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The process of digitising histology slides involves multiple factors that can affect a whole slide image's (WSI) final appearance, including the staining protocol, scanner, and tissue type. This variability constitutes a domain shift and…

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Tumor spatial heterogeneity analysis requires precise correlation between Hematoxylin and Eosin H&E morphology and immunohistochemical (IHC) biomarker expression, yet current methods suffer from spatial misalignment in consecutive sections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yizhe Yuan , Bingsen Xue , Bangzheng Pu , Chengxiang Wang , Cheng Jin

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

Performance of deep learning algorithms decreases drastically if the data distributions of the training and testing sets are different. Due to variations in staining protocols, reagent brands, and habits of technicians, color variation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Abhijeet Patil , Mohd. Talha , Aniket Bhatia , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Sammed Mangale , Sunil Patel , Amit Sethi

Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) enables rapid, high-contrast optical sectioning of fresh tissue without staining or physical sectioning, making it promising for intraoperative and point-of-care diagnostics. Recent foundation and…

Histopathological diagnoses of tumors in tissue biopsy after Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining is the gold standard for oncology care. H&E staining is slow and uses dyes, reagents and precious tissue samples that cannot be reused.…

Histological staining is the gold standard for tissue examination in clinical pathology and life-science research, which visualizes the tissue and cellular structures using chromatic dyes or fluorescence labels to aid the microscopic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Bijie Bai , Xilin Yang , Yuzhu Li , Yijie Zhang , Nir Pillar , Aydogan Ozcan

Accurate and fast histological staining is crucial in histopathology, impacting diagnostic precision and reliability. Traditional staining methods are time-consuming and subjective, causing delays in diagnosis. Digital pathology plays a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Marian Boktor , James E. D. Tweel , Benjamin R. Ecclestone , Jennifer Ai Ye , Paul Fieguth , Parsin Haji Reza

Diffusion models achieve strong generation quality, diversity, and distribution coverage, but their performance often comes with expensive inference. In this work, we propose Stochastic Transition-Map Distillation (STMD), a teacher-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 George Rapakoulias , Peter Garud , Lingjiong Zhu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Foundation models trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale histological images have significantly accelerated the development of computational pathology. These models can serve as backbones for region-of-interest (ROI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiawen Li , Jiali Hu , Xitong Ling , Yongqiang Lv , Yuxuan Chen , Yizhi Wang , Tian Guan , Yifei Liu , Yonghong He

It is a critical task to evalaute HER2 expression level accurately for breast cancer evaluation and targeted treatment therapy selection. However, the standard multi-step Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining is resource-intensive, expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Peide Zhu , Linbin Lu , Zhiqin Chen , Xiong Chen

Many medical and biological protocols for analyzing individual biological cells involve morphological evaluation based on cell staining, designed to enhance imaging contrast and enable clinicians and biologists to differentiate between…

Expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is an important biomarker in breast cancer patients who can benefit from cost-effective automatic Hematoxylin and Eosin (H\&E) HER2 scoring. However, developing such scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Rawan S. Abdulsadig , Bryan M. Williams , Nikolay Burlutskiy

Three-dimensional X-ray histology techniques offer a non-invasive alternative to conventional 2D histology, enabling volumetric imaging of biological tissues without the need for physical sectioning or chemical staining. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Sarah C. Irvine , Christian Lucas , Diana Krüger , Bianca Guedert , Julian Moosmann , Berit Zeller-Plumhoff

Unsupervised and unpaired domain translation using generative adversarial neural networks, and more precisely CycleGAN, is state of the art for the stain translation of histopathology images. It often, however, suffers from the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Nicolas Brieu , Felix J. Segerer , Ansh Kapil , Philipp Wortmann , Guenter Schmidt

Generating realistic synthetic microscopy images is critical for training deep learning models in label-scarce environments, such as cell counting with many cells per image. However, traditional domain adaptation methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohammad Dehghanmanshadi , Wallapak Tavanapong

Histopathology tissue samples are widely available in two states: paraffin-embedded unstained and non-paraffin-embedded stained whole slide RGB images (WSRI). Hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is one of the principal stains in histology but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Aman Rana , Gregory Yauney , Alarice Lowe , Pratik Shah

Precise segmentation and classification of cell instances are vital for analyzing the tissue microenvironment in histology images, supporting medical diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning, and studies of brain cytoarchitecture. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Valentina Vadori , Jean-Marie Graïc , Antonella Peruffo , Livio Finos , Ujwala Kiran Chaudhari , Enrico Grisan

This study evaluates the generalisation capabilities of state-of-the-art histopathology foundation models on out-of-distribution multi-stain autoimmune Immunohistochemistry datasets. We compare 13 feature extractor models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Amaya Gallagher-Syed , Elena Pontarini , Myles J. Lewis , Michael R. Barnes , Gregory Slabaugh

In recent years, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in high-fidelity image synthesis. However, fine-tuning these models for specialized domains, such as medical imaging, remains challenging due to limited domain-specific…

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