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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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Pathological diagnosis remains the definitive standard for identifying tumors. The rise of multimodal large models has simplified the process of integrating image analysis with textual descriptions. Despite this advancement, the substantial…

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Advances in optical microscopy scanning have significantly contributed to computational pathology (CPath) by converting traditional histopathological slides into whole slide images (WSIs). This development enables comprehensive digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Xitong Ling , Yuanyuan Lei , Jiawen Li , Junru Cheng , Wenting Huang , Tian Guan , Jian Guan , Yonghong He

Foundation models in computational pathology promise to unlock the development of new clinical decision support systems and models for precision medicine. However, there is a mismatch between most clinical analysis, which is defined at the…

Artificial intelligence has started to transform histopathology impacting clinical diagnostics and biomedical research. However, while many computational pathology approaches have been proposed, most current AI models are limited with…

Prediction tasks in digital pathology are challenging due to the massive size of whole-slide images (WSIs) and the weak nature of training signals. Advances in computing, data availability, and self-supervised learning (SSL) have paved the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Vishwesh Ramanathan , Tony Xu , Pushpak Pati , Faruk Ahmed , Maged Goubran , Anne L. Martel

Recent advances in deep learning have completely transformed the domain of computational pathology (CPath). More specifically, it has altered the diagnostic workflow of pathologists by integrating foundation models (FMs) and vision-language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Dibaloke Chanda , Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahya Soltani , Masoud Ganji

Whole-slide images (WSIs) from cancer patients contain rich information that can be used for medical diagnosis or to follow treatment progress. To automate their analysis, numerous deep learning methods based on convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lucas Sancéré , Noémie Moreau , Katarzyna Bozek

Mitotic figures are classified into typical and atypical variants, with atypical counts correlating strongly with tumor aggressiveness. Accurate differentiation is therefore essential for patient prognostication and resource allocation, yet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Mieko Ochi , Bae Yuan

The rapidly emerging field of deep learning-based computational pathology has demonstrated promise in developing objective prognostic models from histology whole slide images. However, most prognostic models are either based on histology or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Richard J. Chen , Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Jana Lipkova , Muhammad Shaban , Maha Shady , Mane Williams , Bumjin Joo , Zahra Noor , Faisal Mahmood

The complexity and variability inherent in high-resolution pathological images present significant challenges in computational pathology. While pathology foundation models leveraging AI have catalyzed transformative advancements, their…

The histological assessment of human tissue has emerged as the key challenge for detection and treatment of cancer. A plethora of different data sources ranging from tissue microarray data to gene expression, proteomics or metabolomics data…

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Computational pathology holds substantial promise for improving diagnosis and guiding treatment decisions. Recent pathology foundation models enable the extraction of rich patch-level representations from large-scale whole-slide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xiangde Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Yuanfeng Ji , Ruijiang Li

Computational pathology has made significant progress in recent years, fueling advances in both fundamental disease understanding and clinically ready tools. This evolution is driven by the availability of large amounts of digitized slides…

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing whole slide images (WSIs). However, adapting these pretrained PFMs for specific clinical tasks presents considerable challenges, primarily due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Neeraj Kumar , Swaraj Nanda , Siddharth Singi , Jamal Benhamida , David Kim , Jie-Fu Chen , Amir Momeni-Boroujeni , Gregory M. Goldgof , Gabriele Campanella , Chad Vanderbilt

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have recently emerged as powerful pretrained encoders for computational pathology, enabling transfer learning across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, systematic comparisons of these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Constance Boissin , Johan Vallon-Christersson , David A. Clifton , Mattias Rantalainen

Accurate classification of skin lesions from dermatoscopic images is essential for diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer. In this study, we investigate the utility of a dermatology-specific foundation model, PanDerm, in comparison with two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Amirreza Mahbod , Rupert Ecker , Ramona Woitek

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

Due to morphological similarities, the differentiation of histologic sections of cutaneous tumors into individual subtypes can be challenging. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have proven their potential for supporting pathologists…

Driven by the recent advances in deep learning methods and, in particular, by the development of modern self-supervised learning algorithms, increased interest and efforts have been devoted to build foundation models (FMs) for medical…

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