Generative AI for Misalignment-Resistant Virtual Staining to Accelerate Histopathology Workflows
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| author | MA, Jiabo Li, Wenqiang Li, Jinbang Liu, Ziyi Wu, Linshan Zhou, Fengtao Liang, Li Chan, Ronald Cheong Kin Wong, Terence T. W. Chen, Hao |
| author_facet | MA, Jiabo Li, Wenqiang Li, Jinbang Liu, Ziyi Wu, Linshan Zhou, Fengtao Liang, Li Chan, Ronald Cheong Kin Wong, Terence T. W. Chen, Hao |
| contents | Accurate histopathological diagnosis often requires multiple differently stained tissue sections, a process that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and environmentally taxing due to the use of multiple chemical stains. Recently, virtual staining has emerged as a promising alternative that is faster, tissue-conserving, and environmentally friendly. However, existing virtual staining methods face significant challenges in clinical applications, primarily due to their reliance on well-aligned paired data. Obtaining such data is inherently difficult because chemical staining processes can distort tissue structures, and a single tissue section cannot undergo multiple staining procedures without damage or loss of information. As a result, most available virtual staining datasets are either unpaired or roughly paired, making it difficult for existing methods to achieve accurate pixel-level supervision. To address this challenge, we propose a robust virtual staining framework featuring cascaded registration mechanisms to resolve spatial mismatches between generated outputs and their corresponding ground truth. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models across five datasets, achieving an average improvement of 3.2% on internal datasets and 10.1% on external datasets. Moreover, in datasets with substantial misalignment, our approach achieves a remarkable 23.8% improvement in peak signal-to-noise ratio compared to baseline models. The exceptional robustness of the proposed method across diverse datasets simplifies the data acquisition process for virtual staining and offers new insights for advancing its development. |
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| spellingShingle | Generative AI for Misalignment-Resistant Virtual Staining to Accelerate Histopathology Workflows MA, Jiabo Li, Wenqiang Li, Jinbang Liu, Ziyi Wu, Linshan Zhou, Fengtao Liang, Li Chan, Ronald Cheong Kin Wong, Terence T. W. Chen, Hao Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Accurate histopathological diagnosis often requires multiple differently stained tissue sections, a process that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and environmentally taxing due to the use of multiple chemical stains. Recently, virtual staining has emerged as a promising alternative that is faster, tissue-conserving, and environmentally friendly. However, existing virtual staining methods face significant challenges in clinical applications, primarily due to their reliance on well-aligned paired data. Obtaining such data is inherently difficult because chemical staining processes can distort tissue structures, and a single tissue section cannot undergo multiple staining procedures without damage or loss of information. As a result, most available virtual staining datasets are either unpaired or roughly paired, making it difficult for existing methods to achieve accurate pixel-level supervision. To address this challenge, we propose a robust virtual staining framework featuring cascaded registration mechanisms to resolve spatial mismatches between generated outputs and their corresponding ground truth. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models across five datasets, achieving an average improvement of 3.2% on internal datasets and 10.1% on external datasets. Moreover, in datasets with substantial misalignment, our approach achieves a remarkable 23.8% improvement in peak signal-to-noise ratio compared to baseline models. The exceptional robustness of the proposed method across diverse datasets simplifies the data acquisition process for virtual staining and offers new insights for advancing its development. |
| title | Generative AI for Misalignment-Resistant Virtual Staining to Accelerate Histopathology Workflows |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14119 |