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Foundation models are reshaping computational pathology by enabling transfer learning, where models pre-trained on vast datasets can be adapted for downstream diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic response tasks. Despite these advances,…

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Foundation models are trained on massive amounts of data to distinguish complex patterns and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks with minimal computational resources. Here, we develop a foundation model for prostate cancer…

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Histopathology can help clinicians make accurate diagnoses, determine disease prognosis, and plan appropriate treatment strategies. As deep learning techniques prove successful in the medical domain, the primary challenges become limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhe Li , Bernhard Kainz

Foundation models (FM) have transformed computational pathology but remain computationally prohibitive for clinical deployment due to their massive parameter counts and high-magnification processing requirements. Here, we introduce XMAG, a…

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Histopathology serves as the gold standard in cancer diagnosis, with clinical reports being vital in interpreting and understanding this process, guiding cancer treatment and patient care. The automation of histopathology report generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhengrui Guo , Jiabo Ma , Yingxue Xu , Yihui Wang , Liansheng Wang , Hao Chen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Manahil Raza , Saad Bashir , Talha Qaiser , Nasir Rajpoot

Accurately modeling multi-class cell topology is crucial in digital pathology, as it provides critical insights into tissue structure and pathology. The synthetic generation of cell topology enables realistic simulations of complex tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Meilong Xu , Saumya Gupta , Xiaoling Hu , Chen Li , Shahira Abousamra , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna , Chao Chen

The emergence of foundation models in computational pathology has transformed histopathological image analysis, with whole slide imaging (WSI) diagnosis being a core application. Traditionally, weakly supervised fine-tuning via multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiawen Li , Jiali Hu , Qiehe Sun , Renao Yan , Minxi Ouyang , Tian Guan , Anjia Han , Chao He , Yonghong He

Motivation: In recent years, image-based biological assays have steadily become high-throughput, sparking a need for fast automated methods to extract biologically-meaningful information from hundreds of thousands of images. Taking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Stanley Bryan Z. Hua , Alex X. Lu , Alan M. Moses

Histopathological images contain rich phenotypic information that can be used to monitor underlying mechanisms contributing to diseases progression and patient survival outcomes. Recently, deep learning has become the mainstream…

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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,…

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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.…

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Background: Histopathology is an important modality for the diagnosis and management of many diseases in modern healthcare, and plays a critical role in cancer care. Pathology samples can be large and require multi-site sampling, leading to…

This paper addresses complex challenges in histopathological image analysis through three key contributions. Firstly, it introduces a fast patch selection method, FPS, for whole-slide image (WSI) analysis, significantly reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Saghir Alfasly , Abubakr Shafique , Peyman Nejat , Jibran Khan , Areej Alsaafin , Ghazal Alabtah , H. R. Tizhoosh

The development of computational pathology lies in the consensus that pathological characteristics of tumors are significant guidance for cancer diagnostics. Most existing research focuses on the inner-contextual information within each WSI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jun Shi , Tong Shu , Zhiguo Jiang , Wei Wang , Haibo Wu , Yushan Zheng

Multi-focus image fusion technologies compress different focus depth images into an image in which most objects are in focus. However, although existing image fusion techniques, including traditional algorithms and deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Xiebo Geng , Sibo Liua , Wei Han , Xu Li , Jiabo Ma , Jingya Yu , Xiuli Liu , Sahoqun Zeng , Li Chen , Shenghua Cheng

While machine learning is currently transforming the field of histopathology, the domain lacks a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art models based on essential but complementary quality requirements beyond a mere classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Maximilian Springenberg , Annika Frommholz , Markus Wenzel , Eva Weicken , Jackie Ma , Nils Strodthoff

An optical microscopic examination of thinly cut stained tissue on glass slides prepared from a FFPE tissue blocks is the gold standard for tissue diagnostics. In addition, the diagnostic abilities and expertise of any pathologist is…

Deep learning-based image generation has seen significant advancements with diffusion models, notably improving the quality of generated images. Despite these developments, generating images with unseen characteristics beneficial for…