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Melanie Boxberg
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6ranked-venue papers
0as first author
5since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0001-5989-7922ORCID · corroborated
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Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 6 · 5 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 5 · 4 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Navigating Through Whole Slide Images With Hierarchy, Multi-Object, and Multi-Scale DataabstractBuilding deep learning models that can rapidly segment whole slide images (WSIs) using only a handful of training samples remains an open challenge in computational pathology. The difficulty lies in the histological images themselves: many morphological structures within a slide are closely related and very similar in appearance, making it difficult to distinguish between them. However, a skilled pathologist can quickly identify the relevant phenotypes. Through years of training, they have learned to organize visual features into a hierarchical taxonomy (e.g., identifying carcinoma versus healthy tissue, or distinguishing regions within a tumor as cancer cells, the microenvironment, …). Thus, each region is associated with multiple labels representing different tissue types. Pathologists typically deal with this by analyzing the specimen at multiple scales and comparing visual features between different magnifications. Inspired by this multi-scale diagnostic workflow, we introduce the Navigator, a vision model that navigates through WSIs like a domain expert: it searches for the region of interest at a low scale, zooms in gradually, and localizes ever finer microanatomical classes. As a result, the Navigator can detect coarse-grained patterns at lower resolution and fine-grained features at higher resolution. In addition, to deal with sparsely annotated samples, we train the Navigator with a novel semi-supervised framework called S5CL v2. The proposed model improves the F1 score by up to 8% on various datasets including our challenging new TCGA-COAD-30CLS and Erlangen cohorts. Manuel Tran, Sophia J. Wagner, Wilko Weichert, Christian Matek, Melanie Boxberg, Tingying Peng |
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging | 5 |
| 2023 | B-Cos Aligned Transformers Learn Human-Interpretable Features
Manuel Tran, Amal Lahiani, Yashin Dicente Cid, Melanie Boxberg, Peter Lienemann, Christian Matek, Sophia J. Wagner, Fabian J. Theis, Eldad Klaiman, Tingying Peng |
MICCAI (8) | 4 |
| 2022 | Local Attention Graph-Based Transformer for Multi-target Genetic Alteration Prediction
Daniel Reisenbüchler, Sophia J. Wagner, Melanie Boxberg, Tingying Peng |
MICCAI (2) | 3 |
| 2022 | S5CL: Unifying Fully-Supervised, Self-supervised, and Semi-supervised Learning Through Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
Manuel Tran, Sophia J. Wagner, Melanie Boxberg, Tingying Peng |
MICCAI (2) | 3 |
| 2021 | Structure-Preserving Multi-domain Stain Color Augmentation Using Style-Transfer with Disentangled Representations
Sophia J. Wagner, Nadieh Khalili, Raghav Sharma, Melanie Boxberg, Carsten Marr, Walter de Back, Tingying Peng |
MICCAI (8) | 4 |
| 2019 | Multi-task Learning of a Deep K-Nearest Neighbour Network for Histopathological Image Classification and Retrieval
Tingying Peng, Melanie Boxberg, Wilko Weichert, Nassir Navab, Carsten Marr |
MICCAI (1) | 2 |