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most citedDeep Learning-based Computational Pathology Predicts Origins for Cancers of Unknown Primary

645 citations · 1.1k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

q-bio.QM2026

Sparse concept attribution for histomorphological hypothesis generation from whole-slide classifiers

Tristan Lazard, Kenza Bouzid, Julius Hense +6

Histology images contain rich morphological information and can provide insights into pathological processes. However, deriving hypotheses relating morphological phenotypes to clin…

cs.CL2025

NOVA: An Agentic Framework for Automated Histopathology Analysis and Discovery

Anurag J. Vaidya, Felix Meissen, Daniel C. Castro +7

Digitized histopathology analysis involves complex, time-intensive workflows and specialized expertise, limiting its accessibility. We introduce NOVA, an agentic framework that tra…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Evidence-based diagnostic reasoning with multi-agent copilot for human pathology

Luca L. Weishaupt, Chengkuan Chen, Drew F. K. Williamson +8

Pathology is experiencing rapid digital transformation driven by whole-slide imaging and artificial intelligence (AI). While deep learning-based computational pathology has achieve…

cs.CV2025★ 6 cited

AI-driven 3D Spatial Transcriptomics

Cristina Almagro-Pérez, Andrew H. Song, Luca Weishaupt +13

A comprehensive three-dimensional (3D) map of tissue architecture and gene expression is crucial for illuminating the complexity and heterogeneity of tissues across diverse biomedi…

eess.IV2024★ 26 cited

Multimodal Whole Slide Foundation Model for Pathology

Tong Ding, Sophia J. Wagner, Andrew H. Song +20

The field of computational pathology has been transformed with recent advances in foundation models that encode histopathology region-of-interests (ROIs) into versatile and transfe…

cs.CV2024★ 22 cited

HEST-1k: A Dataset for Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis

Guillaume Jaume, Paul Doucet, Andrew H. Song +8

Spatial transcriptomics enables interrogating the molecular composition of tissue with ever-increasing resolution and sensitivity. However, costs, rapidly evolving technology, and…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Morphological Prototyping for Unsupervised Slide Representation Learning in Computational Pathology

Andrew H. Song, Richard J. Chen, Tong Ding +3

Representation learning of pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) has been has primarily relied on weak supervision with Multiple Instance Learning (MIL). However, the slide represent…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Transcriptomics-guided Slide Representation Learning in Computational Pathology

Guillaume Jaume, Lukas Oldenburg, Anurag Vaidya +5

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been successful in building patch embeddings of small histology images (e.g., 224x224 pixels), but scaling these models to learn slide embeddings…

eess.IV2023★ 334 cited

Artificial Intelligence for Digital and Computational Pathology

Andrew H. Song, Guillaume Jaume, Drew F. K. Williamson +4

Advances in digitizing tissue slides and the fast-paced progress in artificial intelligence, including deep learning, have boosted the field of computational pathology. This field…

cs.CV2023★ 15 cited

A Foundational Multimodal Vision Language AI Assistant for Human Pathology

Ming Y. Lu, Bowen Chen, Drew F. K. Williamson +8

The field of computational pathology has witnessed remarkable progress in the development of both task-specific predictive models and task-agnostic self-supervised vision encoders.…

cs.CV2023★ 8 cited

A General-Purpose Self-Supervised Model for Computational Pathology

Richard J. Chen, Tong Ding, Ming Y. Lu +17

Tissue phenotyping is a fundamental computational pathology (CPath) task in learning objective characterizations of histopathologic biomarkers in anatomic pathology. However, whole…

eess.IV2023★ 4 cited

Weakly Supervised AI for Efficient Analysis of 3D Pathology Samples

Andrew H. Song, Mane Williams, Drew F. K. Williamson +8

Human tissue and its constituent cells form a microenvironment that is fundamentally three-dimensional (3D). However, the standard-of-care in pathologic diagnosis involves selectin…

cs.CV2023★ 18 cited

Towards a Visual-Language Foundation Model for Computational Pathology

Ming Y. Lu, Bowen Chen, Drew F. K. Williamson +10

The accelerated adoption of digital pathology and advances in deep learning have enabled the development of powerful models for various pathology tasks across a diverse array of di…

cs.CV2023★ 10 cited

Visual Language Pretrained Multiple Instance Zero-Shot Transfer for Histopathology Images

Ming Y. Lu, Bowen Chen, Andrew Zhang +6

Contrastive visual language pretraining has emerged as a powerful method for either training new language-aware image encoders or augmenting existing pretrained models with zero-sh…

cs.CV2023★ 10 cited

Modeling Dense Multimodal Interactions Between Biological Pathways and Histology for Survival Prediction

Guillaume Jaume, Anurag Vaidya, Richard Chen +3

Integrating whole-slide images (WSIs) and bulk transcriptomics for predicting patient survival can improve our understanding of patient prognosis. However, this multimodal task is…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

Incorporating intratumoral heterogeneity into weakly-supervised deep learning models via variance pooling

Iain Carmichael, Andrew H. Song, Richard J. Chen +3

Supervised learning tasks such as cancer survival prediction from gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) are a critical challenge in computational pathology that requires modeling com…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Differentiable Zooming for Multiple Instance Learning on Whole-Slide Images

Kevin Thandiackal, Boqi Chen, Pushpak Pati +4

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) methods have become increasingly popular for classifying giga-pixel sized Whole-Slide Images (WSIs) in digital pathology. Most MIL methods operate…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Algorithm Fairness in AI for Medicine and Healthcare

Richard J. Chen, Tiffany Y. Chen, Jana Lipkova +5

In the current development and deployment of many artificial intelligence (AI) systems in healthcare, algorithm fairness is a challenging problem in delivering equitable care. Rece…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Pan-Cancer Integrative Histology-Genomic Analysis via Interpretable Multimodal Deep Learning

Richard J. Chen, Ming Y. Lu, Drew F. K. Williamson +8

The rapidly emerging field of deep learning-based computational pathology has demonstrated promise in developing objective prognostic models from histology whole slide images. Howe…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Fast and Scalable Image Search For Histology

Chengkuan Chen, Ming Y. Lu, Drew F. K. Williamson +3

The expanding adoption of digital pathology has enabled the curation of large repositories of histology whole slide images (WSIs), which contain a wealth of information. Similar pa…

eess.IV2021★ 3 cited

Whole Slide Images are 2D Point Clouds: Context-Aware Survival Prediction using Patch-based Graph Convolutional Networks

Richard J. Chen, Ming Y. Lu, Muhammad Shaban +4

Cancer prognostication is a challenging task in computational pathology that requires context-aware representations of histology features to adequately infer patient survival. Desp…

eess.IV2021

Deep Learning-based Frozen Section to FFPE Translation

Kutsev Bengisu Ozyoruk, Sermet Can, Guliz Irem Gokceler +12

Frozen sectioning (FS) is the preparation method of choice for microscopic evaluation of tissues during surgical operations. The high speed of the procedure allows pathologists to…

eess.IV2020★ 1 cited

Federated Learning for Computational Pathology on Gigapixel Whole Slide Images

Ming Y. Lu, Dehan Kong, Jana Lipkova +5

Deep Learning-based computational pathology algorithms have demonstrated profound ability to excel in a wide array of tasks that range from characterization of well known morpholog…

q-bio.TO2020★ 645 cited

Deep Learning-based Computational Pathology Predicts Origins for Cancers of Unknown Primary

Ming Y. Lu, Melissa Zhao, Maha Shady +4

Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is an enigmatic group of diagnoses where the primary anatomical site of tumor origin cannot be determined. This poses a significant challenge since…