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 …

Transformers in medical imaging: A survey

F Shamshad, S Khan, SW Zamir, MH Khan… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Following unprecedented success on the natural language tasks, Transformers have been
successfully applied to several computer vision problems, achieving state-of-the-art results …

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 …

Towards a general-purpose foundation model for computational pathology

RJ Chen, T Ding, MY Lu, DFK Williamson, G Jaume… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Quantitative evaluation of tissue images is crucial for computational pathology (CPath) tasks,
requiring the objective characterization of histopathological entities from whole-slide images …

A pathology foundation model for cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction

X Wang, J Zhao, E Marostica, W Yuan, J **, J Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Histopathology image evaluation is indispensable for cancer diagnoses and subtype
classification. Standard artificial intelligence methods for histopathology image analyses …

Transformer-based unsupervised contrastive learning for histopathological image classification

X Wang, S Yang, J Zhang, M Wang, J Zhang… - Medical image …, 2022 - Elsevier
A large-scale and well-annotated dataset is a key factor for the success of deep learning in
medical image analysis. However, assembling such large annotations is very challenging …

Dtfd-mil: Double-tier feature distillation multiple instance learning for histopathology whole slide image classification

H Zhang, Y Meng, Y Zhao, Y Qiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Multiple instance learning (MIL) has been increasingly used in the classification of
histopathology whole slide images (WSIs). However, MIL approaches for this specific …

[HTML][HTML] Transformers in medical image analysis

K He, C Gan, Z Li, I Rekik, Z Yin, W Ji, Y Gao, Q Wang… - Intelligent …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transformers have dominated the field of natural language processing and have recently
made an impact in the area of computer vision. In the field of medical image analysis …

Visual language pretrained multiple instance zero-shot transfer for histopathology images

MY Lu, B Chen, A Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Contrastive visual language pretraining has emerged as a powerful method for either
training new language-aware image encoders or augmenting existing pretrained models …

Transformer-based biomarker prediction from colorectal cancer histology: A large-scale multicentric study

SJ Wagner, D Reisenbüchler, NP West, JM Niehues… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Deep learning (DL) can accelerate the prediction of prognostic biomarkers from routine
pathology slides in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, current approaches rely on …