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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

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 figure detection is a crucial task in computational pathology, as mitotic activity serves as a strong prognostic marker for tumor aggressiveness. However, domain variability that arises from differences in scanners, tissue types,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Yasemin Topuz , M. Taha Gökcan , Serdar Yıldız , Songül Varlı

Mitosis nuclei count is one of the important indicators for the pathological diagnosis of breast cancer. The manual annotation needs experienced pathologists, which is very time-consuming and inefficient. With the development of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Huadeng Wang , Zhipeng Liu , Rushi Lan , Zhenbing Liu , Xiaonan Luo , Xipeng Pan , Bingbing Li

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

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

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

The density of mitotic figures within tumor tissue is known to be highly correlated with tumor proliferation and thus is an important marker in tumor grading. Recognition of mitotic figures by pathologists is known to be subject to a strong…

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

Introduction: Nottingham grading system is a major prognostic factor for invasive breast carcinoma (IBC). Its determination requires the evaluation of the mitotic score (MS) which is subject to low intra- and inter-observer reproducibility.…

Modern object detection methods can be divided into one-stage approaches and two-stage ones. One-stage detectors are more efficient owing to straightforward architectures, but the two-stage detectors still take the lead in accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xin Lu , Quanquan Li , Buyu Li , Junjie Yan

Mitosis detection is one of the fundamental tasks in computational pathology, which is extremely challenging due to the heterogeneity of mitotic cell. Most of the current studies solve the heterogeneity in the technical aspect by increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hao Wang , Jiatai Lin , Danyi Li , Jing Wang , Bingchao Zhao , Zhenwei Shi , Xipeng Pan , Huadeng Wang , Bingbing Li , Changhong Liang , Guoqiang Han , Li Liang , Chu Han , Zaiyi Liu

Atypical mitotic figures are important biomarkers of tumor aggressiveness in histopathology, yet reliable recognition remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and variability across imaging domains. We present a DenseNet-121-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adinath Dukre , Ankan Deria , Yutong Xie , Imran Razzak

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…

Presently, the task of few-shot object detection (FSOD) in remote sensing images (RSIs) has become a focal point of attention. Numerous few-shot detectors, particularly those based on two-stage detectors, face challenges when dealing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wenbin Guan , Zijiu Yang , Xiaohong Wu , Liqiong Chen , Feng Huang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen

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

Mitosis count is an important biomarker for prognosis of various cancers. At present, pathologists typically perform manual counting on a few selected regions of interest in breast whole-slide-images (WSIs) of patient biopsies. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Saad Ullah Akram , Talha Qaiser , Simon Graham , Juho Kannala , Janne Heikkilä , Nasir Rajpoot

Mitotic counting is a vital prognostic marker of tumor proliferation in breast cancer. Deep learning-based mitotic detection is on par with pathologists, but it requires large labeled data for training. We propose a deep classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Pushpak Pati , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez , Orcun Goksel , Maria Gabrani

Mitotic count (MC) is an important histological parameter for cancer diagnosis and grading, but the manual process for obtaining MC from whole-slide histopathological images is very time-consuming and prone to error. Therefore, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chawan Piansaddhayanon , Sakun Santisukwongchote , Shanop Shuangshoti , Qingyi Tao , Sira Sriswasdi , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

In this paper we propose a workflow to detect and track mitotic cells in time-lapse microscopy image sequences. In order to avoid the requirement for cell lines expressing fluorescent markers and the associated phototoxicity, phase contrast…