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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

We consider machine-learning-based thyroid-malignancy prediction from cytopathology whole-slide images (WSI). Multiple instance learning (MIL) approaches, typically used for the analysis of WSIs, divide the image (bag) into patches…

Pathology is experiencing rapid digital transformation driven by whole-slide imaging and artificial intelligence (AI). While deep learning-based computational pathology has achieved notable success, traditional models primarily focus on…

Vision language models (VLM) have achieved success in both natural language comprehension and image recognition tasks. However, their use in pathology report generation for whole slide images (WSIs) is still limited due to the huge size of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jing Wei Tan , SeungKyu Kim , Eunsu Kim , Sung Hak Lee , Sangjeong Ahn , Won-Ki Jeong

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

Histopathological image segmentation is a challenging and important topic in medical imaging with tremendous potential impact in clinical practice. State of the art methods rely on hand-crafted annotations which hinder clinical translation…

Foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated strong performance across diverse pathology tasks. While there are similarities in the pre-training objectives of FMs, there is still limited understanding of their complementarity, redundancy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Brennan Flannery , Thomas DeSilvio , Jane Nguyen , Satish E. Viswanath

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

Pathological image analysis is a crucial field in computer-aided diagnosis, where deep learning is widely applied. Transfer learning using pre-trained models initialized on natural images has effectively improved the downstream pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Nan Ying , Yanli Lei , Tianyi Zhang , Shangqing Lyu , Chunhui Li , Sicheng Chen , Zeyu Liu , Yu Zhao , Guanglei Zhang

Metadata are general characteristics of the data in a well-curated and condensed format, and have been proven to be useful for decision making, knowledge discovery, and also heterogeneous data organization of biobank. Among all data types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Wei-Hung Weng , Yuannan Cai , Angela Lin , Fraser Tan , Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen

Histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) play a very important role in clinical studies and serve as the gold standard for many cancer diagnoses. However, generating automatic tools for processing WSIs is challenging due to their enormous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jingwei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Ke Ma , Rajarsi Gupta , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Dimitris Samaras

The advent of large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) has produced a vast zoo of medical foundation models. However, selecting optimal medical foundation models for specific segmentation tasks remains a computational bottleneck. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiaqi Tang , Shaoyang Zhang , Xiaoqi Wang , Jiaying Zhou , Yang Liu , Qingchao Chen

Foundation models have revolutionized the paradigm of digital pathology, as they leverage general-purpose features to emulate real-world pathological practices, enabling the quantitative analysis of critical histological patterns and the…

Recent advances in whole slide imaging (WSI) technology have led to the development of a myriad of computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) based diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive algorithms. Computational Pathology (CPath)…

Multi-modal learning adeptly integrates visual and textual data, but its application to histopathology image and text analysis remains challenging, particularly with large, high-resolution images like gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Quan Liu , Ruining Deng , Can Cui , Tianyuan Yao , Vishwesh Nath , Yucheng Tang , Yuankai Huo

Advances in foundation modeling have reshaped computational pathology. However, the increasing number of available models and lack of standardized benchmarks make it increasingly complex to assess their strengths, limitations, and potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Andrew Zhang , Guillaume Jaume , Anurag Vaidya , Tong Ding , Faisal Mahmood

While pathology foundation models have transformed cancer image analysis, they often lack integration with molecular data at single-cell resolution, limiting their utility for precision oncology. Here, we present PAST, a pan-cancer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-10 Changchun Yang , Haoyang Li , Yushuai Wu , Yilan Zhang , Yifeng Jiao , Yu Zhang , Rihan Huang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi , Xin Guo , Xin Gao

Digital pathology archives increasingly contain multiple whole-slide images (WSIs) per case, capturing spatially distinct tumour regions and reflecting intrinsic morphological heterogeneity. However, most existing approaches rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zahra Rahimi Afzal , Wataru Uegami , Saghir Alfasly , Saba Yasir , Judy C. Boughey , Matthew P. Goetz , Krishna R. Kalari , H. R. Tizhoosh

Recent advancements in computational pathology have produced patch-level Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), but these models are limited by their inability to analyze whole slide images (WSIs) comprehensively and their tendency to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuci Liang , Xinheng Lyu , Wenting Chen , Meidan Ding , Jipeng Zhang , Xiangjian He , Song Wu , Xiaohan Xing , Sen Yang , Xiyue Wang , Linlin Shen

The expanding adoption of digital pathology has enabled the curation of large repositories of histology whole slide images (WSIs), which contain a wealth of information. Similar pathology image search offers the opportunity to comb through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Chengkuan Chen , Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Andrew J. Schaumberg , Faisal Mahmood