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Spatial Pathomics Toolkit for Quantitative Analysis of Podocyte Nuclei with Histology and Spatial Transcriptomics Data in Renal Pathology
Jiayuan Chen, Yu Wang, Ruining Deng +9
Podocytes, specialized epithelial cells that envelop the glomerular capillaries, play a pivotal role in maintaining renal health. The current description and quantification of feat…
Multi-scale Multi-site Renal Microvascular Structures Segmentation for Whole Slide Imaging in Renal Pathology
Franklin Hu, Ruining Deng, Shunxing Bao +2
Segmentation of microvascular structures, such as arterioles, venules, and capillaries, from human kidney whole slide images (WSI) has become a focal point in renal pathology. Curr…
Democratizing Pathological Image Segmentation with Lay Annotators via Molecular-empowered Learning
Ruining Deng, Yanwei Li, Peize Li +11
Multi-class cell segmentation in high-resolution Giga-pixel whole slide images (WSI) is critical for various clinical applications. Training such an AI model typically requires lab…
Segment Anything Model (SAM) for Digital Pathology: Assess Zero-shot Segmentation on Whole Slide Imaging
Ruining Deng, Can Cui, Quan Liu +13
The segment anything model (SAM) was released as a foundation model for image segmentation. The promptable segmentation model was trained by over 1 billion masks on 11M licensed an…
CircleSnake: Instance Segmentation with Circle Representation
Ethan H. Nguyen, Haichun Yang, Zuhayr Asad +3
Circle representation has recently been introduced as a medical imaging optimized representation for more effective instance object detection on ball-shaped medical objects. With i…
Compound Figure Separation of Biomedical Images: Mining Large Datasets for Self-supervised Learning
Tianyuan Yao, Chang Qu, Jun Long +13
With the rapid development of self-supervised learning (e.g., contrastive learning), the importance of having large-scale images (even without annotations) for training a more gene…
Omni-Seg: A Scale-aware Dynamic Network for Renal Pathological Image Segmentation
Ruining Deng, Quan Liu, Can Cui +9
Comprehensive semantic segmentation on renal pathological images is challenging due to the heterogeneous scales of the objects. For example, on a whole slide image (WSI), the cross…
Glo-In-One: Holistic Glomerular Detection, Segmentation, and Lesion Characterization with Large-scale Web Image Mining
Tianyuan Yao, Yuzhe Lu, Jun Long +6
The quantitative detection, segmentation, and characterization of glomeruli from high-resolution whole slide imaging (WSI) play essential roles in the computer-assisted diagnosis a…
Deep Multi-modal Fusion of Image and Non-image Data in Disease Diagnosis and Prognosis: A Review
Can Cui, Haichun Yang, Yaohong Wang +6
The rapid development of diagnostic technologies in healthcare is leading to higher requirements for physicians to handle and integrate the heterogeneous, yet complementary data th…
Survival Prediction of Brain Cancer with Incomplete Radiology, Pathology, Genomics, and Demographic Data
Can Cui, Han Liu, Quan Liu +6
Integrating cross-department multi-modal data (e.g., radiological, pathological, genomic, and clinical data) is ubiquitous in brain cancer diagnosis and survival prediction. To dat…
Holistic Fine-grained GGS Characterization: From Detection to Unbalanced Classification
Yuzhe Lu, Haichun Yang, Zuhayr Asad +5
Recent studies have demonstrated the diagnostic and prognostic values of global glomerulosclerosis (GGS) in IgA nephropathy, aging, and end-stage renal disease. However, the fine-g…
Omni-Seg: A Single Dynamic Network for Multi-label Renal Pathology Image Segmentation using Partially Labeled Data
Ruining Deng, Quan Liu, Can Cui +3
Computer-assisted quantitative analysis on Giga-pixel pathology images has provided a new avenue in histology examination. The innovations have been largely focused on cancer patho…
Circle Representation for Medical Object Detection
Ethan H. Nguyen, Haichun Yang, Ruining Deng +7
Box representation has been extensively used for object detection in computer vision. Such representation is efficacious but not necessarily optimized for biomedical objects (e.g.,…
Compound Figure Separation of Biomedical Images with Side Loss
Tianyuan Yao, Chang Qu, Quan Liu +11
Unsupervised learning algorithms (e.g., self-supervised learning, auto-encoder, contrastive learning) allow deep learning models to learn effective image representations from large…
SimTriplet: Simple Triplet Representation Learning with a Single GPU
Quan Liu, Peter C. Louis, Yuzhe Lu +9
Contrastive learning is a key technique of modern self-supervised learning. The broader accessibility of earlier approaches is hindered by the need of heavy computational resources…
BEDS: Bagging ensemble deep segmentation for nucleus segmentation with testing stage stain augmentation
Xing Li, Haichun Yang, Jiaxin He +5
Reducing outcome variance is an essential task in deep learning based medical image analysis. Bootstrap aggregating, also known as bagging, is a canonical ensemble algorithm for ag…
Improve Global Glomerulosclerosis Classification with Imbalanced Data using CircleMix Augmentation
Yuzhe Lu, Haichun Yang, Zheyu Zhu +3
The classification of glomerular lesions is a routine and essential task in renal pathology. Recently, machine learning approaches, especially deep learning algorithms, have been u…
EasierPath: An Open-source Tool for Human-in-the-loop Deep Learning of Renal Pathology
Zheyu Zhu, Yuzhe Lu, Ruining Deng +3
Considerable morphological phenotyping studies in nephrology have emerged in the past few years, aiming to discover hidden regularities between clinical and imaging phenotypes. Suc…
Instance Segmentation for Whole Slide Imaging: End-to-End or Detect-Then-Segment
Aadarsh Jha, Haichun Yang, Ruining Deng +3
Automatic instance segmentation of glomeruli within kidney Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) is essential for clinical research in renal pathology. In computer vision, the end-to-end insta…
CircleNet: Anchor-free Detection with Circle Representation
Haichun Yang, Ruining Deng, Yuzhe Lu +7
Object detection networks are powerful in computer vision, but not necessarily optimized for biomedical object detection. In this work, we propose CircleNet, a simple anchor-free d…
Map3D: Registration Based Multi-Object Tracking on 3D Serial Whole Slide Images
Ruining Deng, Haichun Yang, Aadarsh Jha +4
There has been a long pursuit for precise and reproducible glomerular quantification on renal pathology to leverage both research and practice. When digitizing the biopsy tissue sa…