Digital histology images are amenable to the application of convolutional neural network (CNN) for analysis due to the sheer size of pixel data present in them. CNNs are generally used for representation learning from small image patches (e.g. 224x224) extracted from digital histology images due to computational and me…
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Diffusion Generative Modeling for Spatially Resolved Gene Expression Inference from Histology Imagescs.CV
Stem uses diffusion models to infer gene expression from H&E images.
problem Inference of gene expression from H&E stained images is time-consuming and expensive.
method Conditional diffusion generative model to infer gene expression.
result Stem achieves state-of-the-art performance in spatial gene expression prediction.
Monte-Carlo Sampling applied to Multiple Instance Learning for Histological Image Classificationcs.CV
We propose a patch sampling strategy based on a sequential Monte-Carlo method for high resolution image classification in the context of Multiple Instance Learning. When compared with grid sampling and uniform sampling techniques, it achieves higher generalization performance. We validate the strategy on two artificial…
Semi-supervised learning chain boosts histology image accuracy with minimal labeled data.
problem Expensive annotation of large histology image databases.
method Teacher-student knowledge distillation chain approach.
result Accuracy matches 100% labeled data with only 0.5% labeled data.
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, i.e. computer-assisted diagnoses is actively researched to improve safety, quality…
Celiac Disease (CD) is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the small intestine in genetically predisposed children and adults. Gluten exposure triggers an inflammatory cascade which leads to compromised intestinal barrier function. If this enteropathy is unrecognized, this can lead to anemia, decreased bone densi…
Automatization of the diagnosis of any kind of disease is of great importance and it's gaining speed as more and more deep learning solutions are applied to different problems. One of such computer aided systems could be a decision support too able to accurately differentiate between different types of breast cancer hi…
Efficient and precise classification of histological cell nuclei is of utmost importance due to its potential applications in the field of medical image analysis. It would facilitate the medical practitioners to better understand and explore various factors for cancer treatment. The classification of histological cell …
This paper benchmarks OoDD methods for medical imaging.
problem Medical models trained for one domain may fail on images from a different domain.
method Defined 3 categories of OoD examples and benchmarked methods in 3 medical imaging domains.
result Simple binary classifier on feature representation yields best accuracy and AUPRC.
Histopathology tissue samples are widely available in two states: paraffin-embedded unstained and non-paraffin-embedded stained whole slide RGB images (WSRI). Hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is one of the principal stains in histology but suffers from several shortcomings related to tissue preparation, staining proto…
Colon Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. The treatment is planned to depend on the grade or stage of cancer. One of the preconditions for grading of colon cancer is to segment the glandular structures of tissues. Manual segmentation method is very time-consuming, and it leads to life risk for the patient…
Dropout improves MIL performance on noisy WSI classification.
problem Noisy feature embeddings and weak supervision in MIL for WSI classification.
method Empirical exploration of dropout in MIL, proposing MIL-Dropout.
result MIL-Dropout boosts MIL performance with minimal computational cost.
A deep learning approach classifies medical images hierarchically.
problem Limitations of traditional supervised classifiers in medical image classification.
method Hierarchical Medical Image Classification (HMIC) using deep learning models.
result HMIC achieved better performance in classifying medical images hierarchically.
Neural networks promise to bring robust, quantitative analysis to medical fields, but adoption is limited by the technicalities of training these networks. To address this translation gap between medical researchers and neural networks in the field of pathology, we have created an intuitive interface which utilizes the…
A new method for deep multiple instance learning using self-attention.
problem Classifying bags of instances with dependencies.
method Introducing Self-Attention-based aggregation operation for bags of instances.
result SA-AbMILP outperforms other models in various datasets.
Universally valid ground truth is almost impossible to obtain or would come at a very high cost. For supervised learning without universally valid ground truth, a recommended approach is applying crowdsourcing: Gathering a large data set annotated by multiple individuals of varying possibly expertise levels and inferri…
Automated Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Based on Gleason Grading Using Convolutional Neural Networkeess.IV
CNN-based prostate cancer grading improves accuracy and efficiency.
problem Manual Gleason grading by pathologists is time-consuming and prone to errors.
method Patch-Based Image Reconstruction (PBIR), Distribution Correction (DC), Quadratic Weighted Mean Square Error (QWMSE).
result Achieved superior expert-level performance (0.8885 quadratic-weighted kappa coefficient).
