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Histopathologic diagnosis relies on simultaneous integration of information from a broad range of scales, ranging from nuclear aberrations ($\approx \mathcal{O}(0.1{\mu m})$) through cellular structures ($\approx \mathcal{O}(10{\mu m})$) to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Rüdiger Schmitz , Frederic Madesta , Maximilian Nielsen , Jenny Krause , René Werner , Thomas Rösch

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for computational pathology, offering unprecedented opportunities to integrate pathological images with language context for comprehensive diagnostic analysis. These…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Zhe Xu , Ziyi Liu , Junlin Hou , Jiabo Ma , Cheng Jin , Yihui Wang , Zhixuan Chen , Zhengyu Zhang , Fuxiang Huang , Zhengrui Guo , Fengtao Zhou , Yingxue Xu , Xi Wang , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Li Liang , Hao Chen

Zero-shot learning holds tremendous potential for histopathology image analysis by enabling models to generalize to unseen classes without extensive labeled data. Recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) have expanded the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Md Mamunur Rahaman , Ewan K. A. Millar , Erik Meijering

Vision Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have attracted substantial attention in pathology, serving as backbones for applications such as zero-shot image classification and Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis. Additionally, they can function as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yuxuan Sun , Yunlong Zhang , Yixuan Si , Chenglu Zhu , Zhongyi Shui , Kai Zhang , Jingxiong Li , Xingheng Lyu , Tao Lin , Lin Yang

Self-supervised representation learning has been highly promising for histopathology image analysis with numerous approaches leveraging their patient-slide-patch hierarchy to learn better representations. In this paper, we explore how the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hasindri Watawana , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Tariq Mahmood , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Survival prediction using whole-slide images (WSIs) is crucial in cancer re-search. Despite notable success, existing approaches are limited by their reliance on sparse slide-level labels, which hinders the learning of discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaqi Cui , Lu Wen , Yuchen Fei , Bo Liu , Luping Zhou , Dinggang Shen , Yan Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are advancing computational pathology with superior visual understanding capabilities. However, current systems often reduce diagnosis to directly output conclusions without verifiable evidence-linked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Songhan Jiang , Fengchun Liu , Ziyue Wang , Linghan Cai , Yongbing Zhang

This paper proposes Comprehensive Pathology Language Image Pre-training (CPLIP), a new unsupervised technique designed to enhance the alignment of images and text in histopathology for tasks such as classification and segmentation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun

Automated blood vessel segmentation is vital for biomedical imaging, as vessel changes indicate many pathologies. Still, precise segmentation is difficult due to the complexity of vascular structures, anatomical variations across patients,…

Computational pathology demands both visual pattern recognition and dynamic integration of structured domain knowledge, including taxonomy, grading criteria, and clinical evidence. In practice, diagnostic reasoning requires linking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jinyue Li , Yuci Liang , Qiankun Li , Xinheng Lyu , Jiayu Qian , Huabao Chen , Kun Wang , Zhigang Zeng , Anil Anthony Bharath , Yang Liu

AI tools in pathology have improved screening throughput, standardized quantification, and revealed prognostic patterns that inform treatment. However, adoption remains limited because most systems still lack the human-readable reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yunqi Hong , Johnson Kao , Liam Edwards , Nein-Tzu Liu , Chung-Yen Huang , Alex Oliveira-Kowaleski , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Neil Y. C. Lin

Automated pathology report generation from Whole Slide Images (WSIs) faces two key challenges: (1) lack of semantic content in visual features and (2) inherent information redundancy in WSIs. To address these issues, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ling Zhang , Boxiang Yun , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

Accurate understanding of anatomical structures is essential for reliably staging certain dental diseases. A way of introducing this within semantic segmentation models is by utilising hierarchy-aware methodologies. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ryan Banks , Camila Lindoni Azevedo , Hongying Tang , Yunpeng Li

While end-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, fine-tuning them on narrow control data often compromises the profound reasoning capabilities inherited from their base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianshuo Yang , Guanyu Chen , Yutian Chen , Zhixuan Liang , Yitian Liu , Zanxin Chen , Chunpu Xu , Haotian Liang , Jiangmiao Pang , Yao Mu , Ping Luo

Vision-language models (VLMs) can couple visual perception with open-ended clinical reasoning, making them attractive for computational histopathology. However, fine-tuning billions of parameters on scarce, expert-annotated pathology data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Franciskus Xaverius Erick , Johanna Paula Müller , Bernhard Kainz

In this paper, we consider the problem of visual representation learning for computational pathology, by exploiting large-scale image-text pairs gathered from public resources, along with the domain-specific knowledge in pathology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xiao Zhou , Xiaoman Zhang , Chaoyi Wu , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie , Yanfeng Wang

Whole slide pathology image classification presents challenges due to gigapixel image sizes and limited annotation labels, hindering model generalization. This paper introduces a prompt learning method to adapt large vision-language models…

In the field of computational histopathology, both whole slide images (WSIs) and diagnostic captions provide valuable insights for making diagnostic decisions. However, aligning WSIs with diagnostic captions presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qifeng Zhou , Wenliang Zhong , Yuzhi Guo , Michael Xiao , Hehuan Ma , Junzhou Huang

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

Effectively medication recommendation with complex multimorbidity conditions is a critical task in healthcare. Most existing works predicted medications based on longitudinal records, which assumed the information transmitted patterns of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Sicen Liu , Xiaolong Wang , JIngcheng Du , Yongshuai Hou , Xianbing Zhao , Hui Xu , Hui Wang , Yang Xiang , Buzhou Tang