TY - JOUR A1 - Meuten, Donald J. A1 - Moore, Frances M. A1 - Donovan, Taryn A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Foster, Robert A. A1 - Smedley, Rebecca C. A1 - Dark, Michael A1 - Milovancev, Milan A1 - Stromberg, Paul A1 - Williams, Bruce H. A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Avallone, Giancarlo A1 - Bolfa, Pompei A1 - Cullen, John A1 - Dennis, Michelle M. A1 - Goldschmidt, Michael A1 - Luong, Richard A1 - Miller, Andrew D. A1 - Miller, Margaret A. A1 - Munday, John S. A1 - Roccabianca, Paola A1 - Salas, Elisa N. A1 - Schulman, F. Yvonne A1 - Laufer-Amorim, Renee A1 - Asakawa, Midori G. A1 - Craig, Linden A1 - Dervisis, Nick A1 - Esplin, D. Glen A1 - George, Jeanne W. A1 - Hauck, Marlene A1 - Kagawa, Yumiko A1 - Kiupel, Matti A1 - Linder, Keith A1 - Meichner, Kristina A1 - Marconato, Laura A1 - Oblak, Michelle L. A1 - Santos, Renato L. A1 - Simpson, R. Mark A1 - Tvedten, Harold A1 - Whitley, Derick T1 - International Guidelines for Veterinary Tumor Pathology: A Call to Action JF - Veterinary Pathology UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/03009858211013712 KW - standardization KW - oncology KW - guidelines KW - protocols KW - validation Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/03009858211013712 SN - 1544-2217 VL - 58 IS - 5 SP - 766 EP - 794 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Bartel, Alexander A1 - Donovan, Taryn A1 - Assenmacher, Charles-Antoine A1 - Becker, Kathrin A1 - Bennett, Mark A1 - Corner, Sarah M. A1 - Cossic, Brieuc A1 - Denk, Daniela A1 - Dettwiler, Martina A1 - Garcia Gonzalez, Beatriz A1 - Gurtner, Corinne A1 - Heier, Annabelle A1 - Lehmbecker, Annika A1 - Merz, Sophie A1 - Plog, Stephanie A1 - Schmidt, Anja A1 - Sebastian, Franziska A1 - Smedley, Rebecca C. A1 - Tecilla, Marco A1 - Thaiwong, Tuddow A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Kiupel, Matti A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Influence of inter-annotator variability on automatic mitotic figure assessment T2 - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_56 Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_56 SN - 978-3-658-33198-6 SP - 241 EP - 246 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Donovan, Taryn A1 - Tecilla, Marco A1 - Bartenschlager, Florian A1 - Fragoso-Garcia, Marco A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Dataset on bi- and multi-nucleated tumor cells in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors T2 - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021: Proceedings, German Workshop on Medical Image Computing, Regensburg, March 7–9, 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_33 Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_33 SN - 978-3-658-33197-9 SN - 978-3-658-33198-6 SN - 1431-472X SP - 134 EP - 139 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Voigt, Jörn A1 - Barton, Ann K. A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Cell detection for asthma on partially annotated whole slide images BT - learning to be EXACT T2 - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021: Proceedings, German Workshop on Medical Image Computing, Regensburg, March 7–9, 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_36 Y1 - 2021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_36 SN - 978-3-658-33197-9 SN - 978-3-658-33198-6 SN - 1431-472X SP - 147 EP - 152 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Investigation of Class Separability within Object Detection Models in Histopathology JF - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2025.3560134 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2025.3560134 SN - 0278-0062 SN - 1558-254X VL - 44 IS - 8 SP - 3162 EP - 3174 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oetter, Nicolai A1 - Pröll, Jonas A1 - Sievert, Matti A1 - Goncalves, Miguel A1 - Rohde, Maximilian A1 - Nobis, Christopher-Philipp A1 - Knipfer, Christian A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Pan, Zhaoya A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Kesting, Marco A1 - Stelzle, Florian T1 - Oral mucosa - an examination map for confocal laser endomicroscopy within the oral cavity: an experimental clinical study JF - Clinical Oral Investigations N2 - Objectives Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is an optical method that enables microscopic visualization of oral mucosa. Previous studies have shown that it is possible to differentiate between physiological and malignant oral mucosa. However, differences in mucosal architecture were not taken into account. The objective was to map the different oral mucosal morphologies and to establish a “CLE map” of physiological mucosa as baseline for further application of this powerful technology. Materials and methods The CLE database consisted of 27 patients. The following spots were examined: (1) upper lip (intraoral) (2) alveolar ridge (3) lateral tongue (4) floor of the mouth (5) hard palate (6) intercalary line. All sequences were examined by two CLE experts for morphological differences and video quality. Results Analysis revealed clear differences in image quality and possibility of depicting tissue morphologies between the various localizations of oral mucosa: imaging of the alveolar ridge and hard palate showed visually most discriminative tissue morphology. Labial mucosa was also visualized well using CLE. Here, typical morphological features such as uniform cells with regular intercellular gaps and vessels could be clearly depicted. Image generation and evaluation was particularly difficult in the area of the buccal mucosa, the lateral tongue and the floor of the mouth. Conclusion A physiological “CLE map” for the entire oral cavity could be created for the first time. Clinical relevance This will make it possible to take into account the existing physiological morphological features when differentiating between normal mucosa and oral squamous cell carcinoma in future work. