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The advancement of biomedical research heavily relies on access to large amounts of medical data. In the case of histopathology, Whole Slide Images (WSI) and clinicopathological information are valuable for developing Artificial…

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In digital pathology, Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is usually formulated as a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. Although transformer-based architectures have been used for WSI classification, these methods require modifications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Juan I. Pisula , Katarzyna Bozek

Digital pathology is not only one of the most promising fields of diagnostic medicine, but at the same time a hot topic for fundamental research. Digital pathology is not just the transfer of histopathological slides into digital…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Andreas Holzinger , Bernd Malle , Peter Kieseberg , Peter M. Roth , Heimo Müller , Robert Reihs , Kurt Zatloukal

The automatic registration of differently stained whole slide images (WSIs) is crucial for improving diagnosis and prognosis by fusing complementary information emerging from different visible structures. It is also useful to quickly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Marek Wodzinski , Niccolò Marini , Manfredo Atzori , Henning Müller

Lifelong learning on Whole Slide Images (WSIs) aims to train or fine-tune a unified model sequentially on cancer-related tasks, reducing the resources and effort required for data transfer and processing, especially given the gigabyte-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Doanh C. Bui , Ba Hung Ngo , Hoai Luan Pham , Khang Nguyen , Maï K. Nguyen , Yasuhiko Nakashima

Pathological diagnosis is vital for determining disease characteristics, guiding treatment, and assessing prognosis, relying heavily on detailed, multi-scale analysis of high-resolution whole slide images (WSI). However, existing large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shengxuming Zhang , Weihan Li , Tianhong Gao , Jiacong Hu , Haoming Luo , Xiuming Zhang , Jing Zhang , Mingli Song , Zunlei Feng

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are giga-pixel in scale and are typically partitioned into small instances in WSI classification pipelines for computational feasibility. However, obtaining extensive instance level annotations is costly, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jayanie Bogahawatte , Sachith Seneviratne , Saman Halgamuge

The emergence of digital pathology has opened new horizons for histopathology and cytology. Artificial-intelligence algorithms are able to operate on digitized slides to assist pathologists with diagnostic tasks. Whereas machine learning…

Whole slide image (WSI) registration is an essential task for analysing the tumour microenvironment (TME) in histopathology. It involves the alignment of spatial information between WSIs of the same section or serial sections of a tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Behnaz Elhaminia , Abdullah Alsalemi , Esha Nasir , Mostafa Jahanifar , Ruqayya Awan , Lawrence S. Young , Nasir M. Rajpoot , Fayyaz Minhas , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Whole-slide image visual question answering (WSI-VQA) frames pathology as an extreme-context search problem: to answer a free-form clinical query, a system must first navigate a gigapixel slide under a strict inspection budget to locate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Chunze Yang , Qidong Liu , Wenjie Zhao , Yue Tang , Jiusong Ge , Di Zhang , Jiashuai Liu , Lei Wu , Junbo Lu , Ni Zhang , Xian Wu , Zeyu Gao , Chen Li

Histopathological image analysis is an essential process for the discovery of diseases such as cancer. However, it is challenging to train CNN on whole slide images (WSIs) of gigapixel resolution considering the available memory capacity.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Shusuke Takahama , Yusuke Kurose , Yusuke Mukuta , Hiroyuki Abe , Masashi Fukayama , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Masanobu Kitagawa , Tatsuya Harada

Histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) are being widely used to develop deep learning-based diagnostic solutions, especially for precision oncology. Most of these diagnostic softwares are vulnerable to biases and impurities in the…

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Pathologists diagnose cancer using gigapixel whole-slide images (WSIs), but the current digital workflow is fragmented. These multiscale datasets often exceed 100,000 x 100,000 pixels, yet standard 2D monitors restrict the field of view.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jai Prakash Veerla , Partha Sai Guttikonda , Helen H. Shang , Mohammad Sadegh Nasr , Cesar Torres , Jacob M. Luber

In digital pathology, whole slide images (WSIs) are widely used for applications such as cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction. Visual transformer models have recently emerged as a promising method for encoding large regions of WSIs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuai Jiang , Liesbeth Hondelink , Arief A. Suriawinata , Saeed Hassanpour

While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has shown promising results in digital Pathology Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification, such a paradigm still faces performance and generalization problems due to challenges in high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Honglin Li , Chenglu Zhu , Yunlong Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Zhongyi Shui , Wenwei Kuang , Sunyi Zheng , Lin Yang

Despite the promises of data-driven artificial intelligence (AI), little is known about how we can bridge the gulf between traditional physician-driven diagnosis and a plausible future of medicine automated by AI. Specifically, how can we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Hongyan Gu , Jingbin Huang , Lauren Hung , Xiang 'Anthony' Chen

Accurate analysis of histopathological images is critical for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Whole-slide images (WSIs), which digitize tissue specimens at gigapixel resolution, are fundamental to this process but require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Enhui Chai , Sicheng Chen , Tianyi Zhang , Chad Wong , Kecheng Huang , Zeyu Liu , Fei Xia

Recent advances in agentic artificial intelligence, i.e. systems capable of autonomous perception, reasoning, and tool use, offer new opportunities for digital pathology. In this pilot study, we evaluate whether two agentic multimodal AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Marc Aubreville , Taryn A. Donovan , Christof A. Bertram

Whole slide images (WSIs) are vital in digital pathology, enabling gigapixel tissue analysis across various pathological tasks. While recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) allow multi-task WSI analysis through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xinheng Lyu , Yuci Liang , Wenting Chen , Meidan Ding , Jiaqi Yang , Guolin Huang , Daokun Zhang , Xiangjian He , Linlin Shen

Pathology has played a crucial role in the diagnosis and evaluation of patient tissue samples obtained from surgeries and biopsies for many years. The advent of Whole Slide Scanners and the development of deep learning technologies have…

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