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Histopathological image analysis is an essential process for the discovery of diseases such as cancer. However, it is challenging to train CNN on whole slide images (WSIs) of gigapixel resolution considering the available memory capacity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Shusuke Takahama , Yusuke Kurose , Yusuke Mukuta , Hiroyuki Abe , Masashi Fukayama , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Masanobu Kitagawa , Tatsuya Harada

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

Breast cancer remains a critical global health challenge, necessitating early and accurate detection for effective treatment. This paper introduces a methodology that combines automated image augmentation selection (RandAugment) with search…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Leon Hamnett , Mary Adewunmi , Modinat Abayomi , Kayode Raheem , Fahad Ahmed

Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Wang , Yixin Zhu , Yongbin Zhu , Fengyuan Shi , Qi Li , Jun Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Keli Hu

The synergistic interpretation of anatomical information from computed tomography (CT) and metabolic information from positron emission tomography (PET) is important to oncologic imaging. However, existing deep learning methods for PET/CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Xiaofeng Liu , Qianru Zhang , Thibault Marin , Menghua Xia , Chi Liu , Georges El Fakhri , Jinsong Ouyang

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, and early diagnosis is crucial for patient survival. Deep learning algorithms have great potential for automatic cancer analysis. Artificial intelligence has achieved high performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Monika Górka , Daniel Jaworek , Marek Wodzinski

Increased levels of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in cancer tissue indicate favourable outcomes in many types of cancer. Manual quantification of immune cells is inaccurate and time consuming for pathologists. Our aim is to leverage…

Tumor region segmentation is an essential task for the quantitative analysis of digital pathology. Recently presented deep neural networks have shown state-of-the-art performance in various image-segmentation tasks. However, because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Seonghui Min , Won-Ki Jeong

Cancer is an abnormal growth with potential to invade locally and metastasize to distant organs. Accurate auto-segmentation of the tumor and surrounding normal tissues is required for radiotherapy treatment plan optimization. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Syed Haider Ali , Asrar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Asifullah Khan , Nadeem Shaukat

Blood vessels (BVs) play a critical role in the Tumor Micro-Environment (TME), potentially influencing cancer progression and treatment response. However, manually quantifying BVs in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images is challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Jiaqi Lv , Stefan S Antonowicz , Shan E Ahmed Raza

In medical imaging, organ/pathology segmentation models trained on current publicly available and fully-annotated datasets usually do not well-represent the heterogeneous modalities, phases, pathologies, and clinical scenarios encountered…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Ashwin Raju , Chi-Tung Cheng , Yunakai Huo , Jinzheng Cai , Junzhou Huang , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , ChienHuang Liao , Adam P Harrison

Electron tomography (ET) allows high-resolution reconstructions of macromolecular complexes at nearnative state. Cellular structures segmentation in the reconstruction data from electron tomographic images is often required for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Enze Zhang , Fa Zhang , Zhiyong Liu , Xiaohua Wan , Lifa Zhu

In recent years, a standard computational pathology workflow has emerged where whole slide images are cropped into tiles, these tiles are processed using a foundation model, and task-specific models are built using the resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Eric Zimmermann , Julian Viret , Michal Zelechowski , James Brian Hall , Neil Tenenholtz , Adam Casson , George Shaikovski , Eugene Vorontsov , Siqi Liu , Kristen A Severson

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

Automatic segmentation of tumor lesions is a critical initial processing step for quantitative PET/CT analysis. However, numerous tumor lesion with different shapes, sizes, and uptake intensity may be distributed in different anatomical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Shaonan Zhong , Junyang Mo , Zhantao Liu

Pathologic analysis of surgical excision specimens for breast carcinoma is important to evaluate the completeness of surgical excision and has implications for future treatment. This analysis is performed manually by pathologists reviewing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 David Joon Ho , Dig V. K. Yarlagadda , Timothy M. D'Alfonso , Matthew G. Hanna , Anne Grabenstetter , Peter Ntiamoah , Edi Brogi , Lee K. Tan , Thomas J. Fuchs

Tumor lesion segmentation on CT or MRI images plays a critical role in cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Considering the inherent differences in tumor lesion segmentation data across various medical imaging modalities and equipment,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Hairong Shi , Songhao Han , Shaofei Huang , Yue Liao , Guanbin Li , Xiangxing Kong , Hua Zhu , Xiaomu Wang , Si Liu

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

Pathology image segmentation across multiple centers encounters significant challenges due to diverse sources of heterogeneity including imaging modalities, organs, and scanning equipment, whose variability brings representation bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yuan Zhang , Feng Chen , Yaolei Qi , Guanyu Yang , Huazhu Fu

Tumor segmentation plays a critical role in histopathology, but it requires costly, fine-grained image-mask pairs annotated by pathologists. Thus, synthesizing histopathology data to expand the dataset is highly desirable. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Evi M. C. Huijben , Mark Schuiveling , Ruisheng Su , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta