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Main Authors: Štepec, Dejan, Jerše, Maja, Đokić, Snežana, Jeruc, Jera, Zidar, Nina, Skočaj, Danijel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16425
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author Štepec, Dejan
Jerše, Maja
Đokić, Snežana
Jeruc, Jera
Zidar, Nina
Skočaj, Danijel
author_facet Štepec, Dejan
Jerše, Maja
Đokić, Snežana
Jeruc, Jera
Zidar, Nina
Skočaj, Danijel
contents We present Patherea, a unified framework for point-based cell detection and classification that enables the development and fair evaluation of state-of-the-art methods. To support this, we introduce a large-scale dataset that replicates the clinical workflow for Ki-67 proliferation index estimation. Our method directly predicts cell locations and classes without relying on intermediate representations. It incorporates a hybrid Hungarian matching strategy for accurate point assignment and supports flexible backbones and training regimes, including recent pathology foundation models. Patherea achieves state-of-the-art performance on public datasets - Lizard, BRCA-M2C, and BCData - while highlighting performance saturation on these benchmarks. In contrast, our newly proposed Patherea dataset presents a significantly more challenging benchmark. Additionally, we identify and correct common errors in current evaluation protocols and provide an updated benchmarking utility for standardized assessment. The Patherea dataset and code are publicly available to facilitate further research and fair comparisons.
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spellingShingle Patherea: Cell Detection and Classification for the 2020s
Štepec, Dejan
Jerše, Maja
Đokić, Snežana
Jeruc, Jera
Zidar, Nina
Skočaj, Danijel
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We present Patherea, a unified framework for point-based cell detection and classification that enables the development and fair evaluation of state-of-the-art methods. To support this, we introduce a large-scale dataset that replicates the clinical workflow for Ki-67 proliferation index estimation. Our method directly predicts cell locations and classes without relying on intermediate representations. It incorporates a hybrid Hungarian matching strategy for accurate point assignment and supports flexible backbones and training regimes, including recent pathology foundation models. Patherea achieves state-of-the-art performance on public datasets - Lizard, BRCA-M2C, and BCData - while highlighting performance saturation on these benchmarks. In contrast, our newly proposed Patherea dataset presents a significantly more challenging benchmark. Additionally, we identify and correct common errors in current evaluation protocols and provide an updated benchmarking utility for standardized assessment. The Patherea dataset and code are publicly available to facilitate further research and fair comparisons.
title Patherea: Cell Detection and Classification for the 2020s
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16425