Aim: To review how machine learning (ML) is applied to imaging biomarkers in neuro-oncology, in particular for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response monitoring. Materials and Methods: The PubMed and MEDLINE databases were searched for articles published before September 2018 using relevant search terms. The sear…
Due to advances in sensors, growing large and complex medical image data have the ability to visualize the pathological change in the cellular or even the molecular level or anatomical changes in tissues and organs. As a consequence, the medical images have the potential to enhance diagnosis of disease, prediction of c…
Spectral decoupling improves neural network generalization in medical imaging.
problem Poor generalization of neural networks trained on medical imaging data.
method Spectral decoupling, a regularization technique that encourages learning more features.
result Spectral decoupling increases network robustness and performance on external datasets.
Nuclear segmentation in histology images is a challenging task due to significant variations in the shape and appearance of nuclei. One of the main hurdles in nuclear instance segmentation is overlapping nuclei where a smart algorithm is needed to separate each nucleus. In this paper, we introduce a proposal-free deep …
Towards Unsupervised Cancer Subtyping: Predicting Prognosis Using A Histologic Visual Dictionarycs.CV
Unlike common cancers, such as those of the prostate and breast, tumor grading in rare cancers is difficult and largely undefined because of small sample sizes, the sheer volume of time needed to undertake on such a task, and the inherent difficulty of extracting human-observed patterns. One of the most challenging exa…
Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies, with different degrees of aggressiveness, variable prognosis and various heterogeneous histologic sub-regions, i.e., peritumoral edematous/invaded tissue, necrotic core, active and non-enhancing core. This intrinsic heterogeneity is also portrayed in their radio-p…
A benchmark evaluates ioUS-to-MR synthesis methods for brain tumor surgery.
problem Difficult interpretation of ioUS images for brain tumor surgery.
method Six generators trained under four inference regimes and two targets on public data.
result SynDiff-2.5D best preserved downstream segmentation (U_Dice=0.55).
Unified framework for linear attribution methods in deep learning.
problem Separate theoretical foundations of XAI attribution methods.
method GRALIS (Gradient-Riesz Averaged Locally-Integrated Shapley) framework.
result Unified representation theory for linear attribution methods.
WILDS 2.0 expands benchmark datasets for unsupervised adaptation.
problem Leveraging unlabeled data for distribution shifts in real-world applications.
method Curated unlabeled data across various applications, tasks, and modalities.
result State-of-the-art methods perform poorly on WILDS datasets.
Machine learning is bringing a paradigm shift to healthcare by changing the process of disease diagnosis and prognosis in clinics and hospitals. This development equips doctors and medical staff with tools to evaluate their hypotheses and hence make more precise decisions. Although most current research in the literatu…
EAGLE-Net enhances foundation models by integrating patch-level features for better tissue understanding.
problem Foundation models lack mechanisms for global tissue structure and local context in computational pathology.
method EAGLE-Net combines multi-scale spatial encoding, attention-guided loss functions, and background suppression to aggregate patch-level features into slide-level predictions.
result EAGLE-Net improves classification accuracy and concordance indices across multiple cancer types, producing biologically coherent attention maps.
Background and Purpose: Biopsy is the main determinants of glioma clinical management, but require invasive sampling that fail to detect relevant features because of tumor heterogeneity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of a voxel-wise, multiparametric MRI radiomic method to predict features and d…
Method predicts ODX scores for breast cancer patients based on clinical data.
problem Predicting ODX scores for breast cancer patients to aid decision-making.
method Distributional random forest approach using 9 clinico-pathological characteristics.
result Correctly predicted 92% of low risk and 40.2% of high risk patients.
