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Foundation models have exhibited remarkable success in various applications, such as disease diagnosis and text report generation. To date, a foundation model for endoscopic video analysis is still lacking. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Zhao Wang , Chang Liu , Shaoting Zhang , Qi Dou

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables gene expression mapping within anatomical context but remains costly and low-throughput. Hematoxylin and eosin (H\&E) staining offers rich morphology yet lacks molecular resolution. We present…

Predicting spatial gene expression from H&E histology offers a scalable and clinically accessible alternative to sequencing, but realizing clinical impact requires models that generalize across cancer types and capture biologically coherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Susu Hu , Qinghe Zeng , Nithya Bhasker , Jakob Nikolas Kather , Stefanie Speidel

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

Histopathology is a reflection of the molecular changes and provides prognostic phenotypes representing the disease progression. In this study, we introduced feature scores generated from hematoxylin and eosin histology images based on deep…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-28 Okyaz Eminaga , Mahmood Abbas , Yuri Tolkach , Rosalie Nolley , Christian Kunder , Axel Semjonow , Martin Boegemann

Histopathology foundation models (HFMs), pretrained on large-scale cancer datasets, have advanced computational pathology. However, their applicability to non-cancerous chronic kidney disease remains underexplored, despite coexistence of…

Histopathological images contain rich phenotypic information that can be used to monitor underlying mechanisms contributing to diseases progression and patient survival outcomes. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Chetan L. Srinidhi , Ozan Ciga , Anne L. Martel

Self-supervised pretraining attempts to enhance model performance by obtaining effective features from unlabeled data, and has demonstrated its effectiveness in the field of histopathology images. Despite its success, few works concentrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zhiyun Song , Penghui Du , Junpeng Yan , Kailu Li , Jianzhong Shou , Maode Lai , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

Foundation models trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale histological images have significantly accelerated the development of computational pathology. These models can serve as backbones for region-of-interest (ROI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiawen Li , Jiali Hu , Xitong Ling , Yongqiang Lv , Yuxuan Chen , Yizhi Wang , Tian Guan , Yifei Liu , Yonghong He

Vision foundation models (VFMs), such as DINOv3, provide rich semantic representations that are promising for computational pathology. However, many current adaptations pair frozen VFMs with lightweight decoders, creating a capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tianyang Wang , Ziyu Su , Abdul Rehman Akbar , Usama Sajjad , Usman Afzaal , Lina Gokhale , Charles Rabolli , Wei Chen , Anil Parwani , Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi

Identification and counting of cells and mitotic figures is a standard task in diagnostic histopathology. Due to the large overall cell count on histological slides and the potential sparse prevalence of some relevant cell types or mitotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Marc Aubreville , Maximilian Krappmann , Christof Bertram , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

Large amounts of digitized histopathological data display a promising future for developing pathological foundation models via self-supervised learning methods. Foundation models pretrained with these methods serve as a good basis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shengyi Hua , Fang Yan , Tianle Shen , Lei Ma , Xiaofan Zhang

Recently, deep neural networks have greatly advanced histopathology image segmentation but usually require abundant annotated data. However, due to the gigapixel scale of whole slide images and pathologists' heavy daily workload, obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Wentao Pan , Jiangpeng Yan , Hanbo Chen , Jiawei Yang , Zhe Xu , Xiu Li , Jianhua Yao

Medical image segmentation assists in computer-aided diagnosis, surgeries, and treatment. Digitize tissue slide images are used to analyze and segment glands, nuclei, and other biomarkers which are further used in computer-aided medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Saad Wazir , Muhammad Moazam Fraz

Background: The integration of multi-stain histopathology images through deep learning poses a significant challenge in digital histopathology. Current multi-modal approaches struggle with data heterogeneity and missing data. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Valentin Koch , Sabine Bauer , Valerio Luppberger , Michael Joner , Heribert Schunkert , Julia A. Schnabel , Moritz von Scheidt , Carsten Marr

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

In recent years, histopathology images have been increasingly used as a diagnostic tool in the medical field. The process of accurately diagnosing a biopsy sample requires significant expertise in the field, and as such can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Alison K. Cheeseman , Hamid Tizhoosh , Edward R. Vrscay

Computational pathology, which involves analyzing whole slide images for automated cancer diagnosis, relies on multiple instance learning, where performance depends heavily on the feature extractor and aggregator. Recent Pathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Conghao Xiong , Hao Chen , Joseph J. Y. Sung

AI-assisted imaging made substantial advances in tumor diagnosis and management. However, a major barrier to developing robust oncology foundation models is the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality annotated datasets, which are limited by…

Artificial intelligence has started to transform histopathology impacting clinical diagnostics and biomedical research. However, while many computational pathology approaches have been proposed, most current AI models are limited with…