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Patching gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is an important task in computational pathology. Some methods have been proposed to select a subset of patches as WSI representation for downstream tasks. While most of the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Peyman Nejat , Areej Alsaafin , Ghazal Alabtah , Nneka Comfere , Aaron Mangold , Dennis Murphree , Patricija Zot , Saba Yasir , Joaquin J. Garcia , H. R. Tizhoosh

Digital pathology, augmented by artificial intelligence (AI), holds significant promise for improving the workflow of pathologists. However, challenges such as the labor-intensive annotation of whole slide images (WSIs), high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Walid Rehamnia , Alexandra Getmanskaya , Evgeniy Vasilyev , Vadim Turlapov

Molecular subtypes of breast cancer are important references to personalized clinical treatment. For cost and labor savings, only one of the patient's paraffin blocks is usually selected for subsequent immunohistochemistry (IHC) to obtain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Hong Liu , Wen-Dong Xu , Zi-Hao Shang , Xiang-Dong Wang , Hai-Yan Zhou , Ke-Wen Ma , Huan Zhou , Jia-Lin Qi , Jia-Rui Jiang , Li-Lan Tan , Hui-Min Zeng , Hui-Juan Cai , Kuan-Song Wang , Yue-Liang Qian

Diagnosing a whole-slide image is an interactive, multi-stage process of changing magnification and moving between fields. Although recent pathology foundation models demonstrated superior performances, practical agentic systems that decide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sheng Wang , Ruiming Wu , Charles Herndon , Yihang Liu , Shunsuke Koga , Jeanne Shen , Zhi Huang

Remarkable strides in computational pathology have been made in the task-agnostic foundation model that advances the performance of a wide array of downstream clinical tasks. Despite the promising performance, there are still several…

The multi-scale information among the whole slide images (WSIs) is essential for cancer diagnosis. Although the existing multi-scale vision Transformer has shown its effectiveness for learning multi-scale image representation, it still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Saisai Ding , Juncheng Li , Jun Wang , Shihui Ying , Jun Shi

Fine-grained classification of whole slide images (WSIs) is essential in precision oncology, enabling precise cancer diagnosis and personalized treatment strategies. The core of this task involves distinguishing subtle morphological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Cheng Jin , Luyang Luo , Huangjing Lin , Jun Hou , Hao Chen

Few-shot learning presents a critical solution for cancer diagnosis in computational pathology (CPath), addressing fundamental limitations in data availability, particularly the scarcity of expert annotations and patient privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhengrui Guo , Conghao Xiong , Jiabo Ma , Qichen Sun , Lishuang Feng , Jinzhuo Wang , Hao Chen

Grading precancerous lesions on whole slide images is a challenging task: the continuous space of morphological phenotypes makes clear-cut decisions between different grades often difficult, leading to low inter- and intra-rater agreements.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Mélanie Lubrano , Yaëlle Bellahsen-Harrar , Rutger Fick , Cécile Badoual , Thomas Walter

Current multi-instance learning algorithms for pathology image analysis often require a substantial number of Whole Slide Images for effective training but exhibit suboptimal performance in scenarios with limited learning data. In clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Linhao Qu , Dingkang Yang , Dan Huang , Qinhao Guo , Rongkui Luo , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaosong Wang

A crucial step to efficiently integrate Whole Slide Images (WSIs) in computational pathology is assigning a single high-quality feature vector, i.e., one embedding, to each WSI. With the existence of many pre-trained deep neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Sobhan Hemati , Ghazal Alabtah , Saghir Alfasly , H. R. Tizhoosh

Multi-Instance Learning (MIL) has shown impressive performance for histopathology whole slide image (WSI) analysis using bags or pseudo-bags. It involves instance sampling, feature representation, and decision-making. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Tingting Zheng , Kui Jiang , Hongxun Yao

Histopathological analysis is the present gold standard for precancerous lesion diagnosis. The goal of automated histopathological classification from digital images requires supervised training, which requires a large number of expert…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Yuan Xue , Jiarong Ye , Qianying Zhou , Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Carl Cornwell , Richard Zaino , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Digital pathology has advanced significantly over the last decade, with Whole Slide Images (WSIs) encompassing vast amounts of data essential for accurate disease diagnosis. High-resolution WSIs are essential for precise diagnosis but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Xuan Xu , Saarthak Kapse , Prateek Prasanna

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed digital pathology by enabling biomarker prediction from high-resolution whole-slide images (WSIs). However, current methods are computationally inefficient, processing thousands of redundant…

The burgeoning discipline of computational pathology shows promise in harnessing whole slide images (WSIs) to quantify morphological heterogeneity and develop objective prognostic modes for human cancers. However, progress is impeded by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chao Tu , Kun Huang , Jie Zhang , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang , Zhenyuan Ning

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

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), in particular self-supervised learning of foundation models (FMs), are revolutionizing medical imaging and computational pathology (CPath). A constant challenge in the analysis of digital…

Histology slide digitization is becoming essential for telepathology (remote consultation), knowledge sharing (education), and using the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms (augmented/automated end-to-end clinical…

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