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Supervised deep learning models often achieve excellent performance within their training distribution but struggle to generalize beyond it. In cancer histopathology, for example, a convolutional neural network (CNN) may classify cancer…

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Whole Slide Images (WSIs) in digital pathology are used to diagnose cancer subtypes. The difference in procedures to acquire WSIs at various trial sites gives rise to variability in the histopathology images, thus making consistent…

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Automatic segmentation of skin lesion is considered a crucial step in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for melanoma diagnosis. Despite its significance, skin lesion segmentation remains a challenging task due to their diverse color, texture,…

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Segmentation of skin lesions is considered as an important step in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) for automated melanoma diagnosis. In recent years, segmentation methods based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great…

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Since the introduction of digital and computational pathology as a field, one of the major problems in the clinical application of algorithms has been the struggle to generalize well to examples outside the distribution of the training…

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Automated segmentation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) from MRI is critical for clinical workflows but is hindered by poor tumor-tissue contrast and a scarcity of annotated data. This paper details our submission to the PANTHER…

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Lesion segmentation, in contrast to natural scene segmentation, requires handling subtle variations in texture and color, frequent imaging artifacts (such as hairs, rulers, and bubbles), and a critical need for precise boundary localization…

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Cancer detection and classification from gigapixel whole slide images of stained tissue specimens has recently experienced enormous progress in computational histopathology. The limitation of available pixel-wise annotated scans shifted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mehdi Naouar , Gabriel Kalweit , Ignacio Mastroleo , Philipp Poxleitner , Marc Metzger , Joschka Boedecker , Maria Kalweit

Accurate nuclei segmentation in histopathological images is crucial for cancer diagnosis. Automating this process offers valuable support to clinical experts, as manual annotation is time-consuming and prone to human errors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ayush Roy , Payel Pramanik , Dmitrii Kaplun , Sergei Antonov , Ram Sarkar

Early detection and segmentation of skin lesions is crucial for timely diagnosis and treatment, necessary to improve the survival rate of patients. However, manual delineation is time consuming and subject to intra- and inter-observer…

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Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

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It is commonly recognized that color variations caused by differences in stains is a critical issue for histopathology image analysis. Existing methods adopt color matching, stain separation, stain transfer or the combination of them to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Hai-Li Ye , Da-Han Wang

We propose a two-step domain shift-invariant mitosis cell detection method based on Faster RCNN and a convolutional neural network (CNN). We generate various domain-shifted versions of existing histopathology images using a stain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ramin Nateghi , Fattaneh Pourakpour

Automating tissue segmentation and tumor detection in histopathology images of colorectal cancer (CRC) is an enabler for faster diagnostic pathology workflows. At the same time it is a challenging task due to low availability of public…

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Most of the current state-of-the-art methods for tumor segmentation are based on machine learning models trained on manually segmented images. This type of training data is particularly costly, as manual delineation of tumors is not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Pawel Mlynarski , Hervé Delingette , Antonio Criminisi , Nicholas Ayache

During the last years, computer vision-based diagnosis systems have been widely used in several hospitals and dermatology clinics, aiming at the early detection of malignant melanoma tumor, which is among the most frequent types of skin…

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Segmentation from renal pathological images is a key step in automatic analyzing the renal histological characteristics. However, the performance of models varies significantly in different types of stained datasets due to the appearance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Ke Mei , Chuang Zhu , Lei Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuanyuan Qiao

Deep learning is expected to aid pathologists by automating tasks such as tumour segmentation. We aimed to develop one universal tumour segmentation model for histopathological images and examine its performance in different cancer types.…

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis. Despite that deep convolutional neural networks have gained stellar performance in this challenging task, they typically rely on large labeled datasets, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Qikui Zhu , Bo Du , Pingkun Yan

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Computer systems can assist in melanoma detection, but are not widespread in clinical practice. In 2016, an open challenge in classification of dermoscopic images of skin lesions was announced.…

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