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00784-024-05664-9 KW - Confocal laser endomicroscopy KW - Oral cavity KW - Oral carcinoma KW - Optical methods KW - Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma KW - Head and neck cancer Y1 - 2024 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00784-024-05664-9 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-56000 SN - 1436-3771 VL - 28 IS - 5 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Rosbach, Emely A1 - Lausser, Ludwig A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Benchmarking Foundation Models for Mitotic Figure Classification JF - Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging N2 - The performance of deep learning models is known to scale with data quantity and diversity. In pathology, as in many other medical imaging domains, the availability of labeled images for a specific task is often limited. Self-supervised learning techniques have enabled the use of vast amounts of unlabeled data to train large-scale neural networks, i.e., foundation models, that can address the limited data problem by providing semantically rich feature vectors that can generalize well to new tasks with minimal training effort increasing model performance and robustness. In this work, we investigate the use of foundation models for mitotic figure classification. The mitotic count, which can be derived from this classification task, is an independent prognostic marker for specific tumors and part of certain tumor grading systems. In particular, we investigate the data scaling laws on multiple current foundation models and evaluate their robustness to unseen tumor domains. Next to the commonly used linear probing paradigm, we also adapt the models using low-rank adaptation (LoRA) of their attention mechanisms. We compare all models against end-to-end-trained baselines, both CNNs and Vision Transformers. Our results demonstrate that LoRA-adapted foundation models provide superior performance to those adapted with standard linear probing, reaching performance levels close to 100 % data availability with only 10 % of training data. Furthermore, LoRA-adaptation of the most recent foundation models almost closes the out-of-domain performance gap when evaluated on unseen tumor domains. However, full fine-tuning of traditional architectures still yields competitive performance. UR - https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-a3eb Y1 - 2026 UR - https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-a3eb UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-66220 SN - 2766-905X VL - 3 IS - MELBA–BVM 2025 Special Issue SP - 38 EP - 55 PB - Melba editors CY - [s. l.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rosbach, Emely A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Riener, Andreas A1 - Aubreville, Marc ED - Palm, Christoph ED - Breininger, Katharina ED - Deserno, Thomas Martin ED - Handels, Heinz ED - Maier, Andreas ED - Maier-Hein, Klaus H. ED - Tolxdorff, Thomas T1 - Automation Bias in AI-assisted Medical Decision-making under Time Pressure in Computational Pathology T2 - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025: Proceedings, German Conference on Medical Image Computing, Regensburg March 09–11, 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_27 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_27 SN - 978-3-658-47422-5 SP - 129 EP - 134 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Rosbach, Emely A1 - Lausser, Ludwig A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc ED - Palm, Christoph ED - Breininger, Katharina ED - Deserno, Thomas Martin ED - Handels, Heinz ED - Maier, Andreas ED - Maier-Hein, Klaus H. ED - Tolxdorff, Thomas T1 - Is Self-supervision Enough? BT - Benchmarking Foundation Models Against End-to-end Training for Mitotic Figure Classification T2 - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025: Proceedings, German Conference on Medical Image Computing, Regensburg March 09–11, 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_15 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_15 SN - 978-3-658-47422-5 SP - 63 EP - 68 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - INPR A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Rosbach, Emely A1 - Lausser, Ludwig A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Benchmarking Foundation Models for Mitotic Figure Classification UR - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.04441 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.04441 PB - arXiv CY - Ithaca ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Puget, Chloé A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Conrad, Thomas A1 - Baeblich, Malte A1 - Voss, Anne A1 - Landmann, Katharina A1 - Haake, Alexander F. H. A1 - Spree, Andreas A1 - Hartung, Svenja A1 - Aeschlimann, Leonore A1 - Soto, Sara A1 - de Brot, Simone A1 - Dettwiler, Martina A1 - Aupperle-Lellbach, Heike A1 - Bolfa, Pompei A1 - Bartel, Alexander A1 - Kiupel, Matti A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert T1 - Artificial intelligence predicts c-KIT exon 11 genotype by phenotype in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors: Can human observers learn it? JF - Veterinary Pathology N2 - Canine cutaneous mast cell tumors (ccMCTs) are frequent neoplasms with variable biological behaviors. Internal tandem duplication mutations in c-KIT exon 11 (c-KIT-11-ITD) are associated with poor prognosis but predict therapeutic response to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In a previous work, deep learning algorithms managed to predict the presence of c-KIT-11-ITD on digitalized hematoxylin and eosin-stained histological slides (whole-slide images, WSIs) in up to 87% of cases, suggesting the existence of morphological features characterizing ccMCTs carrying c-KIT-11-ITD. This 3-stage blinded study aimed to identify morphological features indicative of c-KIT-11-ITD and to evaluate the ability of human observers to learn this task. 17 untrained pathologists first classified 8 WSIs and 200 image patches (highly relevant for algorithmic classification) of ccMCTs as either positive or negative for c-KIT-11-ITD. Second, they self-trained to recognize c-KIT-11-ITD by looking at the same WSIs and patches correctly sorted. Third, pathologists classified 15 new WSIs and 200 new patches according to c-KIT-11-ITD status. In addition, participants reported microscopic features they considered relevant for their decision. Without training, participants correctly classified the c-KIT-11-ITD status of 63%–88% of WSIs and 43%–55% of patches. With self-training, 25%–38% of WSIs and 55%–56% of patches were correctly classified. High cellular pleomorphism, anisokaryosis, and sparse cytoplasmic granulation were commonly suggested as features associated with c-KIT-11-ITD-positive ccMCTs, none of which showed reliable predictivity in a follow-up study. The results indicate that transfer of algorithmic skills to the human observer is difficult. A c-KIT-11-ITD-specific morphological feature remains to be extracted from the artificial intelligence model. UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/03009858251380284 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/03009858251380284 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-63841 SN - 1544-2217 VL - 63 IS - 2 SP - 369 EP - 379 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rosbach, Emely A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Conrad, Thomas A1 - Riener, Andreas A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Stuck on Suggestions: Automation Bias, the Anchoring Effect, and the Factors That Shape Them in Computational Pathology JF - Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging N2 - Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical decision support systems (CDSS) hold promise to improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in computational pathology. However, collaboration between human experts and AI may give rise to cognitive biases, such as automation and anchoring bias, wherein users may be inclined to blindly adopt system recommendations or be disproportionately influenced by the presence of AI predictions, even when they are inaccurate. These biases may be exacerbated under time pressure, pervasive in routine pathology diagnostics, or shaped by individual user characteristics. To investigate these effects, we conducted a web-based experiment in which trained pathology experts (n = 28) estimated tumor cell percentages twice: once independently and once with the aid of an AI. A subset of the estimates in each condition was performed under time constraints. Our findings indicate that AI integration generally enhances diagnostic performance. However, it also introduced a 7% automation bias rate, quantified as the number of accepted negative consultations, where a previously correct independent assessment gets overturned by inaccurate AI guidance. While time pressure did not increase the frequency of automation bias occurrence, it appeared to intensify its severity, as evidenced by a performance decline linked to increased automation reliance under cognitive load. A linear mixed-effects model (LMM) analysis, simulating weighted averaging, revealed a statistically significant positive coefficient for AI advice, indicating a moderate degree of anchoring on system output. This effect was further intensified under time pressure, suggesting that anchoring bias may become more pronounced when cognitive resources are limited. A secondary LMM evaluation assessing automation reliance, used as a proxy for both automation and anchoring bias, demonstrated that professional experience and self-efficacy were associated with reduced dependence on system support, whereas higher confidence during AI-assisted decision-making was linked to increased automation reliance. Together, these findings underscore the dual nature of AI integration in clinical workflows, offering performance benefits while also introducing risks of cognitive bias–driven diagnostic errors. As an initial investigation focused on a single medical specialty and diagnostic task, this study aims to lay the groundwork for future research to explore these phenomena across diverse clinical contexts, ultimately supporting the establishment of appropriate reliance on automated systems and the safe, effective integration of human–AI collaboration in medical decision-making. UR - https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-87b1 Y1 - 2026 UR - https://doi.org/10.59275/j.melba.2026-87b1 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-67787 SN - 2766-905X VL - 3 IS - MELBA–BVM 2025 Special Issue SP - 126 EP - 147 PB - Melba editors CY - [s. l.