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most citedMitosis domain generalization in histopathology images -- The MIDOG challenge

162 citations · 488 across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.AI2026

AI-assisted mitotic counting improves reproducibility and efficiency across multiple tumour types

Simon Graham, Mostafa Jahanifar, Quoc Dang Vu +15

Mitotic counting is an important component of tumour grading, diagnosis and prognostic assessment across several tumour types, but manual assessment is time-consuming and subject t…

cs.CV2026

MiTHras: Task-specific Hierarchical Semi-supervised Contrastive Masked Autoencoder for Mitotic Figure Analysis

Trinh T. L. Vuong, Simon Graham, Quoc Dang Vu +5

Mitotic figure (MF) analysis supports tumor grading and prognostic assessment, but automated models remain sensitive to differences in tissue type and image acquisition. We present…

cs.CY2026

Potential Role of Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Toxicologic Pathology

Nasir Rajpoot, Richard Haworth, Xavier Palazzi +14

As the volume and complexity of nonclinical toxicology studies continue to increase, toxicologic pathology reporting faces persistent challenges, including fragmented sources of da…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

KongNet: A Multi-headed Deep Learning Model for Detection and Classification of Nuclei in Histopathology Images

Jiaqi Lv, Esha Sadia Nasir, Kesi Xu +4

Accurate detection and classification of nuclei in histopathology images are critical for diagnostic and research applications. We present KongNet, a multi-headed deep learning arc…

eess.IV2025

MitoDetect++: A Domain-Robust Pipeline for Mitosis Detection and Atypical Subtyping

Esha Sadia Nasir, Jiaqi Lv, Mostafa Jahanifar +1

Automated detection and classification of mitotic figures especially distinguishing atypical from normal remain critical challenges in computational pathology. We present MitoDetec…

eess.IV2025

From Traditional to Deep Learning Approaches in Whole Slide Image Registration: A Methodological Review

Behnaz Elhaminia, Abdullah Alsalemi, Esha Nasir +6

Whole slide image (WSI) registration is an essential task for analysing the tumour microenvironment (TME) in histopathology. It involves the alignment of spatial information betwee…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Benchmarking Domain Generalization Algorithms in Computational Pathology

Neda Zamanitajeddin, Mostafa Jahanifar, Kesi Xu +2

Deep learning models have shown immense promise in computational pathology (CPath) tasks, but their performance often suffers when applied to unseen data due to domain shifts. Addr…

eess.IV2024

TIAViz: A Browser-based Visualization Tool for Computational Pathology Models

Mark Eastwood, John Pocock, Mostafa Jahanifar +8

Digital pathology has gained significant traction in modern healthcare systems. This shift from optical microscopes to digital imagery brings with it the potential for improved dia…

eess.IV2023

An Automated Pipeline for Tumour-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Scoring in Breast Cancer

Adam J Shephard, Mostafa Jahanifar, Ruoyu Wang +6

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are considered as a valuable prognostic markers in both triple-negative and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast c…

eess.IV2023★ 10 cited

Domain Generalization in Computational Pathology: Survey and Guidelines

Mostafa Jahanifar, Manahil Raza, Kesi Xu +8

Deep learning models have exhibited exceptional effectiveness in Computational Pathology (CPath) by tackling intricate tasks across an array of histology image analysis application…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Domain generalization across tumor types, laboratories, and species -- insights from the 2022 edition of the Mitosis Domain Generalization Challenge

Marc Aubreville, Nikolas Stathonikos, Taryn A. Donovan +27

Recognition of mitotic figures in histologic tumor specimens is highly relevant to patient outcome assessment. This task is challenging for algorithms and human experts alike, with…

q-bio.QM2023

A Fully Automated and Explainable Algorithm for the Prediction of Malignant Transformation in Oral Epithelial Dysplasia

Adam J Shephard, Raja Muhammad Saad Bashir, Hanya Mahmood +11

Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) is a premalignant histopathological diagnosis given to lesions of the oral cavity. Its grading suffers from significant inter-/intra- observer varia…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Why is the winner the best?

