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Tingying Peng

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5 published item(s)

preprint2026arXiv

Vision Transformer-Conditioned UNet for Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

Semantic segmentation is essential for analysing anatomical features in biomedical research, yet a performance gap remains for Vision Transformers (ViTs) in the field, particularly for sparse, fine-structured, and low signal-to-noise targets. We attribute this challenge in part to the lightweight pixel decoders commonly used in promptable ViT models, who may lack the local inductive bias needed for high-precision biomedical masks. We bridge this gap by introducing ViTC-UNet, which conditions a UNet on frozen pre-trained ViT representations through learnable tokens and a two-way attention decoder. This combines ViT global visual priors with the local inductive bias and high-resolution decoding capacity of UNets, while avoiding end-to-end ViT fine-tuning even in cross-domain settings. ViTC-UNet outperforms baseline results in semantic segmentation tasks across MRI and CT modalities, demonstrating that structure-conditioned UNet decoding can efficiently adapt large-scale visual priors to high-complexity biomedical segmentation.

preprint2022arXiv

DeStripe: A Self2Self Spatio-Spectral Graph Neural Network with Unfolded Hessian for Stripe Artifact Removal in Light-sheet Microscopy

Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is a cutting-edge volumetric imaging technique that allows for three-dimensional imaging of mesoscopic samples with decoupled illumination and detection paths. Although the selective excitation scheme of such a microscope provides intrinsic optical sectioning that minimizes out-of-focus fluorescence background and sample photodamage, it is prone to light absorption and scattering effects, which results in uneven illumination and striping artifacts in the images adversely. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we propose a blind stripe artifact removal algorithm in LSFM, called DeStripe, which combines a self-supervised spatio-spectral graph neural network with unfolded Hessian prior. Specifically, inspired by the desirable properties of Fourier transform in condensing striping information into isolated values in the frequency domain, DeStripe firstly localizes the potentially corrupted Fourier coefficients by exploiting the structural difference between unidirectional stripe artifacts and more isotropic foreground images. Affected Fourier coefficients can then be fed into a graph neural network for recovery, with a Hessian regularization unrolled to further ensure structures in the standard image space are well preserved. Since in realistic, stripe-free LSFM barely exists with a standard image acquisition protocol, DeStripe is equipped with a Self2Self denoising loss term, enabling artifact elimination without access to stripe-free ground truth images. Competitive experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of DeStripe in recovering corrupted biomarkers in LSFM with both synthetic and real stripe artifacts.

preprint2022arXiv

Local Attention Graph-based Transformer for Multi-target Genetic Alteration Prediction

Classical multiple instance learning (MIL) methods are often based on the identical and independent distributed assumption between instances, hence neglecting the potentially rich contextual information beyond individual entities. On the other hand, Transformers with global self-attention modules have been proposed to model the interdependencies among all instances. However, in this paper we question: Is global relation modeling using self-attention necessary, or can we appropriately restrict self-attention calculations to local regimes in large-scale whole slide images (WSIs)? We propose a general-purpose local attention graph-based Transformer for MIL (LA-MIL), introducing an inductive bias by explicitly contextualizing instances in adaptive local regimes of arbitrary size. Additionally, an efficiently adapted loss function enables our approach to learn expressive WSI embeddings for the joint analysis of multiple biomarkers. We demonstrate that LA-MIL achieves state-of-the-art results in mutation prediction for gastrointestinal cancer, outperforming existing models on important biomarkers such as microsatellite instability for colorectal cancer. Our findings suggest that local self-attention sufficiently models dependencies on par with global modules. Our LA-MIL implementation is available at https://github.com/agentdr1/LA_MIL.

preprint2022arXiv

S5CL: Unifying Fully-Supervised, Self-Supervised, and Semi-Supervised Learning Through Hierarchical Contrastive Learning

In computational pathology, we often face a scarcity of annotations and a large amount of unlabeled data. One method for dealing with this is semi-supervised learning which is commonly split into a self-supervised pretext task and a subsequent model fine-tuning. Here, we compress this two-stage training into one by introducing S5CL, a unified framework for fully-supervised, self-supervised, and semi-supervised learning. With three contrastive losses defined for labeled, unlabeled, and pseudo-labeled images, S5CL can learn feature representations that reflect the hierarchy of distance relationships: similar images and augmentations are embedded the closest, followed by different looking images of the same class, while images from separate classes have the largest distance. Moreover, S5CL allows us to flexibly combine these losses to adapt to different scenarios. Evaluations of our framework on two public histopathological datasets show strong improvements in the case of sparse labels: for a H&E-stained colorectal cancer dataset, the accuracy increases by up to 9% compared to supervised cross-entropy loss; for a highly imbalanced dataset of single white blood cells from leukemia patient blood smears, the F1-score increases by up to 6%.

preprint2020arXiv

Attention based Multiple Instance Learning for Classification of Blood Cell Disorders

Red blood cells are highly deformable and present in various shapes. In blood cell disorders, only a subset of all cells is morphologically altered and relevant for the diagnosis. However, manually labeling of all cells is laborious, complicated and introduces inter-expert variability. We propose an attention based multiple instance learning method to classify blood samples of patients suffering from blood cell disorders. Cells are detected using an R-CNN architecture. With the features extracted for each cell, a multiple instance learning method classifies patient samples into one out of four blood cell disorders. The attention mechanism provides a measure of the contribution of each cell to the overall classification and significantly improves the network's classification accuracy as well as its interpretability for the medical expert.