CatSIM measures image similarity robustly to small changes.
problem Measuring similarity between images, especially with small perturbations.
method Uses structural similarity image quality paradigm, robust to small location changes.
result Structural similarity between images rated higher when not entirely overlapping.
Develops statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression models.
problem Current image-to-image regression models lack statistical guarantees for model mistakes and hallucinations.
method Uncertainty quantification techniques with rigorous statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression problems.
result Derives uncertainty intervals around each pixel with formal mathematical guarantees.
AugurOne trains single image generators without GANs using image warps.
problem Training end-to-end single image generators without GANs.
method Non-affine augmentations of single input images for training an upscaling neural network.
result End-to-end training yields state-of-the-art performance on conditional generation tasks.
Transmission imaging, as an important imaging technique widely used in astronomy, medical diagnosis, and biology science, has been shown in [49] quite different from reflection imaging used in our everyday life. Understanding the structures of images (the prior information) is important for designing, testing, and choo…
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
problem Comparing medical images for distribution or domain differences.
method Developed a new metric FRD using standardized radiomic features.
result FRD outperforms other metrics in various medical imaging applications.
This study investigates how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
problem Quantifying how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
method Proposes a framework to quantify knowledge gain by a particular layer, conducts empirical investigation in pathology image centered transfer learning.
result Early layers of deep models can transfer knowledge to pathology image classification tasks.
Generates high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.
problem Generating realistic images from low-resolution inputs.
method Latent Adversarial Generator (LAG) using perceptual loss.
result Samples of high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.
Computational ghost imaging is an imaging technique in which an object is imaged from light collected using a single-pixel detector with no spatial resolution. Recently, ghost cytometry has been proposed for a high-speed cell-classification method that involves ghost imaging and machine learning in flow cytometry. Ghos…
We study the theoretical properties of image denoising via total variation penalized least-squares. We define the total vatiation in terms of the two-dimensional total discrete derivative of the image and show that it gives rise to denoised images that are piecewise constant on rectangular sets. We prove that, if the t…
Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…
Latent feature models are attractive for image modeling, since images generally contain multiple objects. However, many latent feature models ignore that objects can appear at different locations or require pre-segmentation of images. While the transformed Indian buffet process (tIBP) provides a method for modeling tra…
A Set-Theoretic Study of the Relationships of Image Models and Priors for Restoration Problemseess.IV
The paper analyzes relationships between various image models for restoration.
problem Unclear relationships among popular image models for restoration.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental study of image models.
result Improved denoising performance by combining multiple image models.
StrokeCoder uses Transformers to generate images from single examples.
problem Creating diverse images from a single example.
method Transformer Neural Network learns from a single path-based example to generate a set of images.
result The model can generate a large set of deviated images that still represent the original image's style and concept.
Improved self-supervised learning for document images.
problem Performance of self-supervised pre-training on document images is poor.
method Proposed context-aware alternatives and a novel multi-modal method.
result Novel method outperforms other self-supervised methods on document image classification.
Generative Synthetic Augmentation using Label-to-Image Translation for Nuclei Image Segmentationcs.LG
This paper proposes synthetic augmentation for nuclei image segmentation in medical pathology.
problem Rare and time-consuming labeling of tumor nuclei images for semantic segmentation.
method Label-to-image translation to generate synthetic images.
result Synthetic augmentation improves segmentation accuracy.
Synthesizing images of the eye fundus is a challenging task that has been previously approached by formulating complex models of the anatomy of the eye. New images can then be generated by sampling a suitable parameter space. In this work, we propose a method that learns to synthesize eye fundus images directly from da…
OTRE uses OT to improve retinal images, outperforming existing methods.
problem Improving quality of non-mydriatic retinal images for accurate diagnoses.
method OT theory for image-to-image translation, regularization by enhancing.
result OTRE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various retinal image tasks.
Method screens similar capsule endoscopic images, reducing doctor workload and improving accuracy.
problem Time-consuming and high error rate in manual inspection of large numbers of similar capsule endoscopic images.
method Structural similarity analysis of visually salient areas and hierarchical clustering.
result 76% reduction in similar images, 100% lesion recall, 18-minute average play time.