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most cited2DMamba: Efficient State Space Model for Image Representation with Applications on Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Image Classification

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

What Makes High-Magnification Knowledge Transferable? A Study of Cross-Resolution Distillation in Whole-Slide Imaging

Zhiyuan Yang, Jiahao Cheng, Mahdi S. Hosseini

Cross-resolution knowledge distillation aims to improve low-magnification whole- slide analysis by transferring high-magnification representations, yet the conditions for useful tr…

cs.CV2026

Gated Spatial Redundancy Projection for Pathology Transformer Attentions

Zhiyuan Yang, Jiahao Cheng, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh +1

Transformer models are increasingly used for whole-slide image analysis in computational pathology. Yet, WSIs differ fundamentally from natural images: neighbouring patches often c…

cs.LG2026

Beyond the Hard Budget: Sparsity Regularizers for More Interpretable Top-k Sparse Autoencoders

Nathanaël Jacquier, Maria Vakalopoulou, Mahdi S. Hosseini

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become a leading tool for interpreting the representations of vision foundation models, decomposing their polysemantic activations into a larger set…

cs.CV2026

Fisher-Guided Progressive Parameter Selection for Adaptive Fine-Tuning

Ghodsiyeh Rostami, Po-Han Chen, Mahdi S. Hosseini

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning often selects trainable parameters before adaptation using architectural heuristics, without accounting for their varying importance during training…

cs.CV2026

Simple Token-Efficient Vision-Language Model for Case-level Pathology Synoptic Report Generation

Zhiyuan Yang, Jiahao Cheng, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh +1

Generating clinically useful pathology reports for pathology cases from whole-slide images (WSIs) is challenging due to gigapixel resolution, long visual-token sequences, and the c…

cs.CV2026

MOOZY: A Patient-First Foundation Model for Computational Pathology

Yousef Kotp, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Christopher Pal +1

Computational pathology needs whole-slide image (WSI) foundation models that transfer across diverse clinical tasks, yet current approaches remain largely slide-centric, often depe…

cs.CV2026

MonoLoss: A Training Objective for Interpretable Monosemantic Representations

Ali Nasiri-Sarvi, Anh Tien Nguyen, Hassan Rivaz +2

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) decompose polysemantic neural representations, where neurons respond to multiple unrelated concepts, into monosemantic features that capture single, inte…

eess.IV2025

ADPv2: A Hierarchical Histological Tissue Type-Annotated Dataset for Potential Biomarker Discovery of Colorectal Disease

Zhiyuan Yang, Kai Li, Sophia Ghamoshi Ramandi +9

Computational pathology (CoPath) leverages histopathology images to enhance diagnostic precision and reproducibility in clinical pathology. However, publicly available datasets for…

cs.CV2025

SPARC: Concept-Aligned Sparse Autoencoders for Cross-Model and Cross-Modal Interpretability

Ali Nasiri-Sarvi, Hassan Rivaz, Mahdi S. Hosseini

Understanding how different AI models encode the same high-level concepts, such as objects or attributes, remains challenging because each model typically produces its own isolated…

cs.CV2025

LBMamba: Locally Bi-directional Mamba

Jingwei Zhang, Xi Han, Hong Qin +2

Mamba, a State Space Model (SSM) that accelerates training by recasting recurrence as a parallel scan, has recently emerged as a linearly-scaling alternative to self-attention. Bec…

cs.CV2025

Investigating Zero-Shot Diagnostic Pathology in Vision-Language Models with Efficient Prompt Design

Vasudev Sharma, Ahmed Alagha, Abdelhakim Khellaf +2

Vision-language models (VLMs) have gained significant attention in computational pathology due to their multimodal learning capabilities that enhance big-data analytics of giga-pix…

cs.CV2025

Ultrasound Image Generation using Latent Diffusion Models

Benoit Freiche, Anthony El-Khoury, Ali Nasiri-Sarvi +5

Diffusion models for image generation have been a subject of increasing interest due to their ability to generate diverse, high-quality images. Image generation has immense potenti…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

2DMamba: Efficient State Space Model for Image Representation with Applications on Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Image Classification

Jingwei Zhang, Anh Tien Nguyen, Xi Han +4

Efficiently modeling large 2D contexts is essential for various fields including Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) and remote sensing. Transformer-based models offer high parall…

eess.IV2024

Comparative Analysis of Diffusion Generative Models in Computational Pathology

Denisha Thakkar, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Sonal Varma +3

Diffusion Generative Models (DGM) have rapidly surfaced as emerging topics in the field of computer vision, garnering significant interest across a wide array of deep learning appl…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Efficient Self-Supervised Barlow Twins from Limited Tissue Slide Cohorts for Colonic Pathology Diagnostics

Cassandre Notton, Vasudev Sharma, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh +4

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the few cancers that have an established dysplasia-carcinoma sequence that benefits from screening. Everyone over 50 years of age in Canada is eli…

cs.CV2024

Vision Mamba for Classification of Breast Ultrasound Images

Ali Nasiri-Sarvi, Mahdi S. Hosseini, Hassan Rivaz

Mamba-based models, VMamba and Vim, are a recent family of vision encoders that offer promising performance improvements in many computer vision tasks. This paper compares Mamba-ba…

eess.IV2024★ 2 cited

Vim4Path: Self-Supervised Vision Mamba for Histopathology Images

Ali Nasiri-Sarvi, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Hassan Rivaz +1

Representation learning from Gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSI) poses a significant challenge in computational pathology due to the complicated nature of tissue structures and the…