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Microscopic assessment of histopathology images is vital for accurate cancer diagnosis and treatment. Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification and captioning have become crucial tasks in computer-aided pathology. However, microscopic WSI face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 S M Taslim Uddin Raju , Md. Milon Islam , Md Rezwanul Haque , Hamdi Altaheri , Fakhri Karray

Diagnosing medical conditions from histopathology data requires a thorough analysis across the various resolutions of Whole Slide Images (WSI). However, existing generative methods fail to consistently represent the hierarchical structure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Sarah Cechnicka , James Ball , Matthew Baugh , Hadrien Reynaud , Naomi Simmonds , Andrew P. T. Smith , Catherine Horsfield , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

Introducing interpretability and reasoning into Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) methods for Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is challenging, given the complexity of gigapixel slides. Traditionally, MIL interpretability is limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Saarthak Kapse , Pushpak Pati , Srijan Das , Jingwei Zhang , Chao Chen , Maria Vakalopoulou , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras , Rajarsi R. Gupta , Prateek Prasanna

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for computational pathology, offering unprecedented opportunities to integrate pathological images with language context for comprehensive diagnostic analysis. These…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Zhe Xu , Ziyi Liu , Junlin Hou , Jiabo Ma , Cheng Jin , Yihui Wang , Zhixuan Chen , Zhengyu Zhang , Fuxiang Huang , Zhengrui Guo , Fengtao Zhou , Yingxue Xu , Xi Wang , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Li Liang , Hao Chen

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare imaging has revolutionized diagnostic medicine and clinical decision-making processes. This work presents an intelligent multimodal framework for medical image analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Samer Al-Hamadani

Whole slide images (WSIs) are massive digital pathology files illustrating intricate tissue structures. Selecting a small, representative subset of patches from each WSI is essential yet challenging. Therefore, following the "Divide &…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Abubakr Shafique , Saghir Alfasly , Areej Alsaafin , Peyman Nejat , Jibran A. Khan , H. R. Tizhoosh

Representation learning from Gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSI) poses a significant challenge in computational pathology due to the complicated nature of tissue structures and the scarcity of labeled data. Multi-instance learning methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Ali Nasiri-Sarvi , Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh , Hassan Rivaz , Mahdi S. Hosseini

Pretraining on large-scale, in-domain datasets grants histopathology foundation models (FM) the ability to learn task-agnostic data representations, enhancing transfer learning on downstream tasks. In computational pathology, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

Seeing clearly with high resolution is a foundation of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), which has been proven to be vital for visual perception and reasoning. Existing works usually employ a straightforward resolution upscaling method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoyou Fu , Xue Wang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin

Clinical document classification is essential for converting unstructured medical texts into standardised ICD-10 diagnoses, yet it faces challenges due to complex medical language, privacy constraints, and limited annotated datasets. Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Akram Mustafa , Usman Naseem , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Developing self-supervised learning (SSL) models that can learn universal and transferable representations of H&E gigapixel whole-slide images (WSIs) is becoming increasingly valuable in computational pathology. These models hold the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Guillaume Jaume , Anurag Vaidya , Andrew Zhang , Andrew H. Song , Richard J. Chen , Sharifa Sahai , Dandan Mo , Emilio Madrigal , Long Phi Le , Faisal Mahmood

Computational pathology holds substantial promise for improving diagnosis and guiding treatment decisions. Recent pathology foundation models enable the extraction of rich patch-level representations from large-scale whole-slide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xiangde Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Yuanfeng Ji , Ruijiang Li

The emergence of foundation models in computational pathology has transformed histopathological image analysis, with whole slide imaging (WSI) diagnosis being a core application. Traditionally, weakly supervised fine-tuning via multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiawen Li , Jiali Hu , Qiehe Sun , Renao Yan , Minxi Ouyang , Tian Guan , Anjia Han , Chao He , Yonghong He

In digital pathology, the multiple instance learning (MIL) strategy is widely used in the weakly supervised histopathology whole slide image (WSI) classification task where giga-pixel WSIs are only labeled at the slide level. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Zhan Shi , Jingwei Zhang , Jun Kong , Fusheng Wang

Whole slide image (WSI) analysis has emerged as an increasingly essential technique in computational pathology. Recent advances in the pathology foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated significant advantages in deriving meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhidong Yang , Xiuhui Shi , Wei Ba , Zhigang Song , Haijing Luan , Taiyuan Hu , Senlin Lin , Jiguang Wang , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Rui Yan

Digital pathology has revolutionized the field by enabling the digitization of tissue samples into whole slide images (WSIs). However, the high resolution and large size of WSIs present significant challenges when it comes to applying Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ali Mammadov , Loïc Le Folgoc , Guillaume Hocquet , Pietro Gori

We demonstrate a simple and effective automated method for the segmentation of glomeruli from large (~1 gigapixel) histopathological whole-slide images (WSIs) of thin renal tissue sections and biopsies, using an adaptation of the well-known…

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Whole Slide Image (WSI) MLLMs are difficult to build and deploy because gigapixel slides induce thousands of visual tokens, while only a small fraction of regions is diagnostically relevant. Existing slide-level pathology MLLMs typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Qingqiao Hu , Weimin Lyu , Meilong Xu , Kehan Qi , Xiaoling Hu , Saumya Gupta , Jiawei Zhou , Chao Chen

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has enabled substantial progress in computational histopathology, where a large amount of patches from gigapixel whole slide images are aggregated into slide-level predictions. Heatmaps are widely used to…

Recent advances in computational pathology have led to the emergence of numerous foundation models. These models typically rely on general-purpose encoders with multi-instance learning for whole slide image (WSI) classification or apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yuxuan Sun , Yixuan Si , Chenglu Zhu , Kai Zhang , Zhongyi Shui , Bowen Ding , Tao Lin , Lin Yang