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Main Authors: Shin, JaeWoong, Ryu, Jeongun, Puche, Aaron Valero, Lee, Jinhee, Brattoli, Biagio, Jung, Wonkyung, Cho, Soo Ick, Paeng, Kyunghyun, Ock, Chan-Young, Yoo, Donggeun, Li, Zhaoyang, Li, Wangkai, Mai, Huayu, Millward, Joshua, He, Zhen, Nibali, Aiden, Schoenpflug, Lydia Anette, Koelzer, Viktor Hendrik, Shuoyu, Xu, Zheng, Ji, Bin, Hu, Lo, Yu-Wen, Yang, Ching-Hui, Pereira, Sérgio
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09153
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author Shin, JaeWoong
Ryu, Jeongun
Puche, Aaron Valero
Lee, Jinhee
Brattoli, Biagio
Jung, Wonkyung
Cho, Soo Ick
Paeng, Kyunghyun
Ock, Chan-Young
Yoo, Donggeun
Li, Zhaoyang
Li, Wangkai
Mai, Huayu
Millward, Joshua
He, Zhen
Nibali, Aiden
Schoenpflug, Lydia Anette
Koelzer, Viktor Hendrik
Shuoyu, Xu
Zheng, Ji
Bin, Hu
Lo, Yu-Wen
Yang, Ching-Hui
Pereira, Sérgio
author_facet Shin, JaeWoong
Ryu, Jeongun
Puche, Aaron Valero
Lee, Jinhee
Brattoli, Biagio
Jung, Wonkyung
Cho, Soo Ick
Paeng, Kyunghyun
Ock, Chan-Young
Yoo, Donggeun
Li, Zhaoyang
Li, Wangkai
Mai, Huayu
Millward, Joshua
He, Zhen
Nibali, Aiden
Schoenpflug, Lydia Anette
Koelzer, Viktor Hendrik
Shuoyu, Xu
Zheng, Ji
Bin, Hu
Lo, Yu-Wen
Yang, Ching-Hui
Pereira, Sérgio
contents Pathologists routinely alternate between different magnifications when examining Whole-Slide Images, allowing them to evaluate both broad tissue morphology and intricate cellular details to form comprehensive diagnoses. However, existing deep learning-based cell detection models struggle to replicate these behaviors and learn the interdependent semantics between structures at different magnifications. A key barrier in the field is the lack of datasets with multi-scale overlapping cell and tissue annotations. The OCELOT 2023 challenge was initiated to gather insights from the community to validate the hypothesis that understanding cell and tissue (cell-tissue) interactions is crucial for achieving human-level performance, and to accelerate the research in this field. The challenge dataset includes overlapping cell detection and tissue segmentation annotations from six organs, comprising 673 pairs sourced from 306 The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Whole-Slide Images with hematoxylin and eosin staining, divided into training, validation, and test subsets. Participants presented models that significantly enhanced the understanding of cell-tissue relationships. Top entries achieved up to a 7.99 increase in F1-score on the test set compared to the baseline cell-only model that did not incorporate cell-tissue relationships. This is a substantial improvement in performance over traditional cell-only detection methods, demonstrating the need for incorporating multi-scale semantics into the models. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the methods used by participants, highlighting innovative strategies implemented in the OCELOT 2023 challenge.
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spellingShingle OCELOT 2023: Cell Detection from Cell-Tissue Interaction Challenge
Shin, JaeWoong
Ryu, Jeongun
Puche, Aaron Valero
Lee, Jinhee
Brattoli, Biagio
Jung, Wonkyung
Cho, Soo Ick
Paeng, Kyunghyun
Ock, Chan-Young
Yoo, Donggeun
Li, Zhaoyang
Li, Wangkai
Mai, Huayu
Millward, Joshua
He, Zhen
Nibali, Aiden
Schoenpflug, Lydia Anette
Koelzer, Viktor Hendrik
Shuoyu, Xu
Zheng, Ji
Bin, Hu
Lo, Yu-Wen
Yang, Ching-Hui
Pereira, Sérgio
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Pathologists routinely alternate between different magnifications when examining Whole-Slide Images, allowing them to evaluate both broad tissue morphology and intricate cellular details to form comprehensive diagnoses. However, existing deep learning-based cell detection models struggle to replicate these behaviors and learn the interdependent semantics between structures at different magnifications. A key barrier in the field is the lack of datasets with multi-scale overlapping cell and tissue annotations. The OCELOT 2023 challenge was initiated to gather insights from the community to validate the hypothesis that understanding cell and tissue (cell-tissue) interactions is crucial for achieving human-level performance, and to accelerate the research in this field. The challenge dataset includes overlapping cell detection and tissue segmentation annotations from six organs, comprising 673 pairs sourced from 306 The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Whole-Slide Images with hematoxylin and eosin staining, divided into training, validation, and test subsets. Participants presented models that significantly enhanced the understanding of cell-tissue relationships. Top entries achieved up to a 7.99 increase in F1-score on the test set compared to the baseline cell-only model that did not incorporate cell-tissue relationships. This is a substantial improvement in performance over traditional cell-only detection methods, demonstrating the need for incorporating multi-scale semantics into the models. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the methods used by participants, highlighting innovative strategies implemented in the OCELOT 2023 challenge.
title OCELOT 2023: Cell Detection from Cell-Tissue Interaction Challenge
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09153