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Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are clinically relevant indicators of abnormal cell division, yet their reliable detection remains challenging due to morphological ambiguity and scanner variability. In this work, we investigated three…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Biwen Meng , Xi Long , Jingxin Liu

Recognition of mitotic figures in histologic tumor specimens is highly relevant to patient outcome assessment. This task is challenging for algorithms and human experts alike, with deterioration of algorithmic performance under shifts in…

Counting mitotic figures is time-intensive for pathologists and leads to inter-observer variability. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises a solution by automatically detecting mitotic figures while maintaining decision consistency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Seungho Choe , Xiaoli Qin , Abubakr Shafique , Amanda Dy , Susan Done , Dimitrios Androutsos , April Khademi

Brain tumor detection can make the difference between life and death. Recently, deep learning-based brain tumor detection techniques have gained attention due to their higher performance. However, obtaining the expected performance of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Wessam M. Salama , Ahmed Shokry

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale pathology datasets have shown promising results across various diagnostic tasks. Here, we present a systematic evaluation of transfer learning strategies for brain tumor classification using these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Ken Enda , Yoshitaka Oda , Zen-ichi Tanei , Kenichi Satoh , Hiroaki Motegi , Terasaka Shunsuke , Shigeru Yamaguchi , Takahiro Ogawa , Wang Lei , Masumi Tsuda , Shinya Tanaka

Mitotic figure count is an important marker of tumor proliferation and has been shown to be associated with patients' prognosis. Deep learning based mitotic figure detection methods have been utilized to automatically locate the cell in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jingtang Liang , Cheng Wang , Yujie Cheng , Zheng Wang , Fang Wang , Liyu Huang , Zhibin Yu , Yubo Wang

The proliferative activity of breast tumors, which is routinely estimated by counting of mitotic figures in hematoxylin and eosin stained histology sections, is considered to be one of the most important prognostic markers. However, mitosis…

Counting of mitotic figures is a fundamental step in grading and prognostication of several cancers. However, manual mitosis counting is tedious and time-consuming. In addition, variation in the appearance of mitotic figures causes a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mostafa Jahanifar , Adam Shephard , Neda Zamanitajeddin , Simon Graham , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Fayyaz Minhas , Nasir Rajpoot

Purpose: To determine whether deep learning models can distinguish between breast cancer molecular subtypes based on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). Materials and methods: In this institutional review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Zhe Zhu , Ehab Albadawy , Ashirbani Saha , Jun Zhang , Michael R. Harowicz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with over two million new cases each year. During diagnostic tumour grading, pathologists manually count the number of dividing cells (mitotic figures) in biopsy or tumour…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Jack Breen , Kieran Zucker , Nicolas M. Orsi , Nishant Ravikumar

Melanoma brain metastases (MBM) are common and spatially heterogeneous lesions, complicating cohort-level analyses due to anatomical variability and differing MRI protocols. We propose a fully differentiable, deep-learning-based deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nanna E. Wielenberg , Ilinca Popp , Oliver Blanck , Lucas Zander , Jan C. Peeken , Stephanie E. Combs , Anca-Ligia Grosu , Dimos Baltas , Tobias Fechter

Deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis has achieved unprecedented performance in breast cancer detection. However, most approaches are computationally intensive, which impedes their broader dissemination in real-world applications. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Jiaqiao Shi , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning

Studies estimate that there will be 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,920 breast cancer induced deaths in the year of 2018 alone. Despite the pervasiveness of this affliction, the current process to obtain an accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Siddhant Rao

The MIDOG 2025 challenge extends prior work on mitotic figure detection by introducing a new Track 2 on atypical mitosis classification. This task aims to distinguish normal from atypical mitotic figures in histopathology images, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Leire Benito-Del-Valle , Pedro A. Moreno-Sánchez , Itziar Egusquiza , Itsaso Vitoria , Artzai Picón , Cristina López-Saratxaga , Adrian Galdran

This report details our submission to the Mitotic Domain Generalization (MIDOG) 2025 challenge, which addresses the critical task of mitotic figure detection in histopathology for cancer prognostication. Following the "Bitter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Zhuoyan Shen , Esther Bär , Maria Hawkins , Konstantin Bräutigam , Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete

The account of mitotic cells is a key feature in tumor diagnosis. However, due to the variability of mitotic cell morphology, it is a highly challenging task to detect mitotic cells in tumor tissues. At the same time, although advanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Chen Yang , Wang Ziyue , Fang Zijie , Bian Hao , Zhang Yongbing

Automated detection and classification of mitotic figures especially distinguishing atypical from normal remain critical challenges in computational pathology. We present MitoDetect++, a unified deep learning pipeline designed for the MIDOG…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Esha Sadia Nasir , Jiaqi Lv , Mostafa Jahanifar , Shan E Ahmed Raza

For histopathological tumor assessment, the count of mitotic figures per area is an important part of prognostication. Algorithmic approaches - such as for mitotic figure identification - have significantly improved in recent times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Marc Aubreville , Christof A. Bertram , Samir Jabari , Christian Marzahl , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

The detection of mitotic figures from different scanners/sites remains an important topic of research, owing to its potential in assisting clinicians with tumour grading. The MItosis DOmain Generalization (MIDOG) challenge aims to test the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Mostafa Jahanifar , Adam Shephard , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , R. M. Saad Bashir , Mohsin Bilal , Syed Ali Khurram , Fayyaz Minhas , Nasir Rajpoot

Automated detection of mitotic figures in histopathology images has seen vast improvements, thanks to modern deep learning-based pipelines. Application of these methods, however, is in practice limited by strong variability of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Marc Aubreville , Christof Bertram , Mitko Veta , Robert Klopfleisch , Nikolas Stathonikos , Katharina Breininger , Natalie ter Hoeve , Francesco Ciompi , Andreas Maier