. However,…

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

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have enabled robust generalization in computational pathology through large-scale datasets and expansive architectures, but their substantial computational cost, particularly for gigapixel whole slide…