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Automated pathology report generation from Whole Slide Images (WSIs) faces two key challenges: (1) lack of semantic content in visual features and (2) inherent information redundancy in WSIs. To address these issues, we propose a novel…

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Accurate tumor detection in digital pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has emerged as a widely used approach for weakly-supervised tumor detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Marina D'Amato , Jeroen van der Laak , Francesco Ciompi

Computational pathology (CPath) digitizes pathology slides into whole slide images (WSIs), enabling analysis for critical healthcare tasks such as cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, WSIs possess extremely long sequence lengths (up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Wenhao Tang , Heng Fang , Ge Wu , Xiang Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Microsatellite instability (MSI) is associated with several tumor types and its status has become increasingly vital in guiding patient treatment decisions. However, in clinical practice, distinguishing MSI from its counterpart is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-08 Jin Zhu , Wangwei Wu , Yuting Zhang , Shiyun Lin , Yukang Jiang , Ruixian Liu , Xueqin Wang

In pre-clinical pathology, there is a paradox between the abundance of raw data (whole slide images from many organs of many individual animals) and the lack of pixel-level slide annotations done by pathologists. Due to time constraints and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Marco Bertolini , Van-Khoa Le , Jake Pencharz , Andreas Poehlmann , Djork-Arné Clevert , Santiago Villalba , Floriane Montanari

Existing WSI analysis methods lie on the consensus that histopathological characteristics of tumors are significant guidance for cancer diagnostics. Particularly, as the evolution of cancers is a continuous process, the correlations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Tong Shu , Jun Shi , Dongdong Sun , Zhiguo Jiang , Yushan Zheng

Whole-slide image (WSI) preprocessing, comprising tissue detection followed by patch extraction, is foundational to AI-driven computational pathology but remains a major bottleneck for scaling to large and heterogeneous cohorts. We present…

Although CNNs are widely considered as the state-of-the-art models in various applications of image analysis, one of the main challenges still open is the training of a CNN on high resolution images. Different strategies have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Nadia Brancati , Giuseppe De Pietro , Daniel Riccio , Maria Frucci

Generating diagnostic text from histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is challenging due to the gigapixel scale of the input and the requirement for precise, domain specific language. We propose a hierarchical vision language framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ahmet Halici , Ece Tugba Cebeci , Musa Balci , Mustafa Cini , Serkan Sokmen

Histopathology images; microscopy images of stained tissue biopsies contain fundamental prognostic information that forms the foundation of pathological analysis and diagnostic medicine. However, diagnostics from histopathology images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Aïcha BenTaieb , Ghassan Hamarneh

In many histopathology tasks, sample classification depends on morphological details in tissue or single cells that are only visible at the highest magnification. For a pathologist, this implies tedious zooming in and out, while for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Ario Sadafi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

Breast cancer survival prediction in computational pathology presents a remarkable challenge due to tumor heterogeneity. For instance, different regions of the same tumor in the pathology image can show distinct morphological and molecular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yang Luo , Shiru Wang , Jun Liu , Jiaxuan Xiao , Rundong Xue , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Zhang , Yu Lu , Yang Zhao , Yutong Xie

In histopathology, tissue samples are often larger than a standard microscope slide, making stitching of multiple fragments necessary to process entire structures such as tumors. Automated stitching is a prerequisite for scaling analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Stefan Brandstätter , Maximilian Köller , Philipp Seeböck , Alissa Blessing , Felicitas Oberndorfer , Svitlana Pochepnia , Helmut Prosch , Georg Langs

Learning high-quality, self-supervised, visual representations is essential to advance the role of computer vision in biomedical microscopy and clinical medicine. Previous work has focused on self-supervised representation learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Cheng Jiang , Xinhai Hou , Akhil Kondepudi , Asadur Chowdury , Christian W. Freudiger , Daniel A. Orringer , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon

Annotating histopathological images is a time-consuming andlabor-intensive process, which requires broad-certificated pathologistscarefully examining large-scale whole-slide images from cells to tissues.Recent frontiers of transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Dou Xu , Chang Cai , Chaowei Fang , Bin Kong , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li

Cancer diagnosis has greatly benefited from the integration of whole-slide images (WSIs) with multiple instance learning (MIL), enabling high-resolution analysis of tissue morphology. Graph-based MIL (GNN-MIL) approaches have emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jongwoo Kim , Bryan Wong , Huazhu Fu , Willmer Rafell Quiñones , Youngsin Ko , Mun Yong Yi

Histopathologists establish cancer grade by assessing histological structures, such as glands in prostate cancer. Yet, digital pathology pipelines often rely on grid-based tiling that ignores tissue architecture. This introduces irrelevant…

Delineation of cancerous regions in gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is a crucial diagnostic procedure in digital pathology. This process is time-consuming because of the large search space in the gigapixel WSIs, causing chances of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Hsien-Tzu Cheng , Chun-Fu Yeh , Po-Chen Kuo , Andy Wei , Keng-Chi Liu , Mong-Chi Ko , Kuan-Hua Chao , Yu-Ching Peng , Tyng-Luh Liu

Modern histopathological image analysis relies on the segmentation of cell structures to derive quantitative metrics required in biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. State-of-the-art deep learning approaches predominantly apply…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Yoav Alon , Huiyu Zhou

Histopathology plays a critical role in medical diagnostics, with whole slide images (WSIs) offering valuable insights that directly influence clinical decision-making. However, the large size and complexity of WSIs may pose significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhongwei Qiu , Hanqing Chao , Tiancheng Lin , Wanxing Chang , Zijiang Yang , Wenpei Jiao , Yixuan Shen , Yunshuo Zhang , Yelin Yang , Wenbin Liu , Hui Jiang , Yun Bian , Ke Yan , Dakai Jin , Le Lu