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Puget, Chloé A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Ostermaier, Julian A1 - Conrad, Thomas A1 - Parlak, Eda A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Kiupel, Matti A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert T1 - Artificial intelligence can be trained to predict c-KIT-11 mutational status of canine mast cell tumors from hematoxylin and eosin-stained histological slides JF - Veterinary Pathology N2 - Numerous prognostic factors are currently assessed histologically and immunohistochemically in canine mast cell tumors (MCTs) to evaluate clinical behavior. In addition, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is often performed to detect internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations in exon 11 of the c-KIT gene ( c-KIT-11-ITD) to predict the therapeutic response to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. This project aimed at training deep learning models (DLMs) to identify MCTs with c-KIT-11-ITD solely based on morphology. Hematoxylin and eosin (HE) stained slides of 368 cutaneous, subcutaneous, and mucocutaneous MCTs (195 with ITD and 173 without) were stained consecutively in 2 different laboratories and scanned with 3 different slide scanners. This resulted in 6 data sets (stain-scanner variations representing diagnostic institutions) of whole-slide images. DLMs were trained with single and mixed data sets and their performances were assessed under stain-scanner variations (domain shifts). The DLM correctly classified HE slides according to their c-KIT-11-ITD status in up to 87% of cases with a 0.90 sensitivity and a 0.83 specificity. A relevant performance drop could be observed when the stain-scanner combination of training and test data set differed. Multi-institutional data sets improved the average accuracy but did not reach the maximum accuracy of algorithms trained and tested on the same stain-scanner variant (ie, intra-institutional). In summary, DLM-based morphological examination can predict c-KIT-11-ITD with high accuracy in canine MCTs in HE slides. However, staining protocol and scanner type influence accuracy. Larger data sets of scans from different laboratories and scanners may lead to more robust DLMs to identify c- KIT mutations in HE slides. UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/03009858241286806 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/03009858241286806 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-53323 SN - 1544-2217 SN - 0300-9858 VL - 62 IS - 2 SP - 152 EP - 160 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Fragoso-Garcia, Marco A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Qiu, Jingna A1 - Puget, Chloé A1 - Diehl, Laura A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Aubreville, Marc T1 - Pan-tumor CAnine cuTaneous Cancer Histology (CATCH) dataset JF - Scientific Data N2 - Due to morphological similarities, the differentiation of histologic sections of cutaneous tumors into individual subtypes can be challenging. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have proven their potential for supporting pathologists in this regard. However, many of these supervised algorithms require a large amount of annotated data for robust development. We present a publicly available dataset of 350 whole slide images of seven different canine cutaneous tumors complemented by 12,424 polygon annotations for 13 histologic classes, including seven cutaneous tumor subtypes. In inter-rater experiments, we show a high consistency of the provided labels, especially for tumor annotations. We further validate the dataset by training a deep neural network for the task of tissue segmentation and tumor subtype classification. We achieve a class-averaged Jaccard coefficient of 0.7047, and 0.9044 for tumor in particular. For classification, we achieve a slide-level accuracy of 0.9857. Since canine cutaneous tumors possess various histologic homologies to human tumors the added value of this dataset is not limited to veterinary pathology but extends to more general fields of application. UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01692-w Y1 - 2022 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01692-w UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-28741 SN - 2052-4463 VL - 9 PB - Springer CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Stathonikos, Nikolas A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Donovan, Taryn A1 - Jabari, Samir A1 - Veta, Mitko A1 - Ganz, Jonathan A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - van Diest, Paul J A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Bertram, Christof T1 - A comprehensive multi-domain dataset for mitotic figure detection JF - Scientific Data N2 - The prognostic value of mitotic figures in tumor tissue is well-established for many tumor types and automating this task is of high research interest. However, especially deep learning-based methods face performance deterioration in the presence of domain shifts, which may arise from different tumor types, slide preparation and digitization devices. We introduce the MIDOG++ dataset, an extension of the MIDOG 2021 and 2022 challenge datasets. We provide region of interest images from 503 histological specimens of seven different tumor types with variable morphology with in total labels for 11,937 mitotic figures: breast carcinoma, lung carcinoma, lymphosarcoma, neuroendocrine tumor, cutaneous mast cell tumor, cutaneous melanoma, and (sub)cutaneous soft tissue sarcoma. The specimens were processed in several laboratories utilizing diverse scanners. We evaluated the extent of the domain shift by using state-of-the-art approaches, observing notable differences in single-domain training. In a leave-one-domain-out setting, generalizability improved considerably. This mitotic figure dataset is the first that incorporates a wide domain shift based on different tumor types, laboratories, whole slide image scanners, and species. UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02327-4 Y1 - 2023 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02327-4 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-40068 SN - 2052-4463 N1 - Author Correction verfügbar unter https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03548-x VL - 10 PB - Springer CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Donovan, Taryn A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert T1 - A completely annotated whole slide image dataset of canine breast cancer to aid human breast cancer research JF - Scientific data N2 - Canine mammary carcinoma (CMC) has been used as a model to investigate the pathogenesis of human breast cancer and the same grading scheme is commonly used to assess tumor malignancy in both. One key component of this grading scheme is the density of mitotic figures (MF). Current publicly available datasets on human breast cancer only provide annotations for small subsets of whole slide images (WSIs). We present a novel dataset of 21 WSIs of CMC completely annotated for MF. For this, a pathologist screened all WSIs for potential MF and structures with a similar appearance. A second expert blindly assigned labels, and for non-matching labels, a third expert assigned the final labels. Additionally, we used machine learning to identify previously undetected MF. Finally, we performed representation learning and two-dimensional projection to further increase the consistency of the annotations. Our dataset consists of 13,907 MF and 36,379 hard negatives. We achieved a mean F1-score of 0.791 on the test set and of up to 0.696 on a human breast cancer dataset. UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00756-z Y1 - 2020 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00756-z UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-11765 SN - 2052-4463 VL - 7 PB - Springer CY - London ER - TY - INPR A1 - Ivan, Zsanett Zsofia A1 - Hirling, Dominik A1 - Grexa, Istvan A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Micsik, Tamas A1 - Dobra, Katalin A1 - Kuthi, Levente A1 - Sukosd, Farkas A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Miczan, Vivien A1 - Horvath, Peter T1 - Subphase-Labeled Mitotic Dataset for AI-powered Cell Division Analysis N2 - Mitosis detection represents a critical task in the field of digital pathology, as determination of the mitotic index (MI) plays an important role in the tumor grading and prognostic assessment of patients. Manual determination of MI is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task for practitioners with rather high interobserver variability, thus, automation has become a priority. There has been substantial progress towards creating robust mitosis detection algorithms in recent years, primarily driven by the Mitosis Domain Generalization (MIDOG) challenges. In parallel, there has been growing interest in the molecular characterization of mitosis with the goal of achieving a more comprehensive understanding of its underlying mechanisms in a subphase-specific manner. Here, we introduce a new mitotic figure dataset annotated with subphase information based on the MIDOG++ dataset as well as a previously unrepresented tumor domain to enhance the diversity and applicability of the dataset. We envision a new perspective for domain generalization by improving the performance of models with subtyping mitotic cells into the 5 main stages of normal mitosis, complemented with an atypical mitotic class. We believe that our work broadens the horizon in digital pathology: subtyping information could provide useful help for mitosis detection, while also providing promising new directions in answering biological questions, such as molecular analysis of the subphases on a single cell level. UR - https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.17.665280 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.17.665280 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-64587 PB - bioRxiv CY - Cold Spring Harbor ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Hill, Jenny A1 - Stayt, Jason A1 - Bienzle, Dorothee A1 - Welker, Lutz A1 - Wilm, Frauke A1 - Voigt, Jörn A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Breininger, Katharina A1 - Bertram, Christof T1 - Inter-species cell detection - datasets on pulmonary hemosiderophages in equine, human and feline specimens JF - Scientific Data N2 - Pulmonary hemorrhage (P-Hem) occurs among multiple species and can have various causes. Cytology of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) using a 5-tier scoring system of alveolar macrophages based on their hemosiderin content is considered the most sensitive diagnostic method. We introduce a novel, fully annotated multi-species P-Hem