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most citedWeakly Supervised Cell Instance Segmentation by Propagating from Detection Response

8 citations · 17 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

eess.IV2026

Exploring the Latent Structure of AMD Severity Using Retinal Foundation Models

Niccolò Fineschi, Jovana Panic, Atsushi Watanabe +7

Retinal foundation models have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of ophthalmic tasks, yet relatively little is known about how disease-related information is repr…

cs.CV2026

Preserving DEG Rankings for Gene Discovery in Histology-Based Spatial Gene Expression Prediction

Kaito Shiku, Kazuya Nishimura, Yasuhiro Kojima +1

Predicting spatial gene expression from histology images could scale spatial transcriptomics (ST) to image-only cohorts, but conventional histology-based ST prediction is trained a…

cs.CV2026

GC-MoE: Genomics-Guided Cell-Type-Specific Mixture of Experts for Histology-Based Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics

Kaito Shiku, Ahtisham Fazeel Abbasi, Ryoma Bise +4

Histology-based single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) estimation aims to predict gene expression for individual cells from histopathological images and cell locations, reducing…

cs.CV2026

Leveraging Cell-level Spatial Transcriptomics as Weak Supervision for Nuclei Classification

Kazuya Nishimura, Ryoma Bise, Haruka Hirose +1

Deep learning-based nuclei analysis in histopathology relies heavily on large-scale, expert-curated datasets that are costly and difficult to scale across organs. To address this,…

cs.CV2026

FDIF: Formula-Driven supervised Learning with Implicit Functions for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Yukinori Yamamoto, Kazuya Nishimura, Tsukasa Fukusato +3

Deep learning-based 3D medical image segmentation methods relies on large-scale labeled datasets, yet acquiring such data is difficult due to privacy constraints and the high cost…

cs.CV2026

Cell-Type Prototype-Informed Neural Network for Gene Expression Estimation from Pathology Images

Kazuya Nishimura, Ryoma Bise, Shinnosuke Matsuo +2

Estimating slide- and patch-level gene expression profiles from pathology images enables rapid and low-cost molecular analysis with broad clinical impact. Despite strong results, e…

cs.CV2025

Learning Relative Gene Expression Trends from Pathology Images in Spatial Transcriptomics

Kazuya Nishimura, Haruka Hirose, Ryoma Bise +2

Gene expression estimation from pathology images has the potential to reduce the RNA sequencing cost. Point-wise loss functions have been widely used to minimize the discrepancy be…

cs.LG2025

Auxiliary Gene Learning: Spatial Gene Expression Estimation by Auxiliary Gene Selection

Kaito Shiku, Kazuya Nishimura, Shinnosuke Matsuo +2

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a novel technology that enables the observation of gene expression at the resolution of individual spots within pathological tissues. ST quantifies…

cs.CV2025

Towards Spatial Transcriptomics-guided Pathological Image Recognition with Batch-Agnostic Encoder

Kazuya Nishimura, Ryoma Bise, Yasuhiro Kojima

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a novel technique that simultaneously captures pathological images and gene expression profiling with spatial coordinates. Since ST is closely relat…

cs.CV2024

Ordinal Multiple-instance Learning for Ulcerative Colitis Severity Estimation with Selective Aggregated Transformer

Kaito Shiku, Kazuya Nishimura, Daiki Suehiro +2

Patient-level diagnosis of severity in ulcerative colitis (UC) is common in real clinical settings, where the most severe score in a patient is recorded. However, previous UC class…

cs.CV2024

Proportion Estimation by Masked Learning from Label Proportion

Takumi Okuo, Kazuya Nishimura, Hiroaki Ito +3

The PD-L1 rate, the number of PD-L1 positive tumor cells over the total number of all tumor cells, is an important metric for immunotherapy. This metric is recorded as diagnostic i…

cs.CV2023

Mitosis Detection from Partial Annotation by Dataset Generation via Frame-Order Flipping

Kazuya Nishimura, Ami Katanaya, Shinichiro Chuma +1

Detection of mitosis events plays an important role in biomedical research. Deep-learning-based mitosis detection methods have achieved outstanding performance with a certain amoun…

cs.CV2023

Effective Pseudo-Labeling based on Heatmap for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Cell Detection

Hyeonwoo Cho, Kazuya Nishimura, Kazuhide Watanabe +1

Cell detection is an important task in biomedical research. Recently, deep learning methods have made it possible to improve the performance of cell detection. However, a detection…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Cell Detection from Imperfect Annotation by Pseudo Label Selection Using P-classification

Kazuma Fujii, Daiki Suehiro, Kazuya Nishimura +1

Cell detection is an essential task in cell image analysis. Recent deep learning-based detection methods have achieved very promising results. In general, these methods require exh…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Cell Detection in Domain Shift Problem Using Pseudo-Cell-Position Heatmap

Hyeonwoo Cho, Kazuya Nishimura, Kazuhide Watanabe +1

The domain shift problem is an important issue in automatic cell detection. A detection network trained with training data under a specific condition (source domain) may not work w…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Semi-supervised Cell Detection in Time-lapse Images Using Temporal Consistency

Kazuya Nishimura, Hyeonwoo Cho, Ryoma Bise

Cell detection is the task of detecting the approximate positions of cell centroids from microscopy images. Recently, convolutional neural network-based approaches have achieved pr…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Weakly-Supervised Cell Tracking via Backward-and-Forward Propagation

Kazuya Nishimura, Junya Hayashida, Chenyang Wang +2

We propose a weakly-supervised cell tracking method that can train a convolutional neural network (CNN) by using only the annotation of "cell detection" (i.e., the coordinates of c…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Spatial-Temporal Mitosis Detection in Phase-Contrast Microscopy via Likelihood Map Estimation by 3DCNN

Kazuya Nishimura, Ryoma Bise

Automated mitotic detection in time-lapse phasecontrast microscopy provides us much information for cell behavior analysis, and thus several mitosis detection methods have been pro…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

MPM: Joint Representation of Motion and Position Map for Cell Tracking

Junya Hayashida, Kazuya Nishimura, Ryoma Bise

Conventional cell tracking methods detect multiple cells in each frame (detection) and then associate the detection results in successive time-frames (association). Most cell track…

eess.IV2019★ 8 cited

Weakly Supervised Cell Instance Segmentation by Propagating from Detection Response

Kazuya Nishimura, Dai Fei Elmer Ker, Ryoma Bise

Cell shape analysis is important in biomedical research. Deep learning methods may perform to segment individual cells if they use sufficient training data that the boundary of eac…