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Large pretrained transformers are increasingly being developed as generalised foundation models which can underpin powerful task-specific artificial intelligence models. Histopathology foundation models show great promise across many tasks,…

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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…

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Foundation models pretrained on large-scale histopathology data have found great success in various fields of computational pathology, but their impact on regressive biomarker prediction remains underexplored. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Alexander Blezinger , Wolfgang Nejdl , Ming Tang

The Vision Foundation Model has recently gained attention in medical image analysis. Its zero-shot learning capabilities accelerate AI deployment and enhance the generalizability of clinical applications. However, segmenting pathological…

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Recent studies in pathology foundation models have shown that scaling training data, diversifying cancer types, and increasing model size consistently improve their performance. However, giga-scale foundation models, which are trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yesung Cho , Sungmin Lee , Geongyu Lee , Minkyung Lee , Jongbae Park , Dongmyung Shin

The expanding ecosystem of pathology foundation models has produced powerful but fragmented tile-level representations, limiting their use in clinical tasks that require unified slide-level reasoning and interpretable linkage to clinically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianyang Wang , Ziyu Su , Abdul Rehman Akbar , Usama Sajjad , Lina Gokhale , Charles Rabolli , Wei Chen , Anil Parwani , Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi

Foundation models are pretrained on large-scale corpora to learn generalizable patterns across domains and tasks -- such as contours, textures, and edges in images, or tokens and sentences in text. In contrast, discovering such generalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zehong Wang , Zheyuan Zhang , Tianyi Ma , Nitesh V Chawla , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Comprehensive semantic segmentation on renal pathological images is challenging due to the heterogeneous scales of the objects. For example, on a whole slide image (WSI), the cross-sectional areas of glomeruli can be 64 times larger than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Can Cui , Tianyuan Yao , Jun Long , Zuhayr Asad , R. Michael Womick , Zheyu Zhu , Agnes B. Fogo , Shilin Zhao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Pathology, the microscopic examination of diseased tissue, is critical for diagnosing various medical conditions, particularly cancers. Traditional methods are labor-intensive and prone to human error. Digital pathology, which converts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Dmitry Nechaev , Alexey Pchelnikov , Ekaterina Ivanova

Foundation models in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming medical imaging by enabling general-purpose feature learning from large-scale, unlabeled datasets. In this work, we introduce BrainFound, a self-supervised foundation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Moona Mazher , Geoff J. M. Parker , Daniel C. Alexander

Radiological analysis increasingly benefits from pretrained visual representations that can support heterogeneous downstream tasks across imaging modalities. In this work, we introduce OmniRad, a self-supervised radiological foundation…

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An increasing number of public datasets have shown a marked impact on automated organ segmentation and tumor detection. However, due to the small size and partially labeled problem of each dataset, as well as a limited investigation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Jie Liu , Yixiao Zhang , Jie-Neng Chen , Junfei Xiao , Yongyi Lu , Bennett A. Landman , Yixuan Yuan , Alan Yuille , Yucheng Tang , Zongwei Zhou

Recently, several studies have reported on the fine-tuning of foundation models for image-text modeling in the field of medicine, utilizing images from online data sources such as Twitter and PubMed. Foundation models are large, deep…

The rapid generation of whole-slide images (WSIs) in dermatopathology necessitates automated methods for efficient processing and accurate classification. This study evaluates the performance of two foundation models, UNI and Virchow2, as…

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Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly foundation models (FMs), have revolutionized medical image analysis, demonstrating strong zero- and few-shot performance across diverse medical imaging tasks, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Praveenbalaji Rajendran , Mojtaba Safari , Wenfeng He , Mingzhe Hu , Shansong Wang , Jun Zhou , Xiaofeng Yang

Foundation models refer to artificial intelligence (AI) models that are trained on massive amounts of data and demonstrate broad generalizability across various tasks with high accuracy. These models offer versatile, one-for-many or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Rina Bao , Erfan Darzi , Sheng He , Chuan-Heng Hsiao , Mohammad Arafat Hussain , Jingpeng Li , Atle Bjornerud , Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

The abundance of information present in Whole Slide Images (WSIs) renders them an essential tool for survival analysis. Several Multiple Instance Learning frameworks proposed for this task utilize a ResNet50 backbone pre-trained on natural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Kleanthis Marios Papadopoulos , Tania Stathaki

Musculoskeletal disorders represent a significant global health burden and are a leading cause of disability worldwide. While MRI is essential for accurate diagnosis, its interpretation remains exceptionally challenging. Radiologists must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tian Lan , Lei Xu , Zimu Yuan , Shanggui Liu , Jiajun Liu , Jiaxin Liu , Weilai Xiang , Hongyu Yang , Dong Jiang , Jianxin Yin , Dingyu Wang

Understanding the biological mechanisms of disease is crucial for medicine, and in particular, for drug discovery. AI-powered analysis of genome-scale biological data holds great potential in this regard. The increasing availability of…

Histopathology foundation models (HFMs), pretrained on large-scale cancer datasets, have advanced computational pathology. However, their applicability to non-cancerous chronic kidney disease remains underexplored, despite coexistence of…