dataset, which consists of 74 cytology whole slide images (WSIs) with equine, feline and human samples. To create this high-quality and high-quantity dataset, we developed an annotation pipeline combining human expertise with deep learning and data visualisation techniques. We applied a deep learning-based object detection approach trained on 17 expertly annotated equine WSIs, to the remaining 39 equine, 12 human and 7 feline WSIs. The resulting annotations were semi-automatically screened for errors on multiple types of specialised annotation maps and finally reviewed by a trained pathologist. Our dataset contains a total of 297,383 hemosiderophages classified into five grades. It is one of the largest publicly available WSIs datasets with respect to the number of annotations, the scanned area and the number of species covered. UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01389-0 Y1 - 2022 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01389-0 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-29319 SN - 2052-4463 VL - 9 PB - Springer CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Marzahl, Christian A1 - Maier, Andreas A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert T1 - A large-scale dataset for mitotic figure assessment on whole slide images of canine cutaneous mast cell tumor JF - Scientific data N2 - We introduce a novel, large-scale dataset for microscopy cell annotations. The dataset includes 32 whole slide images (WSI) of canine cutaneous mast cell tumors, selected to include both low grade cases as well as high grade cases. The slides have been completely annotated for mitotic figures and we provide secondary annotations for neoplastic mast cells, inflammatory granulocytes, and mitotic figure look-alikes. Additionally to a blinded two-expert manual annotation with consensus, we provide an algorithm-aided dataset, where potentially missed mitotic figures were detected by a deep neural network and subsequently assessed by two human experts. We included 262,481 annotations in total, out of which 44,880 represent mitotic figures. For algorithmic validation, we used a customized RetinaNet approach, followed by a cell classification network. We find F1-Scores of 0.786 and 0.820 for the manually labelled and the algorithm-aided dataset, respectively. The dataset provides, for the first time, WSIs completely annotated for mitotic figures and thus enables assessment of mitosis detection algorithms on complete WSIs as well as region of interest detection algorithms. UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0290-4 Y1 - 2019 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0290-4 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-11838 SN - 2052-4463 VL - 6 PB - Springer CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ivan, Zsanett Zsofia A1 - Hirling, Dominik A1 - Grexa, Istvan A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Molnar, Csaba A1 - Micsik, Tamas A1 - Dobra, Katalin A1 - Kuthi, Levente A1 - Sukosd, Farkas A1 - Fillinger, Janos A1 - Moldvay, Judit A1 - Toth, Erika A1 - Aubreville, Marc A1 - Miczan, Vivien A1 - Horvath, Peter T1 - A Subphase-Labeled Mitotic Dataset for AI-powered Cell Division Analysis JF - Scientific Data N2 - Mitosis detection represents a critical task in digital pathology, as it plays an important role in the tumor grading and prognosis of patients. Manual determination is a labor-intensive task for practitioners with high interobserver variability, thus, automation is a priority. There has been substantial progress towards creating robust mitosis detection algorithms, primarily driven by the Mitosis Domain Generalization (MIDOG) challenges. Also, there has been growing interest in the molecular characterization of mitosis to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of its underlying mechanisms in a subphase-specific manner. We introduce a new mitotic figure dataset annotated with subphase information based on the MIDOG++ dataset as well as a previously unrepresented tumor domain to enhance the diversity and applicability. We envision a new perspective for domain generalization by improving model performance with subtyping mitosis, complemented with an atypical mitotic class. Our work has implications in two main areas: subtyping information can provide helpful information in mitosis detection, while also providing promising new directions in answering biological questions, such as molecular analysis of subphases. UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07007-7 Y1 - 2026 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07007-7 SN - 2052-4463 SP - 17 PB - Springer CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bertram, Christof A1 - Weiss, Viktoria A1 - Donovan, Taryn A1 - Banerjee, Sweta A1 - Conrad, Thomas A1 - Ammeling, Jonas A1 - Klopfleisch, Robert A1 - Kaltenecker, Christopher A1 - Aubreville, Marc ED - Palm, Christoph ED - Breininger, Katharina ED - Deserno, Thomas Martin ED - Handels, Heinz ED - Maier, Andreas ED - Maier-Hein, Klaus H. ED - Tolxdorff, Thomas T1 - Histologic Dataset of Normal and Atypical Mitotic Figures on Human Breast Cancer (AMi-Br) T2 - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025: Proceedings, German Conference on Medical Image Computing, Regensburg March 09–11, 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_25 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_25 SN - 978-3-658-47422-5 SP - 113 EP - 118 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER -