arXiv Computer Vision

Towards Reliable AI-Based Histological Staining: A Systematic Study of Scaling and Uncertainty in Unpaired Generative Models

The paper presents a systematic evaluation of six unsupervised image‑to‑image generative models for virtual Sirius Red staining of mouse liver tissue from routine H&E slides. It benchmarks these models across 54 scaling configurations on a newly released paired H&E‑to‑SR dataset, assessing perceptual, distributional, and task‑specific performance, and further trains the best models into deep ensembles to quantify epistemic uncertainty. The study finds that GAN‑based and diffusion‑based methods differ markedly across these metrics, indicating that reliable virtual staining requires reporting and selecting on all three axes simultaneously.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Semantic Segmentation-Driven Image-Level Diagnosis of Liver Cancers in Hematoxylin and Eosin Histopathology Images

arXiv:2607. 03253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) staining constitutes the primary entry point in routine diagnostic workflows, computer-aided diagnosis from whole-slide H&E images is of particular clinical relevance.

By Ivica Kopriva, Dario Sitnik, Arijana Pacic, Karolina Krstanac, Irena Veliki Dalic, Marijana Popovic Hadzija
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Assessment of Conditional Diffusion Model for Synthetic Histopathology Image Generation

arXiv:2608. 03990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic histopathology image generation has emerged as an approach that may address data scarcity in computational pathology, yet current evaluation methodologies may not fully assess synthetic data quality for medical applications.

By Seyed Kahaki, Shijie Li, Weijie Chen, Nicholas Petrick
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 13

LiFUSE: Frequency-Spatial Unified Self-Supervised Pretraining for Liver Disease Analysis on Non-contrast CT

LiFUSE introduces a unified frequency‑spatial self‑supervised pretraining framework for liver disease analysis on non‑contrast CT scans. The method employs a frequency branch that uses random band‑stop masking and spectrum reconstruction, and a spatial branch that performs hybrid‑granularity masked volumetric reconstruction, with a cross‑domain consistency scheme to fuse the two branches. Experiments on three clinical tasks and a public transfer setting demonstrate that LiFUSE consistently outperforms strong baselines, indicating its potential to enhance liver disease screening using low‑contrast NCCT images.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 22

An interpretable deep learning method for early hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis on multiphase CT

The study introduces dLI-RADS, an interpretable AI system that estimates hepatocellular carcinoma probability from multiphase CT images of liver lesions while aligning with LI-RADS imaging concepts. By combining neural network predictions with handcrafted quantitative imaging features and logistic regression, dLI-RADS achieved 80% lesion-level accuracy, outperforming standard LI-RADS (74%) in a multicenter retrospective cohort. The method was validated using bootstrap non‑inferiority tests and external sensitivity comparisons.

By Emma Sarfati, Alexandre B\^one, Pietro Gori, Sisi Yang, Marc-Michel Roh\'e, Fran\c{c}ois Nicolas, Jeong-Min Lee, Jeong Hee Yoon, Maxime Ronot, Isabelle Bloch, Christophe Aub\'e
arXiv AI
Jun 8

DaX: Learning General Pathology Representations Across Scales

arXiv:2606. 06983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational pathology requires visual representations that transfer across diverse clinical endpoints and remain robust to variation in magnification, staining, scanner type, slide preparation, and input resolution.

By Bokai Zhao, Yiyang Zhang, Long Bai, Tai Ma, Hanqing Chao, Minfeng Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 2

Controllable Diffusion-Based Lesion Inpainting for Scalable Histopathology Data Augmentation

arXiv:2601. 08127v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Expert-annotated training data remains the critical bottleneck for AI in histopathology, particularly for rare pathologies where even dozens of cases may be unavailable.

By Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Rex K. H. Au-Yeung, Raymond Yu O, Monalyn Marabi, Piyapharom Intarawichian, Fabian Z. X. Lean, Andrew Ferguson, Kyongtae Tyler Bae
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Atlas H&E-TME: Scalable AI-Based Tissue Profiling at Expert Pathologist-Level Accuracy

arXiv:2606. 12346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining is the cornerstone of histopathology, yet scalable, quantitative analysis of H&E whole-slide images (WSIs) remains a central challenge in computational pathology.

By Kai Standvoss, Miriam H\"agele, Rosemarie Krupar, Julika Ribbat-Idel, Jennifer Altsch\"uler, Gerrit Erdmann, Hans Pinckaers, Evelyn Ramberger, Madleen Drinkwitz, \'Ad\'am N\'arai, Alexander M\"ollers, Katja Lingelbach, Sebastian Kons, Lukas H\"onig, Recepcan Adig\"uzel, Joana Bai\~ao, Alberto Megina Gonzalo, Marius Teodorescu, Marie-Lisa Eich, Paolo Chetta, Shakil Merchant, Verena Aumiller, Simon Schallenberg, Andrew Norgan, Klaus-Robert M\"uller, Lukas Ruff, Maximilian Alber, Frederick Klauschen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

AMPLIFAI: A Multiphase CT Dataset for Benchmarking Clinical Reasoning in LI-RADS Assessment of Liver Lesions

The paper introduces AMPLIFAI, the first public dataset of multiphase abdominal CT scans annotated with LI-RADS categories and segmented for three key LI-RADS features: arterial phase hyperenhancement, washout, and enhancing capsule. It outlines the dataset’s composition, curation process, and annotation pipeline following the Datasheets for Datasets format to promote transparency and reproducibility. The dataset aims to support the development of AI models for automated hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis using the biopsy‑free, imaging‑based LI‑RADs framework.

By Pranav Kulkarni, Nikhil Shah, Amritansh Suryavanshi, Jana Delfino, James Tonascia, Jade Wong-You-Cheong, Barton Lane, Joseph Chirico, Jeffrey D. Hirsch, Ang Li, Heng Huang, Florence X. Doo