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The progression of breast cancer can be quantified in lymph node whole-slide images (WSIs). We describe a novel method for effectively performing classification of whole-slide images and patient level breast cancer grading. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Thomas Wollmann , Karl Rohr

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

Histopathology tissue analysis is considered the gold standard in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Given the large size of these images and the increase in the number of potential cancer cases, an automated solution as an aid to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Mahendra Khened , Avinash Kori , Haran Rajkumar , Balaji Srinivasan , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

In digital pathology, segmenting densely distributed objects like glands and nuclei is crucial for downstream analysis. Since detailed pixel-wise annotations are very time-consuming, we need semi-supervised segmentation methods that can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Meilong Xu , Xiaoling Hu , Saumya Gupta , Shahira Abousamra , Chao Chen

Cell detection in histopathology images is of great interest to clinical practice and research, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable cell detection results. Typically, to train CNN-based cell detection models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zipei Zhao , Fengqian Pang , Yaou Liu , Zhiwen Liu , Chuyang Ye

Histopathology images contain essential information for medical diagnosis and prognosis of cancerous disease. Segmentation of glands in histopathology images is a primary step for analysis and diagnosis of an unhealthy patient. Due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Safiyeh Rezaei , Ali Emami , Hamidreza Zarrabi , Shima Rafiei , Kayvan Najarian , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr

One of the most challenges in medical imaging is the lack of data and annotated data. It is proven that classical segmentation methods such as U-NET are useful but still limited due to the lack of annotated data. Using a weakly supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Amine Amyar , Romain Modzelewski , Pierre Vera , Vincent Morard , Su Ruan

Histopathological cancer diagnostics has become more complex, and the increasing number of biopsies is a challenge for most pathology laboratories. Thus, development of automatic methods for evaluation of histopathological cancer sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 André Pedersen , Erik Smistad , Tor V. Rise , Vibeke G. Dale , Henrik S. Pettersen , Tor-Arne S. Nordmo , David Bouget , Ingerid Reinertsen , Marit Valla

Tumor segmentation plays a critical role in histopathology, but it requires costly, fine-grained image-mask pairs annotated by pathologists. Thus, synthesizing histopathology data to expand the dataset is highly desirable. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Evi M. C. Huijben , Mark Schuiveling , Ruisheng Su , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

The classification of histopathology images fundamentally differs from traditional image classification tasks because histopathology images naturally exhibit a range of diagnostic features, resulting in a diverse range of annotator…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Jerry Wei , Lorenzo Torresani , Jason Wei , Saeed Hassanpour

Poor performance of quantitative analysis in histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSI) has been a significant obstacle in clinical practice. Annotating large-scale WSIs manually is a demanding and time-consuming task, unlikely to yield the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sarah Cechnicka , James Ball , Hadrien Reynaud , Callum Arthurs , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

Pathological image analysis is an important process for detecting abnormalities such as cancer from cell images. However, since the image size is generally very large, the cost of providing detailed annotations is high, which makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Shusuke Takahama , Yusuke Kurose , Yusuke Mukuta , Hiroyuki Abe , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Tetsuo Ushiku , Masashi Fukayama , Masanobu Kitagawa , Masaru Kitsuregawa , Tatsuya Harada

Diagnosing basal cell carcinomas (BCC), one of the most common cutaneous malignancies in humans, is a task regularly performed by pathologists and dermato-pathologists. Improving histological diagnosis by providing diagnosis suggestions,…

In the last few years, deep learning classifiers have shown promising results in image-based medical diagnosis. However, interpreting the outputs of these models remains a challenge. In cancer diagnosis, interpretability can be achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kangning Liu , Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jakub Chłędowski , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Krzysztof J. Geras

For diagnosing melanoma, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue slides remains the gold standard. These images contain quantitative information in different magnifications. In the present study, we investigated whether deep…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-15 Peizhen Xie , Ke Zuo , Yu Zhang , Fangfang Li , Mingzhu Yin , Kai Lu

Developing clinically useful cell-level analysis tools in digital pathology remains challenging due to limitations in dataset granularity, inconsistent annotations, high computational demands, and difficulties integrating new technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikita Shvetsov , Thomas K. Kilvaer , Masoud Tafavvoghi , Anders Sildnes , Kajsa Møllersen , Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund , Lars Ailo Bongo

Computational analysis of whole slide images (WSIs) has seen significant research progress in recent years, with applications ranging across important diagnostic and prognostic tasks such as survival or cancer subtype prediction. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zak Buzzard , Konstantin Hemker , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

Skin cancer is one of the deadliest diseases and has a high mortality rate if left untreated. The diagnosis generally starts with visual screening and is followed by a biopsy or histopathological examination. Early detection can aid in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mahapara Khurshid , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Segmenting tumors in histological images is vital for cancer diagnosis. While fully supervised models excel with pixel-level annotations, creating such annotations is labor-intensive and costly. Accurate histopathology image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yinsheng He , Xingyu Li , Roger J. Zemp

In the field of image classification, existing methods often struggle with biased or ambiguous data, a prevalent issue in real-world scenarios. Current strategies, including semi-supervised learning and class blending, offer partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Lars Schmarje , Vasco Grossmann , Claudius Zelenka , Johannes Brünger , Reinhard Koch