Vision transformers for computational histopathology

H Xu, Q Xu, F Cong, J Kang, C Han… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational histopathology is focused on the automatic analysis of rich phenotypic
information contained in gigabyte whole slide images, aiming at providing cancer patients …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of Transformer applications for histopathological image analysis: New developments and future directions

CC Atabansi, J Nie, H Liu, Q Song, L Yan… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2023 - Springer
Transformers have been widely used in many computer vision challenges and have shown
the capability of producing better results than convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Taking …

An enhanced vision transformer with wavelet position embedding for histopathological image classification

M Ding, A Qu, H Zhong, Z Lai, S Xiao, P He - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Histopathological image classification is a fundamental task in pathological diagnosis
workflow. It remains a huge challenge due to the complexity of histopathological images …

From modern CNNs to vision transformers: Assessing the performance, robustness, and classification strategies of deep learning models in histopathology

M Springenberg, A Frommholz, M Wenzel… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
While machine learning is currently transforming the field of histopathology, the domain
lacks a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art models based on essential but …

[HTML][HTML] Masked pre-training of transformers for histology image analysis

S Jiang, L Hondelink, AA Suriawinata… - Journal of Pathology …, 2024 - Elsevier
In digital pathology, whole-slide images (WSIs) are widely used for applications such as
cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction. Vision transformer (ViT) models have recently …

Transpath: Transformer-based self-supervised learning for histopathological image classification

X Wang, S Yang, J Zhang, M Wang, J Zhang… - … Image Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
A large-scale labeled dataset is a key factor for the success of supervised deep learning in
histopathological image analysis. However, exhaustive annotation requires a careful visual …

Vision transformers in medical computer vision—A contemplative retrospection

A Parvaiz, MA Khalid, R Zafar, H Ameer, M Ali… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Vision Transformers (ViTs), with the magnificent potential to unravel the information
contained within images, have evolved as one of the most contemporary and dominant …

Scorenet: Learning non-uniform attention and augmentation for transformer-based histopathological image classification

T Stegmüller, B Bozorgtabar… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Progress in digital pathology is hindered by high-resolution images and the prohibitive cost
of exhaustive localized annotations. The commonly used paradigm to categorize pathology …

Scaling vision transformers to gigapixel images via hierarchical self-supervised learning

RJ Chen, C Chen, Y Li, TY Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Vision Transformers (ViTs) and their multi-scale and hierarchical variations have
been successful at capturing image representations but their use has been generally …

Advances in medical image analysis with vision transformers: a comprehensive review

R Azad, A Kazerouni, M Heidari, EK Aghdam… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing
has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits …