Teacher-Student Model for Detecting and Classifying Mitosis in the MIDOG 2025 Challenge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03614v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:08:11 GMT
• Title: Teacher-Student Model for Detecting and Classifying Mitosis in the MIDOG 2025 Challenge
• Authors: Seungho Choe, Xiaoli Qin, Abubakr Shafique, Amanda Dy, Dimitri Androutsos, Susan Done, April Khademi,
• Abstract summary: Counting mitotic figures is time-intensive for pathologists and leads to inter-observer variability.<n>Artificial intelligence (AI) promises a solution by automatically detecting mitotic figures while maintaining decision consistency.<n>We formulate mitosis detection as a pixel-level segmentation and propose a teacher-student model that simultaneously addresses mitosis detection and classification.
• Score: 0.5794811300616634
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Counting mitotic figures is time-intensive for pathologists and leads to inter-observer variability. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises a solution by automatically detecting mitotic figures while maintaining decision consistency. However, AI tools are susceptible to domain shift, where a significant drop in performance can occur due to differences in the training and testing sets, including morphological diversity between organs, species, and variations in staining protocols. Furthermore, the number of mitoses is much less than the count of normal nuclei, which introduces severely imbalanced data for the detection task. In this work, we formulate mitosis detection as a pixel-level segmentation and propose a teacher-student model that simultaneously addresses mitosis detection (Track 1) and atypical mitosis classification (Track 2). Our method is based on a UNet segmentation backbone that integrates domain generalization modules, namely contrastive representation learning and domain-adversarial training. A teacher-student strategy is employed to generate pixel-level pseudo-masks not only for annotated mitoses and hard negatives but also for normal nuclei, thereby enhancing feature discrimination and improving robustness against domain shift. For the classification task, we introduce a multi-scale CNN classifier that leverages feature maps from the segmentation model within a multi-task learning paradigm. On the preliminary test set, the algorithm achieved an F1 score of 0.7660 in Track 1 and balanced accuracy of 0.8414 in Track 2, demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating segmentation-based detection and classification into a unified framework for robust mitosis analysis.

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