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
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
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Towards Cellular-Scale Interpretability in Pathology Foundation Models for Biomarker Assessment

arXiv:2511. 05150v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular biomarker testing in pathology is often costly and tissue-consuming, limiting scalable clinical deployment.

By Jingsong Liu, Han Li, Zhengyang Xu, Franz-Leonard Klaus, Fabian St\"ogbauer, Shihui Zu, Weiwei Zhou, Atsuko Kasajima, Felix Schicktanz, Alexander Muckenhuber, Julius Shakhtour, Jiale Yu, Tiannan Zheng, Xun Ma, Maggie Wang, Christian Grashei, Bao Li, Guiyang Jiang, Hongming Xu, Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Nassir Navab, Peter J. Sch\"uffler
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Transformation Behavior of Images in Latent Space

arXiv:2606. 24430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training of neural networks for histopathology classification tasks typically relies on data encoding into latent space, which reduces complexity and improves performance.

By Christian Z\"ollner (Department of Applied Tumor Biology Institute of Pathology Heidelberg University Hospital), Mozzam Motiwala (Department of Applied Tumor Biology Institute of Pathology Heidelberg University Hospital), Aysel Ahadova (Department of Applied Tumor Biology Institute of Pathology Heidelberg University Hospital), Gerrit Anders (Leibniz Institut f\"ur Wissensmedien), Robert H\"uneburg (National Center for Hereditary Tumor Syndromes University Hospital Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine I University Hospital Bonn), Jacob Nattermann (National Center for Hereditary Tumor Syndromes University Hospital Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine I University Hospital Bonn), Matthias Kloor (Department of Applied Tumor Biology Institute of Pathology Heidelberg University Hospital)