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most citedUnleashing the Strengths of Unlabeled Data in Pan-cancer Abdominal Organ Quantification: the FLARE22 Challenge

19 citations · 56 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

NuNext: Reframing Nucleus Detection as Next-Point Detection

Zhongyi Shui, Honglin Li, Xiaozhong Ji +7

Nucleus detection in histopathology is pivotal for a wide range of clinical applications. Existing approaches either regress nuclear proxy maps that require complex post-processing…

cs.CV2025

CPathAgent: An Agent-based Foundation Model for Interpretable High-Resolution Pathology Image Analysis Mimicking Pathologists' Diagnostic Logic

Yuxuan Sun, Yixuan Si, Chenglu Zhu +5

Recent advances in computational pathology have led to the emergence of numerous foundation models. These models typically rely on general-purpose encoders with multi-instance lear…

cs.CV2025

PathVQ: Reforming Computational Pathology Foundation Model for Whole Slide Image Analysis via Vector Quantization

Honglin Li, Zhongyi Shui, Yunlong Zhang +2

Computational pathology and whole-slide image (WSI) analysis are pivotal in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, the ultra-high resolution of WSIs presents significant modeling…

eess.IV2025

Towards Effective and Efficient Context-aware Nucleus Detection in Histopathology Whole Slide Images

Zhongyi Shui, Honglin Li, Yunlong Zhang +7

Nucleus detection in histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. The gigapixel size of WSIs necessitates the use of sliding w…

cs.CV2024

CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology

Yuxuan Sun, Yixuan Si, Chenglu Zhu +7

The emergence of large multimodal models (LMMs) has brought significant advancements to pathology. Previous research has primarily focused on separately training patch-level and wh…

cs.CV2024

Panther: Illuminate the Sight of Multimodal LLMs with Instruction-Guided Visual Prompts

Honglin Li, Yuting Gao, Chenglu Zhu +3

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are closing the gap to human visual perception capability rapidly, while, still lag behind on attending to subtle images details or locatin…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Rethinking Transformer for Long Contextual Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis

Honglin Li, Yunlong Zhang, Pingyi Chen +3

Histopathology Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis serves as the gold standard for clinical cancer diagnosis in the daily routines of doctors. To develop computer-aided diagnosis mode…

cs.CV2024

Large-scale cervical precancerous screening via AI-assisted cytology whole slide image analysis

Honglin Li, Yusuan Sun, Chenglu Zhu +8

Cervical Cancer continues to be the leading gynecological malignancy, posing a persistent threat to women's health on a global scale. Early screening via cytology Whole Slide Image…

cs.CV2024

WSI-VQA: Interpreting Whole Slide Images by Generative Visual Question Answering

Pingyi Chen, Chenglu Zhu, Sunyi Zheng +2

Whole slide imaging is routinely adopted for carcinoma diagnosis and prognosis. Abundant experience is required for pathologists to achieve accurate and reliable diagnostic results…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration

Yuxuan Sun, Yunlong Zhang, Yixuan Si +7

Vision Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have attracted substantial attention in pathology, serving as backbones for applications such as zero-shot image classification and Whole Sl…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

AEM: Attention Entropy Maximization for Multiple Instance Learning based Whole Slide Image Classification

Yunlong Zhang, Honglin Li, Yunxuan Sun +4

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) effectively analyzes whole slide images but faces overfitting due to attention over-concentration. While existing solutions rely on complex archite…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

PathMMU: A Massive Multimodal Expert-Level Benchmark for Understanding and Reasoning in Pathology

Yuxuan Sun, Hao Wu, Chenglu Zhu +11

The emergence of large multimodal models has unlocked remarkable potential in AI, particularly in pathology. However, the lack of specialized, high-quality benchmark impeded their…

cs.CV2023

Long-MIL: Scaling Long Contextual Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis

Honglin Li, Yunlong Zhang, Chenglu Zhu +3

Histopathology image analysis is the golden standard of clinical diagnosis for Cancers. In doctors daily routine and computer-aided diagnosis, the Whole Slide Image (WSI) of histop…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Test-Time Training for Semantic Segmentation with Output Contrastive Loss

Yunlong Zhang, Yuxuan Sun, Sunyi Zheng +3

Although deep learning-based segmentation models have achieved impressive performance on public benchmarks, generalizing well to unseen environments remains a major challenge. To i…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

WsiCaption: Multiple Instance Generation of Pathology Reports for Gigapixel Whole-Slide Images

Pingyi Chen, Honglin Li, Chenglu Zhu +3

Whole slide images are the foundation of digital pathology for the diagnosis and treatment of carcinomas. Writing pathology reports is laborious and error-prone for inexperienced p…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Unleashing the Power of Prompt-driven Nucleus Instance Segmentation

Zhongyi Shui, Yunlong Zhang, Kai Yao +7

Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Di…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Attention-Challenging Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification

Yunlong Zhang, Honglin Li, Yuxuan Sun +3

In the application of Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) methods for Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification, attention mechanisms often focus on a subset of discriminative instances,…

cs.CV2023

Exploring Unsupervised Cell Recognition with Prior Self-activation Maps

Pingyi Chen, Chenglu Zhu, Zhongyi Shui +4

The success of supervised deep learning models on cell recognition tasks relies on detailed annotations. Many previous works have managed to reduce the dependency on labels. Howeve…

eess.IV2023★ 19 cited

Unleashing the Strengths of Unlabeled Data in Pan-cancer Abdominal Organ Quantification: the FLARE22 Challenge

Jun Ma, Yao Zhang, Song Gu +26

Quantitative organ assessment is an essential step in automated abdominal disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown great potential to automa…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Semi-supervised Cell Recognition under Point Supervision

Zhongyi Shui, Yizhi Zhao, Sunyi Zheng +6

Cell recognition is a fundamental task in digital histopathology image analysis. Point-based cell recognition (PCR) methods normally require a vast number of annotations, which is…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

PathAsst: A Generative Foundation AI Assistant Towards Artificial General Intelligence of Pathology

Yuxuan Sun, Chenglu Zhu, Sunyi Zheng +6

As advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal techniques continue to mature, the development of general-purpose multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has surged, of…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Task-specific Fine-tuning via Variational Information Bottleneck for Weakly-supervised Pathology Whole Slide Image Classification

Honglin Li, Chenglu Zhu, Yunlong Zhang +5

While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has shown promising results in digital Pathology Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification, such a paradigm still faces performance and generali…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Unsupervised Dense Nuclei Detection and Segmentation with Prior Self-activation Map For Histology Images

Pingyi Chen, Chenglu Zhu, Zhongyi Shui +4

The success of supervised deep learning models in medical image segmentation relies on detailed annotations. However, labor-intensive manual labeling is costly and inefficient, esp…

cs.CV2022

End-to-end cell recognition by point annotation

Zhongyi Shui, Shichuan Zhang, Chenglu Zhu +4

Reliable quantitative analysis of immunohistochemical staining images requires accurate and robust cell detection and classification. Recent weakly-supervised methods usually estim…