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Predicting the response of a patient to a cancer treatment is of high interest. Nonetheless, this task is still challenging from a medical point of view due to the complexity of the interaction between the patient organism and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Bilel Guetarni , Feryal Windal , Halim Benhabiles , Mahfoud Chaibi , Romain Dubois , Emmanuelle Leteurtre , Dominique Collard

The field of computational pathology has recently seen rapid advances driven by the development of modern vision foundation models (FMs), typically trained on vast collections of pathology images. Recent studies demonstrate that increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mikhail Karasikov , Joost van Doorn , Nicolas Känzig , Melis Erdal Cesur , Hugo Mark Horlings , Robert Berke , Fei Tang , Sebastian Otálora

With the advanced imaging technology, digital pathology imaging of tumor tissue slides is becoming a routine clinical procedure for cancer diagnosis. This process produces massive imaging data that capture histological details in high…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-10 Esteban Fernández Morales , Cong Zhang , Guanghua Xiao , Chul Moon , Qiwei Li

Purpose: Medical foundation models (FMs) offer a path to build high-performance diagnostic systems. However, their application to prostate cancer (PCa) detection from micro-ultrasound ({\mu}US) remains untested in clinical settings. We…

Histopathological images of tumors contain abundant information about how tumors grow and how they interact with their micro-environment. Better understanding of tissue phenotypes in these images could reveal novel determinants of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Adalberto Claudio Quiros , Roderick Murray-Smith , Ke Yuan

Gene expression can be used to subtype breast cancer with improved prediction of risk of recurrence and treatment responsiveness over that obtained using routine immunohistochemistry (IHC). However, in the clinic, molecular profiling is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Raktim Kumar Mondol , Ewan K. A. Millar , Peter H Graham , Lois Browne , Arcot Sowmya , Erik Meijering

Histopathology serves as the gold standard in cancer diagnosis, with clinical reports being vital in interpreting and understanding this process, guiding cancer treatment and patient care. The automation of histopathology report generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhengrui Guo , Jiabo Ma , Yingxue Xu , Yihui Wang , Liansheng Wang , Hao Chen

Deep learning based medical image recognition systems often require a substantial amount of training data with expert annotations, which can be expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Recently, synthetic augmentation techniques have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jiarong Ye , Haomiao Ni , Peng Jin , Sharon X. Huang , Yuan Xue

We present a fully automated, anatomically guided deep learning pipeline for prostate cancer (PCa) risk stratification using routine MRI. The pipeline integrates three key components: an nnU-Net module for segmenting the prostate gland and…

Foundation models are reshaping computational pathology by enabling transfer learning, where models pre-trained on vast datasets can be adapted for downstream diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic response tasks. Despite these advances,…

We hypothesize that anatomical priors can be viable mediums to infuse domain-specific clinical knowledge into state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNN) based on the U-Net architecture. We introduce a probabilistic population…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Anindo Saha , Matin Hosseinzadeh , Henkjan Huisman

Tissue phenotyping is a fundamental task in learning objective characterizations of histopathologic biomarkers within the tumor-immune microenvironment in cancer pathology. However, whole-slide imaging (WSI) is a complex computer vision in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Richard J. Chen , Rahul G. Krishnan

Background and objective: Cell-level pathological image analysis requires working with extremely small image patches (40x40 pixels), far below standard ImageNet resolutions. It remains unclear whether modern deep learning architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hiroki Kagiyama , Toru Nagasaka , Yukari Adachi , Takaaki Tachibana , Ryota Ito , Mitsugu Fujita , Kimihiro Yamashita , Yoshihiro Kakeji

Multimodal alignment of histopathology encoders with transcriptomic and genomic data has been shown to significantly improve performance in downstream diagnostic tasks. Hematological cytology is unique in that visual single-cell evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Muhammed Furkan Dasdelen , Fatih Ozlugedik , Ilaria Looser , Rao Muhammad Umer , Christian Pohlkamp , Carsten Marr

Accurate semantic segmentation for histopathology image is crucial for quantitative tissue analysis and downstream clinical modeling. Recent segmentation foundation models have improved generalization through large-scale pretraining, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Peixian Liang , Songhao Li , Shunsuke Koga , Yutong Li , Zahra Alipour , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Zhi Huang

Histopathological image analysis is a reliable method for prostate cancer identification. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of two approaches for segmenting glandular structures in prostate images to automate Gleason grading.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Feda Bolus Al Baqain , Omar Sultan Al-Kadi

We present HistoAtlas, a pan-cancer computational atlas that extracts 38 interpretable histomic features from 6,745 diagnostic H&E slides across 21 TCGA cancer types and systematically links every feature to survival, gene expression,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Pierre-Antoine Bannier

Foundation models (FMs) are transforming computational pathology by offering new ways to analyze histopathology images. However, FMs typically require weeks of training on large databases, making their creation a resource-intensive process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Till Nicke , Daniela Schacherer , Jan Raphael Schäfer , Natalia Artysh , Antje Prasse , André Homeyer , Andrea Schenk , Henning Höfener , Johannes Lotz

Nuclear segmentation and classification within Haematoxylin & Eosin stained histology images is a fundamental prerequisite in the digital pathology work-flow. The development of automated methods for nuclear segmentation and classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Simon Graham , Quoc Dang Vu , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Ayesha Azam , Yee Wah Tsang , Jin Tae Kwak , Nasir Rajpoot

Recent advancements in foundation models have transformed computer vision, driving significant performance improvements across diverse domains, including digital histopathology. However, the advantages of domain-specific histopathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Valentina Vadori , Antonella Peruffo , Jean-Marie Graïc , Livio Finos , Enrico Grisan