English
Related papers

Related papers: WBCAtt+: Fine-Grained Pixel-Level Morphological An…

200 papers

The automatic detection of White Blood Cells (WBC) still remains as an unsolved issue in medical imaging. The analysis of WBC images has engaged researchers from fields of medicine and computer vision alike. Since WBC can be approximated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-30 Erik Cuevas , Margarita Diaz , Miguel Manzanares , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

Pixel-level analysis of blood images plays a pivotal role in diagnosing blood-related diseases, especially Anaemia. These analyses mainly rely on an accurate diagnosis of morphological deformities like shape, size, and precise pixel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Muhammad Shahzad , Arif Iqbal Umar , Syed Hamad Shirazi , Israr Ahmed Shaikh

The diagnosis of blood-based diseases often involves identifying and characterizing patient blood samples. Automated methods to detect and classify blood cell subtypes have important medical applications. Automated medical image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sai Sukruth Bezugam

Label-free single-cell imaging offers a scalable, non-invasive alternative to fluorescence-based cytometry, yet inferring molecular phenotypes directly from bright-field morphology remains challenging. We present a unified Deep Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Saqib Nazir , Ardhendu Behera

Leukemia (blood cancer) is an unusual spread of White Blood Cells or Leukocytes (WBCs) in the bone marrow and blood. Pathologists can diagnose leukemia by looking at a person's blood sample under a microscope. They identify and categorize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Mohammad Zolfaghari , Hedieh Sajedi

We present WBCBench 2026, an ISBI challenge and benchmark for automated WBC classification designed to stress-test algorithms under three key difficulties: (i) severe class imbalance across 13 morphologically fine-grained WBC classes, (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xin Tian , Xudong Ma , Tianqi Yang , Alin Achim , Bartłomiej W Papież , Phandee Watanaboonyongcharoen , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Automated white blood cell (WBC) classification is essential for leukemia screening but remains challenged by extreme class imbalance, long-tail distributions, and domain shift, leading deep models to overfit dominant classes and fail on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Duc T. Nguyen , Hoang-Long Nguyen , Huy-Hieu Pham

Automated white blood cell (WBC) classification is essential for scalable leukaemia screening. However, real-world deployment is challenged by domain shifts caused by staining protocols, scanner characteristics, and inter-laboratory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ruyi Dai , Tingkwong Ng , Hao Chen

Recently, a lot of automated white blood cells (WBC) or leukocyte classification techniques have been developed. However, all of these methods only utilize a single modality microscopic image i.e. either blood smear or fluorescence based,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Litao Yang , Deval Mehta , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Zongyuan Ge

Anterior uveitis is the most common form of intraocular inflammation, and one of its main signs is the presence of white blood cells (WBCs) in the anterior chamber (AC). Clinically, the true composition of cells can currently only be…

The detection and segmentation of white blood cells in blood smear images is a key step in medical diagnostics, supporting various downstream tasks such as automated blood cell counting, morphological analysis, cell classification, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Deutges , Chen Yang , Raheleh Salehi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Identification of abnormalities in red blood cells (RBC) is key to diagnosing a range of medical conditions from anaemia to liver disease. Currently this is done manually, a time-consuming and subjective process. This paper presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Annika Wong , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Thanarat H. Chalidabhongse , Duangdao Palasuwan , Attakorn Palasuwan , David Bull

Medical image annotation is essential for diagnosing diseases, yet manual annotation is time-consuming, costly, and prone to variability among experts. To address these challenges, we propose an automated explainable annotation system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Basma Nasir , Tehseen Zia , Muhammad Nawaz , Catarina Moreira

Diagnosis of hematological malignancies depends on accurate identification of white blood cells in peripheral blood smears. Deep learning techniques are emerging as a viable solution to scale and optimize this process by automatic cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Michael Deutges , Ario Sadafi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

Accurately classifying white blood cells from microscopic images is essential to identify several illnesses and conditions in medical diagnostics. Many deep learning technologies are being employed to quickly and automatically classify…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Tatwadarshi P. Nagarhalli , Shruti S. Pawar , Soham A. Dahanukar , Uday Aswalekar , Ashwini M. Save , Sanket D. Patil

Biomedical imaging and RNA sequencing with single-cell resolution improves our understanding of white blood cell diseases like leukemia. By combining morphological and transcriptomic data, we can gain insights into cellular functions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Gizem Mert , Ario Sadafi , Raheleh Salehi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

Accurate morphological classification of white blood cells (WBCs) is an important step in the diagnosis of leukemia, a disease in which nonfunctional blast cells accumulate in the bone marrow. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rao Muhammad Umer , Armin Gruber , Sayedali Shetab Boushehri , Christian Metak , Carsten Marr

Circulating blood cell clusters (CCCs) containing red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells(WBCs), and platelets are significant biomarkers linked to conditions like thrombosis, infection, and inflammation. Flow cytometry, paired with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Suqiang Ma , Subhadeep Sengupta , Yao Lee , Beikang Gu , Xianyan Chen , Xianqiao Wang , Yang Liu , Mengjia Xu , Galit H. Frydman , He Li

Diagnosing basal cell carcinomas (BCC), one of the most common cutaneous malignancies in humans, is a task regularly performed by pathologists and dermato-pathologists. Improving histological diagnosis by providing diagnosis suggestions,…

Reliable classification and detection of certain medical conditions, in images, with state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, require vast amounts of pixel-wise annotation. However, the public availability of such datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Erik Ostrowski , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Muhammad Shafique