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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

The combination of data analysis methods, increasing computing capacity, and improved sensors enable quantitative granular, multi-scale, cell-based analyses. We describe the rich set of application challenges related to tissue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Rajarsi Gupta , Jakub Kaczmarzyk , Soma Kobayashi , Tahsin Kurc , Joel Saltz

The use of self-supervised learning (SSL) to train pathology foundation models has increased substantially in the past few years. Notably, several models trained on large quantities of clinical data have been made publicly available in…

Accurate analysis of histopathological images is critical for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Whole-slide images (WSIs), which digitize tissue specimens at gigapixel resolution, are fundamental to this process but require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Enhui Chai , Sicheng Chen , Tianyi Zhang , Chad Wong , Kecheng Huang , Zeyu Liu , Fei Xia

In digital pathology, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often difficult to handle due to their gigapixel scale, so most approaches train patch encoders via self-supervised learning (SSL) and then aggregate the patch-level embeddings via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Myeongjang Pyeon , Janghyeon Lee , Minsoo Lee , Juseung Yun , Hwanil Choi , Jonghyun Kim , Jiwon Kim , Yi Hu , Jongseong Jang , Soonyoung Lee

Diagnosing a whole-slide image is an interactive, multi-stage process of changing magnification and moving between fields. Although recent pathology foundation models demonstrated superior performances, practical agentic systems that decide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sheng Wang , Ruiming Wu , Charles Herndon , Yihang Liu , Shunsuke Koga , Jeanne Shen , Zhi Huang

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide and pathologists are closely involved in establishing a diagnosis. Tools to assist in making a diagnosis are required to manage the increasing workload. In this context,…

Cell detection is a fundamental task in computational pathology that can be used for extracting high-level medical information from whole-slide images. For accurate cell detection, pathologists often zoom out to understand the tissue-level…

There exist numerous diagnostic tasks in pathology. Conventional computational pathology formulates and tackles them as independent and individual image classification problems, thereby resulting in computational inefficiency and high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Anh Tien Nguyen , Keunho Byeon , Kyungeun Kim , Boram Song , Seoung Wan Chae , Jin Tae Kwak

Domain shift is a critical problem for pathology AI as pathology data is heavily influenced by center-specific conditions. Current pathology domain adaptation methods focus on image patches rather than WSI, thus failing to capture global…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Ario Sadafi , Xin You , Katharina Breininger , Nassir Navab , Peter J. Schüffler

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

Purpose. To present SPINEPS, an open-source deep learning approach for semantic and instance segmentation of 14 spinal structures (ten vertebra substructures, intervertebral discs, spinal cord, spinal canal, and sacrum) in whole body T2w…

The field of computational pathology has been transformed with recent advances in foundation models that encode histopathology region-of-interests (ROIs) into versatile and transferable feature representations via self-supervised learning…

Due to the increasing workload of pathologists, the need for automation to support diagnostic tasks and quantitative biomarker evaluation is becoming more and more apparent. Foundation models have the potential to improve generalizability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Till Nicke , Jan Raphael Schaefer , Henning Hoefener , Friedrich Feuerhake , Dorit Merhof , Fabian Kiessling , Johannes Lotz

Semantic segmentations of pathological entities have crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have been recently proposed for universal use in segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Jingwei Zhang , Ke Ma , Saarthak Kapse , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Prateek Prasanna , Dimitris Samaras

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

Accurate semantic segmentation for histopathology image is crucial for quantitative tissue analysis and downstream clinical modeling. Recent segmentation foundation models have improved generalization through large-scale pretraining, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Peixian Liang , Songhao Li , Shunsuke Koga , Yutong Li , Zahra Alipour , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Zhi Huang

Foundation models are reshaping computational pathology by enabling transfer learning, where models pre-trained on vast datasets can be adapted for downstream diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic response tasks. Despite these advances,…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can potentially support histopathologists in the diagnosis of a broad spectrum of cancer types. In colorectal cancer (CRC), AI can alleviate the laborious task of characterization and reporting on resected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 John-Melle Bokhorst , Iris D. Nagtegaal , Filippo Fraggetta , Simona Vatrano , Wilma Mesker , Michael Vieth , Jeroen van der Laak , Francesco Ciompi

Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that automatically extract information from digital histology images have shown great promise for improving pathological diagnosis. Prior to routine use, it is important to evaluate their predictive…