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We present a novel weakly-supervised framework for classifying whole slide images (WSIs). WSIs, due to their gigapixel resolution, are commonly processed by patch-wise classification with patch-level labels. However, patch-level labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Tiange Xiang , Yang Song , Chaoyi Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Mei Chen , Fan Zhang , Heng Huang , Lauren O'Donnell , Weidong Cai

Annotating datasets for question answering (QA) tasks is very costly, as it requires intensive manual labor and often domain-specific knowledge. Yet strategies for annotating QA datasets in a cost-effective manner are scarce. To provide a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Bernhard Kratzwald , Xiang Yue , Huan Sun , Stefan Feuerriegel

Poor performance of quantitative analysis in histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSI) has been a significant obstacle in clinical practice. Annotating large-scale WSIs manually is a demanding and time-consuming task, unlikely to yield the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sarah Cechnicka , James Ball , Hadrien Reynaud , Callum Arthurs , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

In computational pathology, deep learning (DL) models for tasks such as segmentation or tissue classification are known to suffer from domain shifts due to different staining techniques. Stain adaptation aims to reduce the generalization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Daniel Reisenbüchler , Lucas Luttner , Nadine S. Schaadt , Friedrich Feuerhake , Dorit Merhof

Computational pathology involves the digitization of stained tissues into whole-slide images (WSIs) that contain billions of pixels arranged as contiguous patches. Statistical analysis of WSIs largely focuses on classification via multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 So Won Jeong , Veronika Ročková

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

Nucleus instance segmentation from histopathology images suffers from the extremely laborious and expert-dependent annotation of nucleus instances. As a promising solution to this task, annotation-efficient deep learning paradigms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ming , Zihao Wu , Jie Yang , Danyi Li , Yuan Gao , Changxin Gao , Gui-Song Xia , Yuanqing Li , Li Liang , Jin-Gang Yu

High-quality labeled datasets are essential for deep learning. Traditional manual annotation methods are not only costly and inefficient but also pose challenges in specialized domains where expert knowledge is needed. Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Zhaocong liu , Fa Zhang , Lin Cheng , Huanxi Deng , Xiaoyan Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Chichun Zhou

Lifelong learning for whole slide images (WSIs) poses the challenge of training a unified model to perform multiple WSI-related tasks, such as cancer subtyping and tumor classification, in a distributed, continual fashion. This is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Doanh C. Bui , Hoai Luan Pham , Vu Trung Duong Le , Tuan Hai Vu , Van Duy Tran , Yasuhiko Nakashima

We provide in this paper a comprehensive comparison of various transfer learning strategies and deep learning architectures for computer-aided classification of adult-type diffuse gliomas. We evaluate the generalizability of out-of-domain…

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Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ye Yuan , Can Chen , Zixuan Liu , Willie Neiswanger , Xue Liu

Whole slide pathology image classification presents challenges due to gigapixel image sizes and limited annotation labels, hindering model generalization. This paper introduces a prompt learning method to adapt large vision-language models…

Whole slide image (WSI) analysis has become increasingly important in the medical imaging community, enabling automated and objective diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic-response prediction. However, in clinical practice, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yanyan Huang , Weiqin Zhao , Shujun Wang , Yu Fu , Yuming Jiang , Lequan Yu

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

Accurate annotation of fixation type is a critical step in slide preparation for pathology laboratories. However, this manual process is prone to errors, impacting downstream analyses and diagnostic accuracy. Existing methods for verifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Oskar Thaeter , Tanja Niedermair , Jan E. G. Albin , Johannes Raffler , Ralf Huss , Peter J. Schüffler

Interactive segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated remarkable generalization on natural images, but they perform suboptimally on remote sensing imagery (RSI) due to severe domain shifts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 M. Naseer Subhani

In recent years, the availability of digitized Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has enabled the use of deep learning-based computer vision techniques for automated disease diagnosis. However, WSIs present unique computational and algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Yash Sharma , Aman Shrivastava , Lubaina Ehsan , Christopher A. Moskaluk , Sana Syed , Donald E. Brown

Within medical imaging, manual curation of sufficient well-labeled samples is cost, time and scale-prohibitive. To improve the representativeness of the training dataset, for the first time, we present an approach to utilize large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Fernando Navarro , Sailesh Conjeti , Federico Tombari , Nassir Navab

Class activation maps (CAMs) are commonly employed in weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) to produce pseudo-labels. Due to incomplete or excessive class activation, existing studies often resort to offline CAM refinement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xinyu Yang , Hossein Rahmani , Sue Black , Bryan M. Williams

We present a novel diffusion-based approach to generate synthetic histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSIs) at an unprecedented gigapixel scale. Synthetic WSIs have many potential applications: They can augment training datasets to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Robert Harb , Thomas Pock , Heimo Müller