Is Synthetic Image Augmentation Useful for Imbalanced Classification Problems? Case-Study on the MIDOG2025 Atypical Cell Detection Competition

Leire Benito-Del-Valle, Pedro A. Moreno-Sánchez, Itziar Egusquiza +4

The MIDOG 2025 challenge extends prior work on mitotic figure detection by introducing a new Track 2 on atypical mitosis classification. This task aims to distinguish normal from a…