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In computational pathology, several foundation models have recently emerged and demonstrated enhanced learning capability for analyzing pathology images. However, adapting these models to various downstream tasks remains challenging,…

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Diagnosing and treating skin diseases require advanced visual skills across domains and the ability to synthesize information from multiple imaging modalities. While current deep learning models excel at specific tasks like skin cancer…

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have rapidly advanced and are becoming a common backbone for downstream clinical tasks, offering strong transferability across tissues and institutions. However, for dense prediction (e.g., segmentation),…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Weiming Chen , Xitong Ling , Xidong Wang , Zhenyang Cai , Yijia Guo , Mingxi Fu , Ziyi Zeng , Minxi Ouyang , Jiawen Li , Yizhi Wang , Tian Guan , Benyou Wang , Yonghong He

The accelerated adoption of digital pathology and advances in deep learning have enabled the development of powerful models for various pathology tasks across a diverse array of diseases and patient cohorts. However, model training is often…

Remarkable strides in computational pathology have been made in the task-agnostic foundation model that advances the performance of a wide array of downstream clinical tasks. Despite the promising performance, there are still several…

Foundation models for computational pathology are expected to facilitate the development of high-performing, generalisable deep learning systems. However, in addition to biologically relevant features, current foundation models also capture…

Background and objective: Cell-level pathological image analysis requires working with extremely small image patches (40x40 pixels), far below standard ImageNet resolutions. It remains unclear whether modern deep learning architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hiroki Kagiyama , Toru Nagasaka , Yukari Adachi , Takaaki Tachibana , Ryota Ito , Mitsugu Fujita , Kimihiro Yamashita , Yoshihiro Kakeji

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in pathology has evolved from aiding diagnostics to uncovering predictive morphological patterns in whole slide images (WSIs). Recently, foundation models (FMs) leveraging self-supervised…

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale pathology datasets have shown promising results across various diagnostic tasks. Here, we present a systematic evaluation of transfer learning strategies for brain tumor classification using these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Ken Enda , Yoshitaka Oda , Zen-ichi Tanei , Kenichi Satoh , Hiroaki Motegi , Terasaka Shunsuke , Shigeru Yamaguchi , Takahiro Ogawa , Wang Lei , Masumi Tsuda , Shinya Tanaka

The recent surge of foundation models in computer vision and natural language processing opens up perspectives in utilizing multi-modal clinical data to train large models with strong generalizability. Yet pathological image datasets often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yunkun Zhang , Jin Gao , Mu Zhou , Xiaosong Wang , Yu Qiao , Shaoting Zhang , Dequan Wang

Computational pathology (CPath) has shown great potential in mining actionable insights from Whole Slide Images (WSIs). Deep Learning (DL) has been at the center of modern CPath, and while it delivers unprecedented performance, it is also…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-31 Gianluca Carloni , Biagio Brattoli , Seongho Keum , Jongchan Park , Taebum Lee , Chang Ho Ahn , Sergio Pereira

The use of artificial intelligence to enable precision medicine and decision support systems through the analysis of pathology images has the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Such applications will depend on…

Foundation models (FMs) are transforming computational pathology by offering new ways to analyze histopathology images. However, FMs typically require weeks of training on large databases, making their creation a resource-intensive process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Till Nicke , Daniela Schacherer , Jan Raphael Schäfer , Natalia Artysh , Antje Prasse , André Homeyer , Andrea Schenk , Henning Höfener , Johannes Lotz

Pathological assessment guides lung cancer diagnosis, treatment selection, and prognostic evaluation, yet current CPath approaches rely on task-specific models for isolated objectives. Although pan-cancer foundation models offer…

Goal: Squamous cell carcinoma of cervix is one of the most prevalent cancer worldwide in females. Traditionally, the most indispensable diagnosis of cervix squamous carcinoma is histopathological assessment which is achieved under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ye Tian , Li Yang , Wei Wang , Jing Zhang , Qing Tang , Mili Ji , Yang Yu , Yu Li , Hong Yang , Airong Qian

Histopathological images are widely used for the analysis of diseased (tumor) tissues and patient treatment selection. While the majority of microscopy image processing was previously done manually by pathologists, recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Andrey Ignatov , Josephine Yates , Valentina Boeva

The rapid development of digital pathology and modern deep learning has facilitated the emergence of pathology foundation models that are expected to solve general pathology problems under various disease conditions in one unified model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yutong Sun , Sichen Zhu , Peng Qiu

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) continue to pose challenges for multimodal understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Fengchun Liu , Songhan Jiang , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

To evaluate the translational capabilities of foundation models, we develop a pathological concept learning approach focused on kidney cancer. By leveraging TNM staging guidelines and pathology reports, we build comprehensive pathological…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Shangqi Gao , Sihan Wang , Yibo Gao , Boming Wang , Xiahai Zhuang , Anne Warren , Grant Stewart , James Jones , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar

Cytology slides are essential tools in diagnosing and staging cancer, but their analysis is time-consuming and costly. Foundation models have shown great potential to assist in these tasks. In this paper, we explore how existing foundation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Manon Dausort , Tiffanie Godelaine , Maxime Zanella , Karim El Khoury , Isabelle Salmon , Benoît Macq