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cs.CV2026

PathLang: A Language-Centered Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Computational Pathology

Fanqi Cheng, Kuo Gong, Shangke Liu +15

Pathology vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong visual perception ability, but their robustness in the language domain remains poorly characterized. Existing pathology VL…

cs.CV2026

Comprehensive Evaluation and Fine-Tuning of Foundational Cell Nuclei Segmentation Models in Renal Pathology

Ruijie Wu, Junlin Guo, Ruining Deng +4

Accurate nuclei instance segmentation is essential for quantitative renal pathology, yet general-purpose models often struggle with low contrast, dense nuclei, complex morphology,…

cs.CV2026

Benchmarking Active Spot Selection for Cost-Efficient Spatial Transcriptomics

Zheyu Zhu, Junchao Zhu, Fengbei Liu +7

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures gene expression in tissue context, but dense capture grids can be costly and may repeatedly sample morphologically similar regions. Most activ…

cs.CV2026

Seeing Abnormal from Normal: Glomerular Abnormality in Representations of Normal Renal Morphology

Greta Hasko, Rachit Saluja, Tianyu Shi +13

Fine-grained evaluation of glomerular pathology must distinguish normal glomeruli from abnormalities such as global and segmental glomerulosclerosis, obsolescent, ischemic, solidif…

cs.AI2026

SAGEAgent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Cost-Aware Modality Acquisition in Multimodal Survival Prediction

Chongyu Qu, Can Cui, Zhengyi Lu +8

Does every cancer patient truly need a complete diagnostic workup for accurate survival prediction? In multimodal clinical oncology, diagnostic modalities follow a clinically manda…

cs.CV2026

MORI-Seg: Learning Morphological Geometry for Instance Segmentation without Instance Annotations

Leiyue Zhao, Tianyu Shi, Daniel Reisenbuchler +12

Instance-level quantification of kidney functional units is essential for morphometric analysis, yet most publicly available pathology datasets provide only semantic segmentation a…

cs.CV2026

An Interpretable Vision Transformer as a Fingerprint-Based Diagnostic Aid for Kabuki and Wiedemann-Steiner Syndromes

Marilyn Lionts, Arnhildur Tomasdottir, Viktor I. Agustsson +3

Kabuki syndrome (KS) and Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WSS) are rare but distinct developmental disorders that share overlapping clinical features, including neurodevelopmental delay…

cs.CV2026

Explainable Pathomics Feature Visualization via Correlation-aware Conditional Feature Editing

Yuechen Yang, Junlin Guo, Ruining Deng +9

Pathomics is a recent approach that offers rich quantitative features beyond what black-box deep learning can provide, supporting more reproducible and explainable biomarkers in di…

cs.CV2026

SCR2-ST: Combine Single Cell with Spatial Transcriptomics for Efficient Active Sampling via Reinforcement Learning

Junchao Zhu, Ruining Deng, Junlin Guo +13

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is an emerging technology that enables researchers to investigate the molecular relationships underlying tissue morphology. However, acquiring ST data…

cs.CV2025

HistoWAS: A Pathomics Framework for Large-Scale Feature-Wide Association Studies of Tissue Topology and Patient Outcomes

Yuechen Yang, Junlin Guo, Yanfan Zhu +10

High-throughput "pathomic" analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) offers new opportunities to study tissue characteristics and for biomarker discovery. However, the clinical relevan…

cs.CV2025

How Close Are We? Limitations and Progress of AI Models in Banff Lesion Scoring

Yanfan Zhu, Juming Xiong, Ruining Deng +7

The Banff Classification provides the global standard for evaluating renal transplant biopsies, yet its semi-quantitative nature, complex criteria, and inter-observer variability p…

q-bio.QM2025

Evaluating New AI Cell Foundation Models on Challenging Kidney Pathology Cases Unaddressed by Previous Foundation Models

