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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

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

Adder neural networks (AdderNets) have shown impressive performance on image classification with only addition operations, which are more energy efficient than traditional convolutional neural networks built with multiplications. Compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Xinghao Chen , Chang Xu , Minjing Dong , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

In certain types of cancerous tissue, mitotic count has been shown to be associated with tumor proliferation, poor prognosis, and therapeutic resistance. Due to the high inter-rater variability of mitotic counting by pathologists,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ruiwen Ding , James Hall , Neil Tenenholtz , Kristen Severson

With the rapid development of wireless communications and the growing complexity of digital modulation schemes, traditional manual modulation recognition methods struggle to extract reliable signal features and meet real-time requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yao Lu , Tengfei Ma , Zeyu Wang , Zhuangzhi Chen , Dongwei Xu , Yun Lin , Qi Xuan , Guan Gui

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

Accurate mitotic figure classification is crucial in computational pathology, as mitotic activity informs cancer grading and patient prognosis. Distinguishing atypical mitotic figures (AMFs), which indicate higher tumor aggressiveness, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hana Feki , Alice Blondel , Thomas Walter

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

Recently, many researchers have attempted to improve deep learning-based object detection models, both in terms of accuracy and operational speeds. However, frequently, there is a trade-off between speed and accuracy of such models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sannidhi P Kumar , Chandan Gautam , Suresh Sundaram

Deep learning has revolutionized object detection thanks to large-scale datasets, but their object categories are still arguably very limited. In this paper, we attempt to enrich such categories by addressing the one-shot object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Xiang Li , Lin Zhang , Yau Pun Chen , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

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

Mitotic figure detection is a challenging task in digital pathology that has a direct impact on therapeutic decisions. While automated methods often achieve acceptable results under laboratory conditions, they frequently fail in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Jakob Dexl , Michaela Benz , Volker Bruns , Petr Kuritcyn , Thomas Wittenberg

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) allow achieving the highest accuracy for the task of object detection in images. Major challenges in further development of object detectors are false-positive detections and high demand of processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 David Svitov , Sergey Alyamkin

We develop a deep learning algorithm for contour detection with a fully convolutional encoder-decoder network. Different from previous low-level edge detection, our algorithm focuses on detecting higher-level object contours. Our network is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Jimei Yang , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Honglak Lee , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The effective localization of mitosis is a critical precursory task for deciding tumor prognosis and grade. Automated mitosis detection through deep learning-oriented image analysis often fails on unseen patient data due to inherent domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Tirupati Saketh Chandr , Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Amit Sethi

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

Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) represent abnormal cell division associated with poor prognosis. Yet their detection remains difficult due to low prevalence, subtle morphology, and inter-observer variability. The MIDOG 2025 challenge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Guillaume Balezo , Hana Feki , Raphaël Bourgade , Lily Monnier , Matthieu Blons , Alice Blondel , Etienne Decencière , Albert Pla Planas , Thomas Walter

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims at learning a detector that can fast adapt to previously unseen objects with scarce annotated examples, which is challenging and demanding. Existing methods solve this problem by performing subtasks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Longyao Liu , Bo Ma , Yulin Zhang , Xin Yi , Haozhi Li

Automated mitotic detection in time-lapse phasecontrast microscopy provides us much information for cell behavior analysis, and thus several mitosis detection methods have been proposed. However, these methods still have two problems; 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise