Revisiting the Role of Foundation Models in Cell-Level Histopathological Image Analysis under Small-Patch Constraints -- Effects of Training Data Scale and Blur Perturbations on CNNs and Vision Transformers

Hiroki Kagiyama, Toru Nagasaka, Yukari Adachi +5

Background and objective: Cell-level pathological image analysis requires working with extremely small image patches (40x40 pixels), far below standard ImageNet resolutions. It rem…