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Whole-slide images (WSIs) are an important data modality in computational pathology, yet their gigapixel resolution and lack of fine-grained annotations challenge conventional deep learning models. Multiple instance learning (MIL) offers a…

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Multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as a popular method for classifying histopathology whole slide images (WSIs). Existing approaches typically rely on frozen pre-trained models to extract instance features, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yi Lin , Zhengjie Zhu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a powerful tool to solve the weakly supervised classification in whole slide image (WSI) based pathology diagnosis. However, the current MIL methods are usually based on independent and identical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhuchen Shao , Hao Bian , Yang Chen , Yifeng Wang , Jian Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Yongbing Zhang

Various multi-instance learning (MIL) based approaches have been developed and successfully applied to whole-slide pathological images (WSI). Existing MIL methods emphasize the importance of feature aggregators, but largely neglect the…

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Computational pathology and whole-slide image (WSI) analysis are pivotal in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, the ultra-high resolution of WSIs presents significant modeling challenges. Recent advancements in pathology foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Honglin Li , Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

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

Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology. Yet, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often acquired at gigapixel sizes, rendering them computationally infeasible to analyze entirely at high resolution. Diagnostic…

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Joint analysis of multiple biomarker images and tissue morphology is important for disease diagnosis, treatment planning and drug development. It requires cross-staining comparison among Whole Slide Images (WSIs) of immuno-histochemical and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Abubakr Shafique , Morteza Babaie , Mahjabin Sajadi , Adrian Batten , Soma Skdar , H. R. Tizhoosh

The advancement of digital pathology, particularly through computational analysis of whole slide images (WSI), is poised to significantly enhance diagnostic precision and efficiency. However, the large size and complexity of WSIs make it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Ravi Kant Gupta , Dadi Dharani , Shambhavi Shanker , Amit Sethi

Representation learning of pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) has been has primarily relied on weak supervision with Multiple Instance Learning (MIL). However, the slide representations resulting from this approach are highly tailored to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Andrew H. Song , Richard J. Chen , Tong Ding , Drew F. K. Williamson , Guillaume Jaume , Faisal Mahmood

In this paper, we address domain shifts in pathological images by focusing on shifts within whole slide images~(WSIs), such as patient characteristics and tissue thickness, rather than shifts between hospitals. Traditional approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yuki Shigeyasu , Shota Harada , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Kazuhiro Terada , Naoki Nakazima , Mariyo Kurata , Hiroyuki Abe , Tetsuo Ushiku , Ryoma Bise

Breast cancer has the highest mortality among cancers in women. Computer-aided pathology to analyze microscopic histopathology images for diagnosis with an increasing number of breast cancer patients can bring the cost and delays of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Abhijeet Patil , Dipesh Tamboli , Swati Meena , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Digital pathology archives increasingly contain multiple whole-slide images (WSIs) per case, capturing spatially distinct tumour regions and reflecting intrinsic morphological heterogeneity. However, most existing approaches rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zahra Rahimi Afzal , Wataru Uegami , Saghir Alfasly , Saba Yasir , Judy C. Boughey , Matthew P. Goetz , Krishna R. Kalari , H. R. Tizhoosh

Deep learning models have revolutionized the field of medical image analysis, due to their outstanding performances. However, they are sensitive to spurious correlations, often taking advantage of dataset bias to improve results for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Diogo J. Araújo , M. Rita Verdelho , Alceu Bissoto , Jacinto C. Nascimento , Carlos Santiago , Catarina Barata

Patching gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is an important task in computational pathology. Some methods have been proposed to select a subset of patches as WSI representation for downstream tasks. While most of the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Peyman Nejat , Areej Alsaafin , Ghazal Alabtah , Nneka Comfere , Aaron Mangold , Dennis Murphree , Patricija Zot , Saba Yasir , Joaquin J. Garcia , H. R. Tizhoosh

The rapidly emerging field of computational pathology has the potential to enable objective diagnosis, therapeutic response prediction and identification of new morphological features of clinical relevance. However, deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Ming Y. Lu , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Richard J. Chen , Matteo Barbieri , Faisal Mahmood

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks. However, to recognize cancer subtypes automatically, training a CNN on gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Tissue Images (WSI) is currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Le Hou , Dimitris Samaras , Tahsin M. Kurc , Yi Gao , James E. Davis , Joel H. Saltz

Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification is often formulated as a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) problem. Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in WSI classification. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hao Li , Ying Chen , Yifei Chen , Wenxian Yang , Bowen Ding , Yuchen Han , Liansheng Wang , Rongshan Yu

Interpreting machine learning model decisions is crucial for high-risk applications like healthcare. In digital pathology, large whole slide images (WSIs) are decomposed into smaller tiles and tile-derived features are processed by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Tomé Albuquerque , Anil Yüce , Markus D. Herrmann , Alvaro Gomariz

Labelling tissue components in histology whole slide images (WSIs) is prohibitively labour-intensive: a single slide may contain tens of thousands of structures--cells, nuclei, and other morphologically distinct objects--each requiring…

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