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Whole-slide images (WSIs) contain tissue information distributed across multiple magnification levels, yet most self-supervised methods treat these scales as independent views. This separation prevents models from learning representations…

Computational pathology and whole-slide image (WSI) analysis are pivotal in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, the ultra-high resolution of WSIs presents significant modeling challenges. Recent advancements in pathology foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Honglin Li , Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

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

Z-stack scanning is an emerging whole slide imaging technology that captures multiple focal planes alongside the z-axis of a glass slide. Because z-stacking can offer enhanced depth information compared to the single-layer whole slide…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Hongyan Gu , Ellie Onstott , Wenzhong Yan , Tengyou Xu , Ruolin Wang , Zida Wu , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen , Mohammad Haeri

The rapid generation of whole-slide images (WSIs) in dermatopathology necessitates automated methods for efficient processing and accurate classification. This study evaluates the performance of two foundation models, UNI and Virchow2, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Riya Gupta , Yiwei Zong , Dennis H. Murphree

We propose a new method for cancer subtype classification from histopathological images, which can automatically detect tumor-specific features in a given whole slide image (WSI). The cancer subtype should be classified by referring to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Noriaki Hashimoto , Daisuke Fukushima , Ryoichi Koga , Yusuke Takagi , Kaho Ko , Kei Kohno , Masato Nakaguro , Shigeo Nakamura , Hidekata Hontani , Ichiro Takeuchi

To increase the objectivity and accuracy of pathologists' work, artificial neural network(ANN) methods have been generally needed in the segmentation, classification, and detection of histopathological WSI. In this paper, WSI analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Xintong Li , Weiming Hu , Chen Li , Tao Jiang , Hongzan Sun , Xiaoyan Li , Xinyu Huang , Marcin Grzegorzek

Since the emergence of the ImageNet dataset, the pretraining and fine-tuning approach has become widely adopted in computer vision due to the ability of ImageNet-pretrained models to learn a wide variety of visual features. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Adrian Colomer , Valery Naranjo

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has been widely applied in histopathology to classify Whole Slide Images (WSIs) with slide-level diagnoses. While the ground truth is established by expert pathologists, the slides can be difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Marie Arrivat , Rémy Peyret , Elsa Angelini , Pietro Gori

[Purpose] The pathology is decisive for disease diagnosis, but relies heavily on the experienced pathologists. Recently, pathological artificial intelligence (PAI) is thought to improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. However, the high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Yuanqing Yang , Kai Sun , Yanhua Gao , Kuangsong Wang , Gang Yu

The burgeoning discipline of computational pathology shows promise in harnessing whole slide images (WSIs) to quantify morphological heterogeneity and develop objective prognostic modes for human cancers. However, progress is impeded by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chao Tu , Kun Huang , Jie Zhang , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang , Zhenyuan Ning

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) provide exceptional detail for studying tissue architecture at the cell level. To study tumour microenvironment (TME) with the context of various protein biomarkers and cell sub-types, analysis and registration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Adith Jeyasangar , Abdullah Alsalemi , Shan E Ahmed Raza

In the field of computational histopathology, both whole slide images (WSIs) and diagnostic captions provide valuable insights for making diagnostic decisions. However, aligning WSIs with diagnostic captions presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qifeng Zhou , Wenliang Zhong , Yuzhi Guo , Michael Xiao , Hehuan Ma , Junzhou Huang

Due to its superior efficiency in utilizing annotations and addressing gigapixel-sized images, multiple instance learning (MIL) has shown great promise as a framework for whole slide image (WSI) classification in digital pathology…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-14 Qiehe Sun , Jiawen Li , Jin Xu , Junru Cheng , Tian Guan , Yonghong He

Whole-slide image (WSI) classification in computational pathology is commonly formulated as slide-level Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) with a single global bag representation. However, slide-level MIL is fundamentally underconstrained:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Syed Fahim Ahmed , Gnanesh Rasineni , Florian Koehler , Abu Zahid Bin Aziz , Mei Wang , Attila Gyulassy , Brian Summa , J. Quincy Brown , Valerio Pascucci , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Whole slide image (WSI) processing is becoming part of the key components of standard clinical diagnosis for various diseases. However, the direct application of conventional image processing algorithms to WSI faces certain obstacles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yuanfeng Wu , Shaojie Li , Zhiqiang Du , Wentao Zhu

Grading precancerous lesions on whole slide images is a challenging task: the continuous space of morphological phenotypes makes clear-cut decisions between different grades often difficult, leading to low inter- and intra-rater agreements.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Mélanie Lubrano , Yaëlle Bellahsen-Harrar , Rutger Fick , Cécile Badoual , Thomas Walter

Survival analysis based on Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is crucial for evaluating cancer prognosis, as they offer detailed microscopic information essential for predicting patient outcomes. However, traditional WSI-based survival analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zheng Wang , Hong Liu , Zheng Wang , Danyi Li , Min Cen , Baptiste Magnier , Li Liang , Liansheng Wang

The application of deep learning to pathology assumes the existence of digital whole slide images of pathology slides. However, slide digitization is bottlenecked by the high cost of precise motor stages in slide scanners that are needed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Viswesh Krishna , Anirudh Joshi , Philip L. Bulterys , Eric Yang , Andrew Y. Ng , Pranav Rajpurkar

Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) has become an important topic during the last decade. Even though significant progress in both medical image processing and computational resources has been achieved, there are still problems in WSI that need to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Wafa Chenni , Habib Herbi , Morteza Babaie , H. R. Tizhoosh