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Virtual staining streamlines traditional staining procedures by digitally generating stained images from unstained or differently stained images. While conventional staining methods involve time-consuming chemical processes, virtual…

The process of digitising histology slides involves multiple factors that can affect a whole slide image's (WSI) final appearance, including the staining protocol, scanner, and tissue type. This variability constitutes a domain shift and…

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Pathological diagnosis relies on the visual inspection of histologically stained thin tissue specimens, where different types of stains are applied to bring contrast to and highlight various desired histological features. However, the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Xilin Yang , Bijie Bai , Yijie Zhang , Yuzhu Li , Kevin de Haan , Tairan Liu , Aydogan Ozcan

An important part of Digital Pathology is the analysis of multiple digitised whole slide images from differently stained tissue sections. It is common practice to mount consecutive sections containing corresponding microscopic structures on…

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Imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) is a powerful tool for untargeted, highly multiplexed molecular mapping of tissue in biomedical research. IMS offers a means of mapping the spatial distributions of molecular species in biological tissue with…

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Staining is critical to cell imaging and medical diagnosis, which is expensive, time-consuming, labor-intensive, and causes irreversible changes to cell tissues. Recent advances in deep learning enabled digital staining via supervised model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Ziwang Xu , Lanqing Guo , Shuyan Zhang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Color inconsistency is an inevitable challenge in computational pathology, which generally happens because of stain intensity variations or sections scanned by different scanners. It harms the pathological image analysis methods, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Bingchao Zhao , Jiatai Lin , Changhong Liang , Zongjian Yi , Xin Chen , Bingbing Li , Weihao Qiu , Danyi Li , Li Liang , Chu Han , Zaiyi Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have exhibited remarkable success in the field of histopathology image analysis. On the other hand, the contemporary trend of employing large models and extensive datasets has underscored the significance of…

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Virtual immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) images can accelerate diagnostics by providing preliminary molecular insight directly from routine sections, reducing the need for repeat sectioning when tissue is…

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In digital pathology, many image analysis tasks are challenged by the need for large and time-consuming manual data annotations to cope with various sources of variability in the image domain. Unsupervised domain adaptation based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Nassim Bouteldja , Barbara Mara Klinkhammer , Tarek Schlaich , Peter Boor , Dorit Merhof

Virtual staining of tissue offers a powerful tool for transforming label-free microscopy images of unstained tissue into equivalents of histochemically stained samples. This study presents a diffusion model-based super-resolution virtual…

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Although generative adversarial network (GAN) based style transfer is state of the art in histopathology color-stain normalization, they do not explicitly integrate structural information of tissues. We propose a self-supervised approach to…

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Digital pathology has advanced significantly over the last decade, with Whole Slide Images (WSIs) encompassing vast amounts of data essential for accurate disease diagnosis. High-resolution WSIs are essential for precise diagnosis but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Xuan Xu , Saarthak Kapse , Prateek Prasanna

Histological analysis of tissue samples is one of the most widely used methods for disease diagnosis. After taking a sample from a patient, it goes through a lengthy and laborious preparation, which stains the tissue to visualize different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Yair Rivenson , Hongda Wang , Zhensong Wei , Yibo Zhang , Harun Gunaydin , Aydogan Ozcan

Virtual stain transfer leverages computer-assisted technology to transform the histochemical staining patterns of tissue samples into other staining types. However, existing methods often lose detailed pathological information due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haiyan Wei , Hangrui Xu , Bingxu Zhu , Yulian Geng , Aolei Liu , Wenfei Yin , Jian Liu

Different types of staining highlight different structures in organs, thereby assisting in diagnosis. However, due to the impossibility of repeated staining, we cannot obtain different types of stained slides of the same tissue area.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Zexin Li , Yiyang Lin , Zijie Fang , Shuyan Li , Xiu Li

Blood cell identification is critical for hematological analysis as it aids physicians in diagnosing various blood-related diseases. In real-world scenarios, blood cell image datasets often present the issues of domain shift and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yongcheng Li , Lingcong Cai , Ying Lu , Xianghua Fu , Xiao Han , Ma Li , Wenxing Lai , Xiangzhong Zhang , Xiaomao Fan

The rapid advancement of generative AI has raised concerns about the authenticity of digital images, as highly realistic fake images can now be generated at low cost, potentially increasing societal risks. In response, several datasets have…

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The classification of Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR) in kidney transplant remains challenging even for experienced nephropathologists; this is partly because histological tissue stain analysis is often characterized by low inter-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Pietro Antonio Cicalese , Aryan Mobiny , Pengyu Yuan , Jan Becker , Chandra Mohan , Hien Van Nguyen

Stain normalization often refers to transferring the color distribution of the source image to that of the target image and has been widely used in biomedical image analysis. The conventional stain normalization is regarded as constructing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Hongtao Kang , Die Luo , Weihua Feng , Junbo Hu , Shaoqun Zeng , Tingwei Quan , Xiuli Liu