English
Related papers

Related papers: Molecular-driven Foundation Model for Oncologic Pa…

200 papers

Medical image segmentation is crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment planning, yet developing robust segmentation models often requires substantial computational resources and large datasets. Existing research shows that pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Paul Zaha , Lars Böcking , Simeon Allmendinger , Leopold Müller , Niklas Kühl

Pathology is the study of microscopic inspection of tissue, and a pathology diagnosis is often the medical gold standard to diagnose disease. Pathology images provide a unique challenge for computer-vision-based analysis: a single pathology…

The emergence of large multimodal models (LMMs) has brought significant advancements to pathology. Previous research has primarily focused on separately training patch-level and whole-slide image (WSI)-level models, limiting the integration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Sun , Yixuan Si , Chenglu Zhu , Xuan Gong , Kai Zhang , Pingyi Chen , Ye Zhang , Zhongyi Shui , Tao Lin , Lin Yang

Histopathological images are widely used for the analysis of diseased (tumor) tissues and patient treatment selection. While the majority of microscopy image processing was previously done manually by pathologists, recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Andrey Ignatov , Josephine Yates , Valentina Boeva

The histopathological analysis of whole-slide images (WSIs) is fundamental to cancer diagnosis but is a time-consuming and expert-driven process. While deep learning methods show promising results, dominant patch-based methods artificially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Alexander Weers , Alexander H. Berger , Laurin Lux , Peter Schüffler , Daniel Rueckert , Johannes C. Paetzold

To handle the large scale of whole slide images in computational pathology, most approaches first tessellate the images into smaller patches, extract features from these patches, and finally aggregate the feature vectors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Benedikt Roth , Valentin Koch , Sophia J. Wagner , Julia A. Schnabel , Carsten Marr , Tingying Peng

Large amounts of digitized histopathological data display a promising future for developing pathological foundation models via self-supervised learning methods. Foundation models pretrained with these methods serve as a good basis for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shengyi Hua , Fang Yan , Tianle Shen , Lei Ma , Xiaofan Zhang

Graphs are a central representation in biomedical research, capturing molecular interaction networks, gene regulatory circuits, cell--cell communication maps, and knowledge graphs. Despite their importance, currently there is not a broadly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Sakib Mostafa , Lei Xing , Md. Tauhidul Islam

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

Revealing novel insights from the relationship between molecular measurements and pathology remains a very impactful application of machine learning in biomedicine. Data in this domain typically contain only a few observations but thousands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Christopher Kolberg , Jules Kreuer , Jonas Huurdeman , Sofiane Ouaari , Katharina Eggensperger , Nico Pfeifer

Computational analysis of whole slide images (WSIs) has seen significant research progress in recent years, with applications ranging across important diagnostic and prognostic tasks such as survival or cancer subtype prediction. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zak Buzzard , Konstantin Hemker , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

The deep neural network is a research hotspot for histopathological image analysis, which can improve the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis for pathologists or be used for disease screening. The whole slide pathological image can reach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Tingting Zheng , Weixing chen , Shuqin Li , Hao Quan , Qun Bai , Tianhang Nan , Song Zheng , Xinghua Gao , Yue Zhao , Xiaoyu Cui

Foundation models have recently emerged as powerful feature extractors in computational pathology, yet they typically omit mechanisms for leveraging the global spatial structure of tissues and the local contextual relationships among…

Background and objective: Cell-level pathological image analysis requires working with extremely small image patches (40x40 pixels), far below standard ImageNet resolutions. It remains unclear whether modern deep learning architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hiroki Kagiyama , Toru Nagasaka , Yukari Adachi , Takaaki Tachibana , Ryota Ito , Mitsugu Fujita , Kimihiro Yamashita , Yoshihiro Kakeji

In hematology, computational models offer significant potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, streamline workflows, and reduce the tedious work of analyzing single cells in peripheral blood or bone marrow smears. However, clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Valentin Koch , Sophia J. Wagner , Salome Kazeminia , Ece Sancar , Matthias Hehr , Julia Schnabel , Tingying Peng , Carsten Marr

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

Progress in a research field can be hard to assess, in particular when many concurrent methods are proposed in a short period of time. This is the case in digital pathology, where many foundation models have been released recently to serve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Pierre Marza , Leo Fillioux , Sofiène Boutaj , Kunal Mahatha , Christian Desrosiers , Pablo Piantanida , Jose Dolz , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou

Foundation models, often pre-trained with large-scale data, have achieved paramount success in jump-starting various vision and language applications. Recent advances further enable adapting foundation models in downstream tasks efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Dequan Wang , Xiaosong Wang , Lilong Wang , Mengzhang Li , Qian Da , Xiaoqiang Liu , Xiangyu Gao , Jun Shen , Junjun He , Tian Shen , Qi Duan , Jie Zhao , Kang Li , Yu Qiao , Shaoting Zhang

Cell-level dense prediction is central to computational pathology, but remains challenging due to fine-grained histological structures, strong domain shifts, and costly dense annotations. Existing ViT-based pathology foundation models rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weiming Chen , Xitong Ling , Zhenyang Cai , Xidong Wang , Jiawen Li , Tian Guan , Benyou Wang , Yonghong He

Foundation models are reshaping computational histopathology, yet their value for whole-slide image retrieval relative to strong patch-based and supervised aggregation baselines remains unclear. We benchmarked ten pipelines on 9,387…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tianhao Lei , Parsa Esmaeilkhani , Saghir Alfasly , Wataru Uegami , Judy C. Boughey , Matthew P. Goetz , Krishna R. Kalari , H. R. Tizhoosh