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With the rapid development of computational pathology, many AI-assisted diagnostic tasks have emerged. Cellular nuclei segmentation can segment various types of cells for downstream analysis, but it relies on predefined categories and lacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Chunlin Zhong , Shuang Hao , Junhua Wu , Xiaona Chang , Jiwei Jiang , Xiu Nie , He Tang , Xiang Bai

A single biomedical image can be meaningfully segmented in multiple ways, depending on the desired application. For instance, a brain MRI can be segmented according to tissue types, vascular territories, broad anatomical regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Marianne Rakic , Siyu Gai , Etienne Chollet , John V. Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis, yet current deep learning methods often demand extensive expert effort, i.e., either through annotating large training datasets or providing prompts at inference time for each new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xingjian Li , Qifeng Wu , Adithya S. Ubaradka , Yiran Ding , Colleen Que , Runmin Jiang , Jianhua Xing , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a crucial role in cancer progression and treatment response, yet current methods for its comprehensive analysis in H&E-stained tissue slides face significant limitations in the diversity of tissue cell…

Nucleus segmentation is an important analysis task in digital pathology. However, methods for automatic segmentation often struggle with new data from a different distribution, requiring users to manually annotate nuclei and retrain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Titus Griebel , Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Parotid gland lesion segmentation is essential for the treatment of parotid gland diseases. However, due to the variable size and complex lesion boundaries, accurate parotid gland lesion segmentation remains challenging. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhongyuan Wu , Chuan-Xian Ren , Yu Wang , Xiaohua Ban , Jianning Xiao , Xiaohui Duan

Medical image analysis is critical yet challenged by the need of jointly segmenting organs or tissues, and numerous instances for anatomical structures and tumor microenvironment analysis. Existing studies typically formulated different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qing Xu , Yuxiang Luo , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful molecular imaging tool that plays a crucial role in modern medical diagnostics by visualizing radio-tracer distribution to reveal physiological processes. Accurate organ segmentation from PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Wenbo Zhang , Lanlan Li , Yuchen Liu , Chen Jiang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Medical image segmentation is a critical component in clinical practice, facilitating accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, existing methods, often tailored to specific modalities or disease types, lack…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Jun Ma , Yuting He , Feifei Li , Lin Han , Chenyu You , Bo Wang

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

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis, yet existing models are limited by their reliance on explicit human instructions and lack the active reasoning capabilities to understand complex clinical questions. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yu Huang , Zelin Peng , Yichen Zhao , Piao Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Joohyeok Kim , Sangmin Lee

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathologies is inherently ambiguous. For instance, structure borders may not be clearly visible or different experts may have different styles of annotating. The majority of current state-of-the-art…

Due to the inherent flexibility of prompting, foundation models have emerged as the predominant force in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. The recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) signifies a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen , Rushi Jiao

Tumor segmentation stands as a pivotal task in cancer diagnosis. Given the immense dimensions of whole slide images (WSI) in histology, deep learning approaches for WSI classification mainly operate at patch-wise or superpixel-wise level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Huaqian Wu , Clara Brémond-Martin , Kévin Bouaou , Cédric Clouchoux

Is Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) capable in segmenting Any Pathology Images? Digital pathology segmentation spans tissue-level and nuclei-level scales, where traditional methods often suffer from high annotation costs and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qiuyu Kong , Shakiba Sharifi , Yiming Wang , Marco Cristani , Zanxi Ruan

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

The automated segmentation of cancer tissue in histopathology images can help clinicians to detect, diagnose, and analyze such disease. Different from other natural images used in many convolutional networks for benchmark, histopathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Juan P. Vigueras-Guillén , Joan Lasenby , Frank Seeliger

Tumor segmentation in whole-slide images of histology slides is an important step towards computer-assisted diagnosis. In this work, we propose a tumor segmentation framework based on the novel concept of persistent homology profiles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Talha Qaiser , Yee-Wah Tsang , Daiki Taniyama , Naoya Sakamoto , Kazuaki Nakane , David Epstein , Nasir Rajpoot

Tumor segmentation plays a critical role in histopathology, but it requires costly, fine-grained image-mask pairs annotated by pathologists. Thus, synthesizing histopathology data to expand the dataset is highly desirable. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Evi M. C. Huijben , Mark Schuiveling , Ruisheng Su , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta