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Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology. Yet, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often acquired at gigapixel sizes, rendering them computationally infeasible to analyze entirely at high resolution. Diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Tarun G , Naman Malpani , Gugan Thoppe , Sridharan Devarajan

We developed a software pipeline for quality control (QC) of histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) that segments various regions, such as blurs of different levels, tissue regions, tissue folds, and pen marks. Given the necessity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Abhijeet Patil , Garima Jain , Harsh Diwakar , Jay Sawant , Tripti Bameta , Swapnil Rane , Amit Sethi

Automated whole slide image (WSI) tagging has become a growing demand due to the increasing volume and diversity of WSIs collected nowadays in histopathology. Various methods have been studied to classify WSIs with single tags but none of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Weijian Li , Viet-Duy Nguyen , Haofu Liao , Matt Wilder , Ke Cheng , Jiebo Luo

Survival prediction based on whole slide images (WSIs) is a challenging task for patient-level multiple instance learning (MIL). Due to the vast amount of data for a patient (one or multiple gigapixels WSIs) and the irregularly shaped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Zhuchen Shao , Yang Chen , Hao Bian , Jian Zhang , Guojun Liu , Yongbing Zhang

Accurate analysis of histopathological images is critical for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Whole-slide images (WSIs), which digitize tissue specimens at gigapixel resolution, are fundamental to this process but require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Enhui Chai , Sicheng Chen , Tianyi Zhang , Chad Wong , Kecheng Huang , Zeyu Liu , Fei Xia

Domain shift is a critical problem for pathology AI as pathology data is heavily influenced by center-specific conditions. Current pathology domain adaptation methods focus on image patches rather than WSI, thus failing to capture global…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Ario Sadafi , Xin You , Katharina Breininger , Nassir Navab , Peter J. Schüffler

Computational pathology involves the digitization of stained tissues into whole-slide images (WSIs) that contain billions of pixels arranged as contiguous patches. Statistical analysis of WSIs largely focuses on classification via multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 So Won Jeong , Veronika Ročková

Advances in optical microscopy scanning have significantly contributed to computational pathology (CPath) by converting traditional histopathological slides into whole slide images (WSIs). This development enables comprehensive digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Xitong Ling , Yuanyuan Lei , Jiawen Li , Junru Cheng , Wenting Huang , Tian Guan , Jian Guan , Yonghong He

The difficulty of processing gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) in clinical microscopy has been a long-standing barrier to implementing computer aided diagnostic systems. Since modern computing resources are unable to perform computations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sam Maksoud , Kun Zhao , Peter Hobson , Anthony Jennings , Brian Lovell

Digital pathology is revolutionizing the field of pathology by enabling the digitization, storage, and analysis of tissue samples as whole slide images (WSIs). WSIs are gigapixel files that capture the intricate details of tissue samples,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 S. Hemati , Krishna R. Kalari , H. R. Tizhoosh

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks. However, to recognize cancer subtypes automatically, training a CNN on gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Tissue Images (WSI) is currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Le Hou , Dimitris Samaras , Tahsin M. Kurc , Yi Gao , James E. Davis , Joel H. Saltz

Automatic outlining of different tissue types in digitized histological specimen provides a basis for follow-up analyses and can potentially guide subsequent medical decisions. The immense size of whole-slide-images (WSI), however, poses a…

Whole slide image (WSI) analysis in digital pathology presents unique challenges due to the gigapixel resolution of WSIs and the scarcity of dense supervision signals. While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a natural fit for slide-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sofiène Boutaj , Marin Scalbert , Pierre Marza , Florent Couzinie-Devy , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and their multi-scale and hierarchical variations have been successful at capturing image representations but their use has been generally studied for low-resolution images (e.g. - 256x256, 384384). For gigapixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Richard J. Chen , Chengkuan Chen , Yicong Li , Tiffany Y. Chen , Andrew D. Trister , Rahul G. Krishnan , Faisal Mahmood

Recently there have been many algorithms proposed for the classification of very high resolution whole slide images (WSIs). These new algorithms are mostly focused on finding novel ways to combine the information from small local patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Long Nguyen , Aiden Nibali , Joshua Millward , Zhen He

Breast cancer survival prediction in computational pathology presents a remarkable challenge due to tumor heterogeneity. For instance, different regions of the same tumor in the pathology image can show distinct morphological and molecular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yang Luo , Shiru Wang , Jun Liu , Jiaxuan Xiao , Rundong Xue , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Zhang , Yu Lu , Yang Zhao , Yutong Xie

One of the main obstacles of adopting digital pathology is the challenge of efficient processing of hyperdimensional digitized biopsy samples, called whole slide images (WSIs). Exploiting deep learning and introducing compact WSI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Taher Dehkharghanian , Abtin Riasatian , H. R. Tizhoosh

In digital pathology, whole slide images (WSIs) are widely used for applications such as cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction. Visual transformer models have recently emerged as a promising method for encoding large regions of WSIs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuai Jiang , Liesbeth Hondelink , Arief A. Suriawinata , Saeed Hassanpour

Pathology images are considered the ``gold standard" for cancer diagnosis and treatment, with gigapixel images providing extensive tissue and cellular information. Existing methods fail to simultaneously extract global structural and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Haoming Luo , Xiaotian Yu , Shengxuming Zhang , Jiabin Xia , Yang Jian , Yuning Sun , Liang Xue , Mingli Song , Jing Zhang , Xiuming Zhang , Zunlei Feng

Learning high-quality, self-supervised, visual representations is essential to advance the role of computer vision in biomedical microscopy and clinical medicine. Previous work has focused on self-supervised representation learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Cheng Jiang , Xinhai Hou , Akhil Kondepudi , Asadur Chowdury , Christian W. Freudiger , Daniel A. Orringer , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon