arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

Refining Cytology Predictions with Conditional Random Fields

The paper introduces CytoCRF, a conditional random field framework tailored for cytology images. It adapts pairwise terms to focus on chromatin and cytology-specific staining and enriches neighborhood information by combining multiple backbone models. Across ten cytology datasets, CytoCRF surpasses existing CRF methods at all annotation budgets, achieving up to +13.6 percentage points over the best baseline and +33.7 over zero‑shot performance with only 50 annotations.

By Manon Dausort, Tiffanie Godelaine, Karim El Khoury, Maxime Zanella, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Beno\^it Macq
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

CytoBERT: A Foundation Model for Cytometry Data

arXiv:2608. 14414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cytometry measures the complex characteristics of single cells (e.

By Syed Abdul Haseeb Qadri, Bjarne C. Hiller, Felix Blanke, Vanja Sophie Cangalovic, Kutalm{\i}\c{s} Co\c{s}kun, Amin Mirzaei, Tom Siegl, Sebastian Bader, Thomas Kirste, Martin Becker
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 Machine Learning
Aug 12

Retrieval-Augmented Vision Foundation Models for Robust Leukemia Cell Classification across Multiple Microscopy Datasets

arXiv:2608. 10657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leukemia cell image classification is challenged by real-world domain shifts from acquisition, staining, illumination, and site protocols, causing single-dataset models to generalize poorly in real clinical scenarios.

By Carlos Zamora, Hiram Zuniga, Ulises Orozco-Rosas, Kenia Picos
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

TAM-Chain: Multi-Scale Thyroid Cytology Classification via Absorbing Markov Chains and Shannon Entropy Uncertainty Quantification for False-Negative Suppression and Domain-Shift Adaptation

TAM-Chain is a multi‑scale thyroid cytology classification framework that uses Absorbing Markov Chains and Shannon Entropy to quantify uncertainty and dynamically decide when to stop processing and refer to a specialist. It processes images at 10×, 20×, and 40× magnifications, achieving a Macro F1 score of 0.9741 on an internal test set with a 0 % false‑negative rate, and maintains a Macro F1 of 0.7026 on an external validation set with severe domain shift. The method outperforms single‑magnification baselines by adaptively adjusting stopping steps and triggering specialist referrals, thereby reducing critical diagnostic errors.

By Hai Pham Ngoc