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A key issue in critical contexts such as medical diagnosis is the interpretability of the deep learning models adopted in decision-making systems. Research in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is trying to solve this issue. However,…

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Survival prediction is a complex ordinal regression task that aims to predict the survival coefficient ranking among a cohort of patients, typically achieved by analyzing patients' whole slide images. Existing deep learning approaches…

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Whole slide images (WSIs) enable weakly supervised prognostic modeling via multiple instance learning (MIL). Spatial transcriptomics (ST) preserves in situ gene expression, providing a spatial molecular context that complements morphology.…

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In the clinic, resected tissue samples are stained with Hematoxylin-and-Eosin (H&E) and/or Immunhistochemistry (IHC) stains and presented to the pathologists on glass slides or as digital scans for diagnosis and assessment of disease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Parmida Ghahremani , Joseph Marino , Ricardo Dodds , Saad Nadeem

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…

The multimodal model has demonstrated promise in histopathology. However, most multimodal models are based on H\&E and genomics, adopting increasingly complex yet black-box designs. In our paper, we propose a novel interpretable multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jun Wang , Yu Mao , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

This review paper provides an integrated perspective of Explainable Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to Brain-Computer Interfaces. BCIs use predictive models to interpret brain signals for various high-stake applications. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Param Rajpura , Hubert Cecotti , Yogesh Kumar Meena

The rapid digitization of histopathology slides has opened up new possibilities for computational tools in clinical and research workflows. Among these, content-based slide retrieval stands out, enabling pathologists to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hongyi Wang , Zhengjie Zhu , Jiabo Ma , Fang Wang , Yue Shi , Bo Luo , Jili Wang , Qiuyu Cai , Xiuming Zhang , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin , Hao Chen

In the present paper we present the potential of Explainable Artificial Intelligence methods for decision-support in medical image analysis scenarios. With three types of explainable methods applied to the same medical image data set our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Samanta Knapič , Avleen Malhi , Rohit Saluja , Kary Främling

In whole slide imaging, commonly used staining techniques based on hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains accentuate different aspects of the tissue landscape. In the case of detecting metastases, IHC provides a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Joseph Boyd , Irène Villa , Marie-Christine Mathieu , Eric Deutsch , Nikos Paragios , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis

Explainability is critical for the clinical adoption of medical visual question answering (VQA) systems, as physicians require transparent reasoning to trust AI-generated diagnoses. We present MedXplain-VQA, a comprehensive framework…

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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) plays an indispensable role in demystifying the decision-making processes of AI, especially within the healthcare industry. Clinicians rely heavily on detailed reasoning when making a diagnosis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Anna Stubbin , Thompson Chyrikov , Jim Zhao , Christina Chajo

Analyzing whole-slide images (WSIs) requires an iterative, evidence-driven reasoning process that parallels how pathologists dynamically zoom, refocus, and self-correct while collecting the evidence. However, existing computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jingyun Chen , Linghan Cai , Zhikang Wang , Yi Huang , Songhan Jiang , Shenjin Huang , Hongpeng Wang , Yongbing Zhang

Advancing AI in computational pathology requires large, high-quality, and diverse datasets, yet existing public datasets are often limited in organ diversity, class coverage, or annotation quality. To bridge this gap, we introduce SPIDER…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Dmitry Nechaev , Alexey Pchelnikov , Ekaterina Ivanova

Engineered image-based biomarkers offer a clinically interpretable alternative to black-box AI in computational pathology, yet their discovery remains largely intuition-driven, guided by fragmented literature rather than rigorous biological…

The development of computational pathology lies in the consensus that pathological characteristics of tumors are significant guidance for cancer diagnostics. Most existing research focuses on the inner-contextual information within each WSI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jun Shi , Tong Shu , Zhiguo Jiang , Wei Wang , Haibo Wu , Yushan Zheng

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of an interpretable and semiautomatic approach to stage grading ocular pathologies such as Diabetic retinopathy, Hypertensive retinopathy, and other retinopathies on the backdrop of major…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Ayushi Raj Bhatt , Rajkumar Vaghashiya , Meghna Kulkarni , Dr Prakash Kamaraj

Whole slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology (CPath) pose a major computational challenge due to their gigapixel scale, often requiring the processing of tens to hundreds of thousands of high-resolution patches per slide. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yonghan Shin , SeungKyu Kim , Won-Ki Jeong

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

Histopathology relies on the analysis of microscopic tissue images to diagnose disease. A crucial part of tissue preparation is staining whereby a dye is used to make the salient tissue components more distinguishable. However, differences…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Haseeb Nazki , Ognjen Arandjelović , InHwa Um , David Harrison