Runchen Wang, Junlin Guo, Siqi Lu +12

Accurate cell nuclei segmentation is critical for downstream tasks in kidney pathology and remains a major challenge due to the morphological diversity and imaging variability of r…

cs.CV2025

Organoid Tracker: A SAM2-Powered Platform for Zero-shot Cyst Analysis in Human Kidney Organoid Videos

Xiaoyu Huang, Lauren M Maxson, Trang Nguyen +2

Recent advances in organoid models have revolutionized the study of human kidney disease mechanisms and drug discovery by enabling scalable, cost-effective research without the nee…

cs.CV2025

MedFoundationHub: A Lightweight and Secure Toolkit for Deploying Medical Vision Language Foundation Models

Xiao Li, Yanfan Zhu, Ruining Deng +6

Recent advances in medical vision-language models (VLMs) open up remarkable opportunities for clinical applications such as automated report generation, copilots for physicians, an…

cs.CV2025

Fine-grained Multi-class Nuclei Segmentation with Molecular-empowered All-in-SAM Model

Xueyuan Li, Can Cui, Ruining Deng +7

Purpose: Recent developments in computational pathology have been driven by advances in Vision Foundation Models, particularly the Segment Anything Model (SAM). This model facilita…

cs.CV2025

Img2ST-Net: Efficient High-Resolution Spatial Omics Prediction from Whole Slide Histology Images via Fully Convolutional Image-to-Image Learning

Junchao Zhu, Ruining Deng, Junlin Guo +10

Recent advances in multi-modal AI have demonstrated promising potential for generating the currently expensive spatial transcriptomics (ST) data directly from routine histology ima…

cs.CV2025

ZeroReg3D: A Zero-shot Registration Pipeline for 3D Consecutive Histopathology Image Reconstruction

Juming Xiong, Ruining Deng, Jialin Yue +10

Histological analysis plays a crucial role in understanding tissue structure and pathology. While recent advancements in registration methods have improved 2D histological analysis…

eess.IV2025

IRS: Incremental Relationship-guided Segmentation for Digital Pathology

Ruining Deng, Junchao Zhu, Juming Xiong +14

Continual learning is rapidly emerging as a key focus in computer vision, aiming to develop AI systems capable of continuous improvement, thereby enhancing their value and practica…

cs.CV2025

CASC-AI: Consensus-aware Self-corrective Learning for Noise Cell Segmentation

Ruining Deng, Yihe Yang, David J. Pisapia +15

Multi-class cell segmentation in high-resolution gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) is crucial for various clinical applications. However, training such models typically requires…

cs.CV2025

MagNet: Multi-Level Attention Graph Network for Predicting High-Resolution Spatial Transcriptomics

Junchao Zhu, Ruining Deng, Tianyuan Yao +12

The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers new opportunities to explore the gene expression patterns within the spatial microenvironment. Current research integra…

cs.CV2025

KPIs 2024 Challenge: Advancing Glomerular Segmentation from Patch- to Slide-Level

Ruining Deng, Tianyuan Yao, Yucheng Tang +44

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health issue, affecting over 10% of the population and causing significant mortality. While kidney biopsy remains the gold standard f…

cs.CV2025

Towards Fine-grained Renal Vasculature Segmentation: Full-Scale Hierarchical Learning with FH-Seg

Yitian Long, Zhongze Wu, Xiu Su +4

Accurate fine-grained segmentation of the renal vasculature is critical for nephrological analysis, yet it faces challenges due to diverse and insufficiently annotated images. Exis…

eess.IV2025

PySpatial: A High-Speed Whole Slide Image Pathomics Toolkit

Yuechen Yang, Yu Wang, Tianyuan Yao +5

Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis plays a crucial role in modern digital pathology, enabling large-scale feature extraction from tissue samples. However, traditional feature extract…

eess.IV2024

Efficient MedSAMs: Segment Anything in Medical Images on Laptop

Jun Ma, Feifei Li, Sumin Kim +79

Promptable segmentation foundation models have emerged as a transformative approach to addressing the diverse needs in medical images, but most existing models require expensive co…