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The variation in histologic staining between different medical centers is one of the most profound challenges in the field of computer-aided diagnosis. The appearance disparity of pathological whole slide images causes algorithms to become…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Martin J. Hetz , Tabea-Clara Bucher , Titus J. Brinker

Performance of deep learning algorithms decreases drastically if the data distributions of the training and testing sets are different. Due to variations in staining protocols, reagent brands, and habits of technicians, color variation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Abhijeet Patil , Mohd. Talha , Aniket Bhatia , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Sammed Mangale , Sunil Patel , Amit Sethi

Semantic segmentation under domain shift remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, particularly when labelled training data is scarce. This challenge is particularly exemplified in histopathology image analysis, where the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zeeshan Nisar , Friedrich Feuerhake , Thomas Lampert

We present a self-supervised algorithm for several classification tasks within hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained images of breast cancer. Our method is robust to stain variations inherent to the histology images acquisition process, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Alexandre Tiard , Alex Wong , David Joon Ho , Yangchao Wu , Eliram Nof , Alvin C. Goh , Stefano Soatto , Saad Nadeem

We propose a novel method for large-scale image stitching that is robust against repetitive patterns and featureless regions in the imagery. In such cases, state-of-the-art image stitching methods easily produce image alignment artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Matti Pellikka , Valtteri Lahtinen

Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) have enabled high-fidelity computational staining and destaining of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) in digital pathology whole-slide images (WSI). However, their ability to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Aarushi Kulkarni , Alarice Lowe , Pratik Shah

Generative virtual staining (VS) models for high-throughput screening (HTS) can provide an estimated posterior distribution of possible biological feature values for each input and cell. However, when evaluating a VS model, the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Samuel Tonks , Steve Hood , Ryan Musso , Ceridwen Hopely , Steve Titus , Minh Doan , Iain Styles , Alexander Krull

Deploying deep learning-based imaging tools across various clinical sites poses significant challenges due to inherent domain shifts and regulatory hurdles associated with site-specific fine-tuning. For histopathology, stain normalization…

Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining visualizes histology but lacks specificity for diagnostic markers. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining provides protein-targeted staining but is restricted by tissue availability and antibody…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Anran Liu , Xiaofei Wang , Jing Cai , Chao Li

Synthesizing high-quality images from text descriptions is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Samples generated by existing text-to-image approaches can roughly reflect the meaning of the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Han Zhang , Tao Xu , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Xiaolei Huang , Dimitris Metaxas

Multiplex immunofluorescence (MxIF) is an emerging imaging technique that produces the high sensitivity and specificity of single-cell mapping. With a tenet of 'seeing is believing', MxIF enables iterative staining and imaging extensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Shunxing Bao , Yucheng Tang , Ho Hin Lee , Riqiang Gao , Sophie Chiron , Ilwoo Lyu , Lori A. Coburn , Keith T. Wilson , Joseph T. Roland , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo

It is commonly recognized that color variations caused by differences in stains is a critical issue for histopathology image analysis. Existing methods adopt color matching, stain separation, stain transfer or the combination of them to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Hai-Li Ye , Da-Han Wang

Advance in medical imaging is an important part in deep learning research. One of the goals of computer vision is development of a holistic, comprehensive model which can identify tumors from histology slides obtained via biopsies. A major…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Vidit Gautam

Accurate semantic segmentation for histopathology image is crucial for quantitative tissue analysis and downstream clinical modeling. Recent segmentation foundation models have improved generalization through large-scale pretraining, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Peixian Liang , Songhao Li , Shunsuke Koga , Yutong Li , Zahra Alipour , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Zhi Huang

Digital pathology has made significant advances in tumor diagnosis and segmentation, but image variability due to differences in organs, tissue preparation, and acquisition - known as domain shift - limits the effectiveness of current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Ho Heon Kim , Won Chan Jeong , Young Shin Ko , Young Jin Park

Histopathology tissue samples are widely available in two states: paraffin-embedded unstained and non-paraffin-embedded stained whole slide RGB images (WSRI). Hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is one of the principal stains in histology but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Aman Rana , Gregory Yauney , Alarice Lowe , Pratik Shah

Histopathological analysis is crucial in artery characterization for coronary artery disease (CAD). However, histology requires an invasive and time-consuming process. In this paper, we propose to generate virtual histology staining using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Xueshen Li , Hongshan Liu , Xiaoyu Song , Brigitta C. Brott , Silvio H. Litovsky , Yu Gan

Variability in staining protocols, such as different slide preparation techniques, chemicals, and scanner configurations, can result in a diverse set of whole slide images (WSIs). This distribution shift can negatively impact the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Kudaibergen Abutalip , Numan Saeed , Mustaqeem Khan , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

While human observers are able to cope with variations in color and appearance of histological stains, digital pathology algorithms commonly require a well-normalized setting to achieve peak performance, especially when a limited amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Daniel Bug , Steffen Schneider , Anne Grote , Eva Oswald , Friedrich Feuerhake , Julia Schüler , Dorit Merhof

Immunohistochemical (IHC) virtual staining is a task that generates virtual IHC images from H\&E images while maintaining pathological semantic consistency with adjacent slices. This task aims to achieve cross-domain mapping between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yue Peng , Bing Xiong , Fuqiang Chen , De Eybo , RanRan Zhang , Wanming Hu , Jing Cai , Wenjian Qin