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20202026
most citedCD-Net: Histopathology Representation Learning using Pyramidal Context-Detail Network

3 citations · 12 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CV2026

Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Automated Pathology Diagnosis and Report Generation

Yumi Lee, Harim Oh, Hyoryung Kim +52

The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has accelerated progress in computational pathology; however, whole-slide image (WSI)-based pathology report generation remai…

cs.CV2026

Semantic Context-aware mOdality fUsion Transformer (SCOUT): A Context-Aware Multimodal Transformer for Concept-Grounded Pathology Report Generation

Suryakant Singh, Saarthak Kapse, Joel Saltz +1

Whole-slide pathology report generation requires models to integrate localized histomorphology, global tissue context, and diagnostically relevant semantic information, yet existin…

cs.CV2025

TICON: A Slide-Level Tile Contextualizer for Histopathology Representation Learning

Varun Belagali, Saarthak Kapse, Pierre Marza +12

The interpretation of small tiles in large whole slide images (WSI) often needs a larger image context. We introduce TICON, a transformer-based tile representation contextualizer t…

cs.CV2025

PEaRL: Pathway-Enhanced Representation Learning for Gene and Pathway Expression Prediction from Histology

Sejuti Majumder, Saarthak Kapse, Moinak Bhattacharya +3

Integrating histopathology with spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides a powerful opportunity to link tissue morphology with molecular function. Yet most existing multimodal approac…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

PixCell: A generative foundation model for digital histopathology images

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li +11

The digitization of histology slides has revolutionized pathology, providing massive datasets for cancer diagnosis and research. Self-supervised and vision-language models have bee…

cs.CV2025

GECKO: Gigapixel Vision-Concept Contrastive Pretraining in Histopathology

Saarthak Kapse, Pushpak Pati, Srikar Yellapragada +5

Pretraining a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) aggregator enables the derivation of Whole Slide Image (WSI)-level embeddings from patch-level representations without supervision. W…

cs.CV2025

Fast Vision Mamba: Pooling Spatial Dimensions for Accelerated Processing

Saarthak Kapse, Robin Betz, Srinivasan Sivanandan

State Space Models (SSMs) with selective scan (Mamba) have been adapted into efficient vision models. Mamba, unlike Vision Transformers, achieves linear complexity for token intera…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Gen-SIS: Generative Self-augmentation Improves Self-supervised Learning

Varun Belagali, Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos +7

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have emerged as strong visual representation learners by training an image encoder to maximize similarity between features of different views…

eess.IV2024

RankByGene: Gene-Guided Histopathology Representation Learning Through Cross-Modal Ranking Consistency

Wentao Huang, Meilong Xu, Xiaoling Hu +9

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides essential spatial context by mapping gene expression within tissue, enabling detailed study of cellular heterogeneity and tissue organization.…

eess.IV2024

Histo-Diffusion: A Diffusion Super-Resolution Method for Digital Pathology with Comprehensive Quality Assessment

Xuan Xu, Saarthak Kapse, Prateek Prasanna

Digital pathology has advanced significantly over the last decade, with Whole Slide Images (WSIs) encompassing vast amounts of data essential for accurate disease diagnosis. High-r…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

SI-MIL: Taming Deep MIL for Self-Interpretability in Gigapixel Histopathology

Saarthak Kapse, Pushpak Pati, Srijan Das +7

Introducing interpretability and reasoning into Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) methods for Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis is challenging, given the complexity of gigapixel slid…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Learned representation-guided diffusion models for large-image generation

Alexandros Graikos, Srikar Yellapragada, Minh-Quan Le +4

To synthesize high-fidelity samples, diffusion models typically require auxiliary data to guide the generation process. However, it is impractical to procure the painstaking patch-…

cs.CV2023

Attention De-sparsification Matters: Inducing Diversity in Digital Pathology Representation Learning

Saarthak Kapse, Srijan Das, Jingwei Zhang +4

We propose DiRL, a Diversity-inducing Representation Learning technique for histopathology imaging. Self-supervised learning techniques, such as contrastive and non-contrastive app…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

SAM-Path: A Segment Anything Model for Semantic Segmentation in Digital Pathology

Jingwei Zhang, Ke Ma, Saarthak Kapse +4

Semantic segmentations of pathological entities have crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have…

cs.CV2023

ViT-DAE: Transformer-driven Diffusion Autoencoder for Histopathology Image Analysis

Xuan Xu, Saarthak Kapse, Rajarsi Gupta +1

Generative AI has received substantial attention in recent years due to its ability to synthesize data that closely resembles the original data source. While Generative Adversarial…

cs.CV2023

Prompt-MIL: Boosting Multi-Instance Learning Schemes via Task-specific Prompt Tuning

Jingwei Zhang, Saarthak Kapse, Ke Ma +4

Whole slide image (WSI) classification is a critical task in computational pathology, requiring the processing of gigapixel-sized images, which is challenging for current deep-lear…

cs.CV2022

Precise Location Matching Improves Dense Contrastive Learning in Digital Pathology

Jingwei Zhang, Saarthak Kapse, Ke Ma +4

Dense prediction tasks such as segmentation and detection of pathological entities hold crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. However, obtaining dense annota…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

CD-Net: Histopathology Representation Learning using Pyramidal Context-Detail Network

Saarthak Kapse, Srijan Das, Prateek Prasanna

Extracting rich phenotype information, such as cell density and arrangement, from whole slide histology images (WSIs), requires analysis of large field of view, i.e more contexual…

q-bio.QM2021★ 1 cited

TopoTxR: A Topological Biomarker for Predicting Treatment Response in Breast Cancer

Fan Wang, Saarthak Kapse, Steven Liu +2

Characterization of breast parenchyma on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is a challenging task owing to the complexity of underlying tissue structure…

q-bio.QM2020

Predicting Clinical Outcomes in COVID-19 using Radiomics and Deep Learning on Chest Radiographs: A Multi-Institutional Study

Joseph Bae, Saarthak Kapse, Gagandeep Singh +10

We predict mechanical ventilation requirement and mortality using computational modeling of chest radiographs (CXRs) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. This two-cent…