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  • Article
  • Open Access
784 Views
19 Pages

Domain-Adaptive Transfer Learning for HPV Lesion Classification in Whole Slide Images: A Patient-Level Pipeline Across the Cytology–Histology Continuum

  • Annabella Di Mauro,
  • Pasquale De Luca,
  • Maria Lina Tornesello,
  • Emanuel Di Nardo and ,
  • Luca D’Anna,
  • Andrea Cerasuolo,
  • Veronica Sanna,
  • Saverio Simonelli,
  • Vincenzo Gigantino and
  • Angelo Ciaramella
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

The clinical translation of automated HPV detection in Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is challenged by staining variability, sparse viral effects, and the biological continuum between cytology and histology. This work presents a fully automated pipeline f...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
715 Views
23 Pages

ECAViT-Net: A Lightweight Hybrid CNN-Transformer Architecture for Efficient Cervical Cytological Cell Classification

  • Mamadou Eric Sangare,
  • Boujemaa Nassiri,
  • Youssef El Habouz,
  • Yousef El Mourabit and ,
  • Hamidou Tembine and
  • Bsiss Mohammed Aziz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 May 2026

Cervical cancer, primarily caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, remains a major cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, making early detection through cytological screening essential. However, manual analysis of cytology i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI for Medical Systems: Algorithms, Applications, and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,400 Views
13 Pages

27 June 2025

Background/Objectives: Cervical cancer, the fourth most common malignancy in women worldwide, continues to pose a significant threat to global health. Manual examination of the Pap smear image is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to human er...

(This article belongs to the Section Methods and Technologies Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Citations
12,240 Views
22 Pages

Computer-Assisted Screening for Cervical Cancer Using Digital Image Processing of Pap Smear Images

  • Kyi Pyar Win,
  • Yuttana Kitjaidure,
  • Kazuhiko Hamamoto and
  • Thet Myo Aung

5 March 2020

Cervical cancer can be prevented by having regular screenings to find any precancers and treat them. The Pap test looks for any abnormal or precancerous changes in the cells on the cervix. However, the manual screening of Pap smear in the microscope...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,974 Views
10 Pages

Guarded Diagnosis: Preserving Privacy in Cervical Cancer Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks on Pap Smear Images

  • Sanmugasundaram Ravichandran,
  • Hui-Kai Su,
  • Wen-Kai Kuo,
  • Manikandan Mahalingam and ,
  • Kanimozhi Janarthanan,
  • Kabilan Saravanan and
  • Bruhathi Sathyanarayanan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Advancements in image processing have advanced medical diagnostics, especially in image classification, impacting healthcare by offering faster and more accurate analyses of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and X-rays. The manual examination of these...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,596 Views
14 Pages

Cervical Cell Image Classification-Based Knowledge Distillation

  • Wenjian Gao,
  • Chuanyun Xu,
  • Gang Li,
  • Yang Zhang and ,
  • Nanlan Bai and
  • Mengwei Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Current deep-learning-based cervical cell classification methods suffer from parameter redundancy and poor model generalization performance, which creates challenges for the intelligent classification of cervical cytology smear images. In this paper,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,230 Views
19 Pages

Color Space Comparison of Isolated Cervix Cells for Morphology Classification

  • Irari Jiménez-López,
  • José E. Valdez-Rodríguez and
  • Marco A. Moreno-Armendáriz

7 October 2025

Cervical cytology processing involves the morphological analysis of cervical cells to detect abnormalities. In recent years, machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been explored to automate this process. This study investigates the use of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Bio and Healthcare Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,432 Views
21 Pages

Novelty Classification Model Use in Reinforcement Learning for Cervical Cancer

  • Shakhnoza Muksimova,
  • Sabina Umirzakova,
  • Khusanboy Shoraimov,
  • Jushkin Baltayev and
  • Young-Im Cho

10 November 2024

Purpose: Cervical cancer significantly impacts global health, where early detection is piv- otal for improving patient outcomes. This study aims to enhance the accuracy of cervical cancer diagnosis by addressing class imbalance through a novel hybrid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Screening)
  • Article
  • Open Access
523 Views
30 Pages

PathoSafe: Sub-1 KB Out-of-Distribution Rejection and Cluster-Aware Certification for Point-of-Care Pathogen Biosensing

  • Gaoming He,
  • Mengdi Hou,
  • Jianbo Huang,
  • Longquan Chen and ,
  • Qihuang Gao and
  • Bitie Lan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 September 2026

A point-of-care pathogen-microscopy readout must signal when a sample falls outside what its detector was trained on. PathoSafe is an 816-byte int8-projection low-rank Mahalanobis out-of-distribution (OOD) head reading a frozen detector’s penul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Biosensing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,056 Views
26 Pages

Automated analysis of liquid-based cervical cytology is increasingly supported by digital microscopy and deep learning. However, model generalization remains challenging due to scanner- and laboratory-induced domain shifts affecting color, texture, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Biomedical Image Segmentation, Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
336 Views
21 Pages

Reliable cervical cytology classification remains difficult when rare diagnostic categories are represented by only a few labeled examples and exhibit substantial morphological overlap with neighboring classes. This study introduces HardNegRect, a li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Bioelectronics: 2025–2026 Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,484 Views
49 Pages

9 February 2026

Malignant lymphoma and other cancer types remain major global health concerns due to their rapid progression and potential for fatal outcomes. Conventional diagnostic approaches are often invasive and time-consuming, contributing to delays in early d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric and Symmetric in Deep Computer Vision and Generative Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
5,773 Views
16 Pages

Medical image analysis and classification is an important application of computer vision wherein disease prediction based on an input image is provided to assist healthcare professionals. There are many deep learning architectures that accept the dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Imaging of Cervical Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,325 Views
21 Pages

ViT-PSO-SVM: Cervical Cancer Predication Based on Integrating Vision Transformer with Particle Swarm Optimization and Support Vector Machine

  • Abdulaziz AlMohimeed,
  • Mohamed Shehata,
  • Nora El-Rashidy,
  • Sherif Mostafa and ,
  • Amira Samy Talaat and
  • Hager Saleh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Cervical cancer (CCa) is the fourth most prevalent and common cancer affecting women worldwide, with increasing incidence and mortality rates. Hence, early detection of CCa plays a crucial role in improving outcomes. Non-invasive imaging procedures w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deciphering Medicine: The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
28 Pages

Towards Explainable and Robust Cervical Cancer Screening Using Domain-Specific Transfer Learning Algorithm

  • Jheelam Mondal,
  • Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria,
  • Rajdeep Chatterjee,
  • Amitkumar V. Jha and ,
  • Bhargav Appasani,
  • Nicu Bizon and
  • Cristian Toma
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 July 2026

Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent malignancy in women globally. Pap smear screening is important for early cancer detection, but manual smear analysis is time-consuming, labor-intensive and error-prone for diagnosis. Such issues in resource...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Powered Biomedical Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,666 Views
12 Pages

24 April 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have resulted in remarkable achievements and conferred massive benefits to computer-aided systems in medical imaging. However, the worldwide usage of AI-based automation-assisted cervical cancer screening sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)