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We tackle atypical versus normal mitosis classification in the MIDOG 2025 challenge using EfficientViT-L2, a hybrid CNN--ViT architecture optimized for accuracy and efficiency. A unified dataset of 13,938 nuclei from seven cancer types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Xuan Qi , Dominic Labella , Thomas Sanford , Maxwell Lee

Mitotic activity is an important feature for grading several cancer types. Counting mitotic figures (MFs) is a time-consuming, laborious task prone to inter-observer variation. Inaccurate recognition of MFs can lead to incorrect grading and…

This work presents a mitosis detection method with only one vanilla Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our method consists of two steps: given an image, we first apply a CNN using a sliding window technique to extract patches that have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Hongyan Gu , Mohammad Haeri , Shuo Ni , Christopher Kazu Williams , Neda Zarrin-Khameh , Shino Magaki , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

Mitotic figure detection in histology images is a hard-to-define, yet clinically significant task, where labels are generated with pathologist interpretations and where there is no ``gold-standard'' independent ground-truth. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Cagla Deniz Bahadir , Benjamin Liechty , David J. Pisapia , Mert R. Sabuncu

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are important histopathological markers yet remain challenging to identify consistently, particularly under domain shift stemming from scanner, stain, and acquisition differences. We present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kaustubh Atey , Sameer Anand Jha , Gouranga Bala , Amit Sethi

This paper presents our solution for the MIDOG 2025 Challenge Track 2, which focuses on binary classification of normal mitotic figures (NMFs) versus atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) in histopathological images. Our approach leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yosuke Yamagishi , Shouhei Hanaoka

With a continuously growing availability of annotated datasets of mitotic figures in histology images, finding the best way to optimally use with this unprecedented amount of data to optimally train deep learning models has become a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Maxime W. Lafarge , Viktor H. Koelzer

Mitotic figures are classified into typical and atypical variants, with atypical counts correlating strongly with tumor aggressiveness. Accurate differentiation is therefore essential for patient prognostication and resource allocation, yet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Mieko Ochi , Bae Yuan

Accurate detection of mitosis plays a critical role in breast cancer histopathology. Manual detection and counting of mitosis is tedious and subject to considerable inter- and intra-reader variations. Multispectral imaging is a recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-16 H. Irshad , A. Gouaillard , L. Roux , D. Racoceanu

The difficulty of detecting mitosis and its similarity to non-mitosis objects has remained a challenge in computational pathology. The lack of publicly available data has added more complexity. Deep learning algorithms have shown potentials…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Seyed H. Mirjahanmardi , Samir Mitha , Salar Razavi , Susan Done , April Khademi

We present a summary of the domain adaptive cascade R-CNN method for mitosis detection of digital histopathology images. By comprehensive data augmentation and adapting existing popular detection architecture, our proposed method has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Xi Long , Ying Cheng , Xiao Mu , Lian Liu , Jingxin Liu

Identification and counting of cells and mitotic figures is a standard task in diagnostic histopathology. Due to the large overall cell count on histological slides and the potential sparse prevalence of some relevant cell types or mitotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Marc Aubreville , Maximilian Krappmann , Christof Bertram , Robert Klopfleisch , Andreas Maier

Mitotic counts are one of the key indicators of breast cancer prognosis. However, accurate mitotic cell counting is still a difficult problem and is labourious. Automated methods have been proposed for this task, but are usually dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Salar Razavi , Fariba Dambandkhameneh , Dimitri Androutsos , Susan Done , April Khademi

Manual count of mitotic figures, which is determined in the tumor region with the highest mitotic activity, is a key parameter of most tumor grading schemes. It can be, however, strongly dependent on the area selection due to uneven mitotic…

This is the submission for mitosis detection in the context of the MIDOG 2021 challenge. It is based on the two-stage objection model Faster RCNN as well as DenseNet as a backbone for the neural network architecture. It achieves a F1-score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Michel Halmes , Hippolyte Heuberger , Sylvain Berlemont

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

Face detection is a crucial component in many AI-driven applications such as surveillance, biometric authentication, and human-computer interaction. However, real-world conditions like low-resolution imagery present significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ahmet Can Ömercikoğlu , Mustafa Mansur Yönügül , Pakize Erdoğmuş

Each woman living in the United States has about 1 in 8 chance of developing invasive breast cancer. The mitotic cell count is one of the most common tests to assess the aggressiveness or grade of breast cancer. In this prognosis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Robin Elizabeth Yancey

For the MIDOG mitosis detection challenge, we created a cascade algorithm consisting of a Mask-RCNN detector, followed by a classification ensemble consisting of ResNet50 and DenseNet201 to refine detected mitotic candidates. The MIDOG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Gauthier Roy , Jules Dedieu , Capucine Bertrand , Alireza Moshayedi , Ali Mammadov , Stéphanie Petit , Saima Ben Hadj , Rutger H. J. Fick

We present a solution for the MIDOG 2025 Challenge Track~2, addressing binary classification of normal mitotic figures (NMFs) versus atypical mitotic figures (AMFs). The approach leverages pathology-specific foundation model H-optimus-0,…