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Automatic integration of whole slide images (WSIs) and gene expression profiles has demonstrated substantial potential in precision clinical diagnosis and cancer progression studies. However, most existing studies focus on individual gene…

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Whole-slide images (WSI) in computational pathology have high resolution with gigapixel size, but are generally with sparse regions of interest, which leads to weak diagnostic relevance and data inefficiency for each area in the slide. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Boxuan Zhao , Jun Zhang , Deheng Ye , Jian Cao , Xiao Han , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang

This paper addresses the problem of liver cancer segmentation in Whole Slide Image (WSI). We propose a multi-scale image processing method based on automatic end-to-end deep neural network algorithm for segmentation of cancer area. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Yanbo Feng , Adel Hafiane , Hélène Laurent

Transformer has been widely used in histopathology whole slide image (WSI) classification for the purpose of tumor grading, prognosis analysis, etc. However, the design of token-wise self-attention and positional embedding strategy in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yushan Zheng , Jun Li , Jun Shi , Fengying Xie , Zhiguo Jiang

Cervical Cancer continues to be the leading gynecological malignancy, posing a persistent threat to women's health on a global scale. Early screening via cytology Whole Slide Image (WSI) diagnosis is critical to prevent this Cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Honglin Li , Yusuan Sun , Chenglu Zhu , Yunlong Zhang , Shichuan Zhang , Zhongyi Shui , Pingyi Chen , Jingxiong Li , Sunyi Zheng , Can Cui , Lin Yang

Purpose: In this work, we present a collaboration to create a validation dataset of pathologist annotations for algorithms that process whole slide images (WSIs). We focus on data collection and evaluation of algorithm performance in the…

Microscopic interpretation of histopathology images underlies many important diagnostic and treatment decisions. While advances in vision-language modeling raise new opportunities for analysis of such images, the gigapixel-scale size of…

Encoding whole slide images (WSI) as graphs is well motivated since it makes it possible for the gigapixel resolution WSI to be represented in its entirety for the purpose of graph learning. To this end, WSIs can be broken into smaller…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani

Whole-slide image (WSI) analysis remains challenging due to the gigapixel scale and sparsely distributed diagnostic regions. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) mitigates this by modeling the WSI as bags of patches for slide-level prediction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yujian Liu , Yuechuan Lin , Dongxu Shen , Haoran Li , Yutong Wang , Xiaoli Liu , Shidang Xu

Foundation models are rapidly being developed for computational pathology applications. However, it remains an open question which factors are most important for downstream performance with data scale and diversity, model size, and training…

In histopathology, tissue samples are often larger than a standard microscope slide, making stitching of multiple fragments necessary to process entire structures such as tumors. Automated stitching is a prerequisite for scaling analysis,…

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In pathology, whole-slide images (WSI) based survival prediction has attracted increasing interest. However, given the large size of WSIs and the lack of pathologist annotations, extracting the prognostic information from WSIs remains a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Shuai Jiang , Arief A. Suriawinata , Saeed Hassanpour

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) in digital pathology are used to diagnose cancer subtypes. The difference in procedures to acquire WSIs at various trial sites gives rise to variability in the histopathology images, thus making consistent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Milad Sikaroudi , Shahryar Rahnamayan , H. R. Tizhoosh

We propose a new method for cancer subtype classification from histopathological images, which can automatically detect tumor-specific features in a given whole slide image (WSI). The cancer subtype should be classified by referring to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Noriaki Hashimoto , Daisuke Fukushima , Ryoichi Koga , Yusuke Takagi , Kaho Ko , Kei Kohno , Masato Nakaguro , Shigeo Nakamura , Hidekata Hontani , Ichiro Takeuchi

Multiple instance learning is an ideal mode of analysis for histopathology data, where vast whole slide images are typically annotated with a single global label. In such cases, a whole slide image is modelled as a collection of tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Leo Fillioux , Joseph Boyd , Maria Vakalopoulou , Paul-Henry Cournède , Stergios Christodoulidis

Histopathology images; microscopy images of stained tissue biopsies contain fundamental prognostic information that forms the foundation of pathological analysis and diagnostic medicine. However, diagnostics from histopathology images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Aïcha BenTaieb , Ghassan Hamarneh

An accurate steatosis quantification with pathology tissue samples is of high clinical importance. However, such pathology measurement is manually made in most clinical practices, subject to severe reader variability due to large sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Mousumi Roy , Fusheng Wang , George Teodoro , Miriam B Vos , Alton Brad Farris , Jun Kong

Histopathology image analysis is the golden standard of clinical diagnosis for Cancers. In doctors daily routine and computer-aided diagnosis, the Whole Slide Image (WSI) of histopathology tissue is used for analysis. Because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Honglin Li , Yunlong Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Jiatong Cai , Sunyi Zheng , Lin Yang

The histopathology analysis is of great significance for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancers, however, it has great challenges due to the enormous heterogeneity of gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) and the intricate representation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Mingxin Liu , Yunzan Liu , Pengbo Xu , Jiquan Ma

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning have enabled the use of large unlabeled datasets to train visual foundation models that can generalize to a variety of downstream tasks. While this training paradigm is well suited for the…