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

R Azad, A Kazerouni, M Heidari, EK Aghdam… - Medical Image …, 2024 - Elsevier
The remarkable performance of the Transformer architecture in natural language processing
has recently also triggered broad interest in Computer Vision. Among other merits …

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 …

Transmil: Transformer based correlated multiple instance learning for whole slide image classification

Z Shao, H Bian, Y Chen, Y Wang… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a powerful tool to solve the weakly supervised
classification in whole slide image (WSI) based pathology diagnosis. However, the current …

Differentiable patch selection for image recognition

JB Cordonnier, A Mahendran… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Neural Networks require large amounts of memory and compute to process high resolution
images, even when only a small part of the image is actually informative for the task at hand …

Multiple instance learning with center embeddings for histopathology classification

P Chikontwe, M Kim, SJ Nam, H Go… - Medical Image Computing …, 2020 - Springer
Histopathology image analysis plays an important role in the treatment and diagnosis of
cancer. However, analysis of whole slide images (WSI) with deep learning is challenging …

Prototypical multiple instance learning for predicting lymph node metastasis of breast cancer from whole-slide pathological images

JG Yu, Z Wu, Y Ming, S Deng, Y Li, C Ou, C He… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Computerized identification of lymph node metastasis of breast cancer (BCLNM) from whole-
slide pathological images (WSIs) can largely benefit therapy decision and prognosis …

Graph attention multi-instance learning for accurate colorectal cancer staging

A Raju, J Yao, MMH Haq, J Jonnagaddala… - … Image Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancer diagnosed in humans.
Outcomes vary significantly among patients with different tumor status. Accurate staging of …

Interpretable classification of pathology whole-slide images using attention based context-aware graph convolutional neural network

M Liang, Q Chen, B Li, L Wang, Y Wang… - Computer methods and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Whole slide image (WSI) classification and lesion
localization within giga-pixel slide are challenging tasks in computational pathology that …

Towards hierarchical regional transformer-based multiple instance learning

J Cersovsky, S Mohammadi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The classification of gigapixel histopathology images with deep multiple instance learning
models has become a critical task in digital pathology and precision medicine. In this work …

SAMPLER: unsupervised representations for rapid analysis of whole slide tissue images

P Mukashyaka, TB Sheridan, JH Chuang - EBioMedicine, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Deep learning has revolutionized digital pathology, allowing automatic analysis
of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained whole slide images (WSIs) for diverse tasks. WSIs …