Matthias Eisenmann, Annika Reinke, Vivienn Weru +122

International benchmarking competitions have become fundamental for the comparative performance assessment of image analysis methods. However, little attention has been given to in…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

CoNIC Challenge: Pushing the Frontiers of Nuclear Detection, Segmentation, Classification and Counting

Simon Graham, Quoc Dang Vu, Mostafa Jahanifar +86

Nuclear detection, segmentation and morphometric profiling are essential in helping us further understand the relationship between histology and patient outcome. To drive innovatio…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Nuclear Segmentation and Classification: On Color & Compression Generalization

Quoc Dang Vu, Robert Jewsbury, Simon Graham +5

Since the introduction of digital and computational pathology as a field, one of the major problems in the clinical application of algorithms has been the struggle to generalize we…

cs.CV2022

IMPaSh: A Novel Domain-shift Resistant Representation for Colorectal Cancer Tissue Classification

Trinh Thi Le Vuong, Quoc Dang Vu, Mostafa Jahanifar +3

The appearance of histopathology images depends on tissue type, staining and digitization procedure. These vary from source to source and are the potential causes for domain-shift…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

Mitosis Detection, Fast and Slow: Robust and Efficient Detection of Mitotic Figures

Mostafa Jahanifar, Adam Shephard, Neda Zamanitajeddin +4

Counting of mitotic figures is a fundamental step in grading and prognostication of several cancers. However, manual mitosis counting is tedious and time-consuming. In addition, va…

eess.IV2022★ 5 cited

TIAger: Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Scoring in Breast Cancer for the TiGER Challenge

Adam Shephard, Mostafa Jahanifar, Ruoyu Wang +6

The quantification of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) has been shown to be an independent predictor for prognosis of breast cancer patients. Typically, pathologists give an e…

eess.IV2022★ 162 cited

Mitosis domain generalization in histopathology images -- The MIDOG challenge

Marc Aubreville, Nikolas Stathonikos, Christof A. Bertram +32

The density of mitotic figures within tumor tissue is known to be highly correlated with tumor proliferation and thus is an important marker in tumor grading. Recognition of mitoti…

eess.IV2022★ 12 cited

One Model is All You Need: Multi-Task Learning Enables Simultaneous Histology Image Segmentation and Classification

Simon Graham, Quoc Dang Vu, Mostafa Jahanifar +4

The recent surge in performance for image analysis of digitised pathology slides can largely be attributed to the advances in deep learning. Deep models can be used to initially lo…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

CoNIC: Colon Nuclei Identification and Counting Challenge 2022

Simon Graham, Mostafa Jahanifar, Quoc Dang Vu +6

Nuclear segmentation, classification and quantification within Haematoxylin & Eosin stained histology images enables the extraction of interpretable cell-based features that can be…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Stain-Robust Mitotic Figure Detection for the Mitosis Domain Generalization Challenge

Mostafa Jahanifar, Adam Shephard, Neda Zamani Tajeddin +5

The detection of mitotic figures from different scanners/sites remains an important topic of research, owing to its potential in assisting clinicians with tumour grading. The MItos…

eess.IV2021★ 2 cited

Simultaneous Nuclear Instance and Layer Segmentation in Oral Epithelial Dysplasia

Adam J. Shephard, Simon Graham, R. M. Saad Bashir +4

Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) is a pre-malignant histopathological diagnosis given to lesions of the oral cavity. Predicting OED grade or whether a case will transition to malign…

eess.IV2021★ 1 cited

Robust Interactive Semantic Segmentation of Pathology Images with Minimal User Input

Mostafa Jahanifar, Neda Zamani Tajeddin, Navid Alemi Koohbanani +1

From the simple measurement of tissue attributes in pathology workflow to designing an explainable diagnostic/prognostic AI tool, access to accurate semantic segmentation of tissue…