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Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, necessitating accurate diagnosis and prognosis. Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) has become an integral part of clinical workflows with advancements in digital pathology. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Ahmad Hussein , Mukesh Prasad , Ali Anaissi , Ali Braytee

Automatic integration of whole slide images (WSIs) and gene expression profiles has demonstrated substantial potential in precision clinical diagnosis and cancer progression studies. However, most existing studies focus on individual gene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Junzhuo Liu , Xuemei Du , Daniel Reisenbuchler , Ye Chen , Markus Eckstein , Christian Matek , Friedrich Feuerhake , Dorit Merhof

Early detection of breast cancer is a powerful tool towards decreasing its socioeconomic burden. Although, artificial intelligence (AI) methods have shown remarkable results towards this goal, their "black box" nature hinders their wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Panagiota Karatza , Kalliopi V. Dalakleidi , Maria Athanasiou , Konstantina S. Nikita

Explainable AI (XAI) in medical histopathology is essential for enhancing the interpretability and clinical trustworthiness of deep learning models in cancer diagnosis. However, the black-box nature of these models often limits their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Raktim Kumar Mondol , Ewan K. A. Millar , Peter H. Graham , Lois Browne , Arcot Sowmya , Erik Meijering

This paper explores interpretability techniques for two of the most successful learning algorithms in medical decision-making literature: deep neural networks and random forests. We applied these algorithms in a real-world medical dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Catarina Moreira , Renuka Sindhgatta , Chun Ouyang , Peter Bruza , Andreas Wichert

Cancer survival prediction is an active area of research that can help prevent unnecessary therapies and improve patient's quality of life. Gene expression profiling is being widely used in cancer studies to discover informative biomarkers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh , John H. Phan , May D. Wang

Histomorphology is crucial in cancer diagnosis. However, existing whole slide image (WSI) classification methods struggle to effectively incorporate histomorphology information, limiting their ability to capture key pathological features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Baizhi Wang , Rui Yan , Wenxin Ma , Xu Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Xiaolong Li , Yunjie Gu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Proteins are essential biological macromolecules that execute life functions. Local structural motifs, such as active sites, are the most critical components for linking structure to function and are key to understanding protein evolution…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-10 Zhiyu Wang , Bingxin Zhou , Jing Wang , Yang Tan , Weishu Zhao , Pietro Liò , Liang Hong

Accurate prediction of cancer progression remains a challenge due to the high heterogeneity of molecular omics data across patients. While biologically informed models have improved the interpretability of these predictions, a persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Koushik Howlader , Md Tauhidul Islam , Wei Le

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have emerged as powerful pretrained encoders for computational pathology, but their robustness under clinically relevant distribution shifts remains insufficiently understood. We benchmark the robustness…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Mattias Rantalainen

Pathology image segmentation is crucial in computational pathology for analyzing histological features relevant to cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, current methods face major challenges in clinical applications due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zhixuan Chen , Junlin Hou , Liqi Lin , Yihui Wang , Yequan Bie , Xi Wang , Yanning Zhou , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Hao Chen

NLP-based computer vision models, particularly vision transformers, have been shown to outperform CNN models in many imaging tasks. However, most digital pathology artificial-intelligence models are based on CNN architectures, probably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Min Cen , Xingyu Li , Bangwei Guo , Jitendra Jonnagaddala , Hong Zhang , Xu Steven Xu

Prediction of survival in patients diagnosed with a brain tumour is challenging because of heterogeneous tumour behaviours and responses to treatment. Better estimations of prognosis would support treatment planning and patient support.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Colleen E. Charlton , Michael Tin Chung Poon , Paul M. Brennan , Jacques D. Fleuriot

With the spread and rapid advancement of black box machine learning models, the field of interpretable machine learning (IML) or explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has become increasingly important over the last decade. This is…

Recent advances in cancer research largely rely on new developments in microscopic or molecular profiling techniques offering high level of detail with respect to either spatial or molecular features, but usually not both. Here, we present…

Motivation: Driver (epi)genomic alterations underlie the positive selection of cancer subpopulations, which promotes drug resistance and relapse. Even though substantial heterogeneity is witnessed in most cancer types, mutation accumulation…

Accurate survival prediction from histopathology whole-slide images (WSIs) remains challenging due to their gigapixel resolution, strong spatial heterogeneity, and complex survival distributions. We introduce a comprehensive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ardhendu Sekhar , Vasu Soni , Keshav Aske , Shivam Madnoorkar , Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Survival prediction is a crucial task associated with cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. This paper presents a novel approach to survival prediction by harnessing comprehensive information from CT and PET scans, along with associated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Aiman Farooq , Deepak Mishra , Santanu Chaudhury

Despite great advances, molecular cancer pathology is often limited to the use of a small number of biomarkers rather than the whole transcriptome, partly due to computational challenges. Here, we introduce a novel architecture of Deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-14 Behrooz Azarkhalili , Ali Saberi , Hamidreza Chitsaz , Ali Sharifi-Zarchi

Automated digital histopathology image segmentation is an important task to help pathologists diagnose tumors and cancer subtypes. For pathological diagnosis of cancer subtypes, pathologists usually change the magnification of whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Hiroki Tokunaga , Yuki Teramoto , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Ryoma Bise