Histo-Diffusion: A Diffusion Super-Resolution Method for Digital Pathology with Comprehensive Quality Assessment
<|reference_start|>Histo-Diffusion: A Diffusion Super-Resolution Method for Digital Pathology with Comprehensive Quality Assessment: Digital pathology has advanced significantly over the last decade, with Whole Slide Images (WSIs) encompassing vast amounts of data essential for accurate disease diagnosis. High-resolution WSIs are essential for precise diagnosis but technical limitations in scanning equipment and variablity in slide preparation can hinder obtaining these images. Super-resolution techniques can enhance low-resolution images; while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been effective in natural image super-resolution tasks, they often struggle with histopathology due to overfitting and mode collapse. Traditional evaluation metrics fall short in assessing the complex characteristics of histopathology images, necessitating robust histology-specific evaluation methods.   We introduce Histo-Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based method specially designed for generating and evaluating super-resolution images in digital pathology. It includes a restoration module for histopathology prior and a controllable diffusion module for generating high-quality images. We have curated two histopathology datasets and proposed a comprehensive evaluation strategy which incorporates both full-reference and no-reference metrics to thoroughly assess the quality of digital pathology images.   Comparative analyses on multiple datasets with state-of-the-art methods reveal that Histo-Diffusion outperforms GANs. Our method offers a versatile solution for histopathology image super-resolution, capable of handling multi-resolution generation from varied input sizes, providing valuable support in diagnostic processes.<|reference_end|>
@article{xu2024histo-diffusion:,
    title={Histo-Diffusion: A Diffusion Super-Resolution Method for Digital
  Pathology with Comprehensive Quality Assessment},
    author={Xuan Xu, Saarthak Kapse, Prateek Prasanna},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15218},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.15218},
    primaryClass={eess.IV cs.CV}
}