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Automation Bias in AI-assisted Medical Decision-making under Time Pressure in Computational Pathology

Rosbach, E. ., Ganz, J. ., Ammeling, J. ., Riener, A. ., & Aubreville, M. . (2025). Automation Bias in AI-assisted Medical Decision-making under Time Pressure in Computational Pathology. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. (Original work published 2025)

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Artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS) promise to enhance diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in computational pathology. However, human-AI collaboration might introduce automation bias, where users uncritically follow automated cues. This bias may worsen when time pressure strains practitioners’ cognitive resources. We quantified automation bias by measuring the adoption of negative system consultations and examined the role of time pressure in a web-based experiment, where trained pathology experts (n=28) estimated tumor cell percentages. Our results indicate that while AI integration led to a statistically significant increase in overall performance, it also resulted in a 7% automation bias rate, where initially correct evaluations were overturned by erroneous AI advice. Conversely, time pressure did not exacerbate automation bias occurrence, but appeared to increase its severity, evidenced by heightened reliance on the system’s negative consultations and subsequent performance decline. These findings highlight potential risks of AI use in healthcare. The final dataset (including a table with image patch details), participant demographics, and source code are available at: https://github.com/emelyrosbach/AB-TP.git
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FLAIR - Flensburg Artificial Intelligence Research

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Emely Rosbach

Jonathan Ganz

Jonas Ammeling

Andreas Riener

Marc Aubreville
Histologic Dataset of Normal and Atypical Mitotic Figures on Human Breast Cancer (AMi-Br)

Bertram, C. A. ", Weiss, V. ., Donovan, T. A., Banerjee, S. ., Conrad, T. ., Ammeling, J. ., … Aubreville, M. . (2025). Histologic Dataset of Normal and Atypical Mitotic Figures on Human Breast Cancer (AMi-Br). In "Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025" (S. 113–118). "Wiesbaden": "Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden".

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"Assessment of the density of mitotic figures (MFs) in histologic tumor sections is an important prognostic marker for many tumor types, including breast cancer. Recently, it has been reported in multiple works that the quantity of MFs with an atypical morphology (atypical MFs, AMFs) might be an independent prognostic criterion for breast cancer. AMFs are an indicator of mutations in the genes regulating the cell cycle and can lead to aberrant chromosome constitution (aneuploidy) of the tumor cells. To facilitate further research on this topic using pattern recognition, we present the first ever publicly available dataset of atypical and normal MFs (AMi-Br). For this, we utilized two of the most popular MF datasets (MIDOG 2021 and TUPAC) and subclassified all MFs using a three expert majority vote. Our final dataset consists of 3,720 MFs, split into 832 AMFs (22.4\%) and 2,888 normal MFs (77.6\%) across all 223 tumor cases in the combined set. We provide baseline classification experiments to investigate the consistency of the dataset, using a Monte Carlo cross-validation and different strategies to combat class imbalance.We found an averaged balanced accuracy of up to 0.806 when using a patch-level data set split, and up to 0.713 when using a patient-level split."
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Robust and Accurate Multi-Tumor, Multi-Species, Multi-Laboratory and Multi-Scanner Mitosis Detection with Large-Scale Datasets and Artificial Intelligence

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FLAIR - Flensburg Artificial Intelligence Research

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Digitale Transformation

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Christof Bertram

Viktoria Weiss

Taryn Donovan

Sweta Banerjee

Thomas Conrad

Jonas Ammeling

Robert Klopfleisch

Christopher Kaltenecker

Marc Aubreville
Is Self-supervision Enough?

Ganz, J. ", Ammeling, J. ., Rosbach, E. ., Lausser, L. ., Bertram, C. A., Breininger, K. ., & Aubreville, M. . (2025). Is Self-supervision Enough?. In "Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025" (S. 63–68). "Wiesbaden": "Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden".

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"Foundation models (FMs), i.e., models trained on a vast amount of typically unlabeled data, have become popular and available recently for the domain of histopathology. The key idea is to extract semantically rich vectors from any input patch, allowing for the use of simple subsequent classification networks potentially reducing the required amounts of labeled data, and increasing domain robustness. In this work, we investigate to which degree this also holds for mitotic figure classification. Utilizing two popular public mitotic figure datasets, we compared linear probing of five publicly available FMs against models trained on ImageNet and a simple ResNet50 end-to-end-trained baseline. We found that the end-to-end-trained baseline outperformed all FM-based classifiers, regardless of the amount of data provided. Additionally, we did not observe the FM-based classifiers to be more robust against domain shifts, rendering both of the above assumptions incorrect."
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Jonathan Ganz

Jonas Ammeling

Emely Rosbach

Ludwig Lausser

Christof Bertram

Katharina Breininger

Marc Aubreville
Comprehensive Dataset of Coarse Tumor Annotations for The Cancer Genome Atlas Breast Invasive Carcinoma

Banerjee, S. ", Bertram, C. A., Ammeling, J. ., Weiss, V. ., Conrad, T. ., Klopfleisch, R. ., … Aubreville, M. . (2025). Comprehensive Dataset of Coarse Tumor Annotations for The Cancer Genome Atlas Breast Invasive Carcinoma. In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2025 (S. 260–265). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47422-5_56

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Automated tumor segmentation of histologic images is crucial for the development of computer-assisted diagnostic workflows aiming at accurate prognostication. We present a dataset of coarse annotations of over 1,000 highresolution breast tumor images from The cancer genome atlas breast invasive carcinoma (TCGA-BRCA) repository, each annotated with binary segmentation masks that delineate coarse tumor areas. Additionally, a subset of 20 images includes fine-grained annotations, providing precise delineation of tumor boundaries beyond the broader outlines used in coarse annotations. Initial evaluations using U-Net and DeepLabv3 models show promising segmentation performance. On a held-out, coarsely annotated test set, U-Net achieved an average intersection over union (IoU) score of 0.795, while DeepLabv3 scored 0.783. On the finely annotated subset of this test set, U-Net reached an average IoU of 0.746, with DeepLabv3 slightly outperforming at 0.765. The public availability of this dataset aims to support research in automated tumor analysis, advancing diagnostic workflows and thereby ultimately improving breast cancer management.
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Sweta Banerjee

Christof Bertram

Jonas Ammeling

Viktoria Weiss

Thomas Conrad

Robert Klopfleisch

Christopher Kaltenecker

Katharina Breininger

Marc Aubreville

2024

Prediction of tumor board procedural recommendations using large language models

Aubreville, M. ., Ganz, J. ., Ammeling, J. ., Rosbach, E. ., Gehrke, T. ., Scherzad, A. ., … Goncalves, M. . (2024). Prediction of tumor board procedural recommendations using large language models. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-024-08947-9 (Original work published 2025)

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Multidisciplinary tumor boards are meetings where a team of medical specialists, including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, surgeons, and pathologists, collaborate to determine the best treatment plan for cancer patients. While decision-making in this context is logistically and cost-intensive, it has a significant positive effect on overall cancer survival.
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Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen

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Marc Aubreville

Jonathan Ganz

Jonas Ammeling

Emely Rosbach

Thomas Gehrke

Agmal Scherzad

Stephan Hackenberg

Miguel Goncalves
Re-identification from histopathology images

Ganz, J. ., Ammeling, J. ., Jabari, S. ., Breininger, K. ., & Aubreville, M. . (2024). Re-identification from histopathology images. Medical Image Analysis, 103335. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2024.103335 (Original work published 2025)
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Jonathan Ganz

Jonas Ammeling

Samir Jabari

Katharina Breininger

Marc Aubreville
Breast cancer survival prediction using an automated mitosis detection pipeline

Stathonikos, N. ., Aubreville, M. ., de Vries, S. ., Wilm, F. ., Bertram, C. A., Veta, M. ., & van Diest, P. J. (2024). Breast cancer survival prediction using an automated mitosis detection pipeline. The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, 10, e70008. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/2056-4538.70008

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Abstract Mitotic count (MC) is the most common measure to assess tumor proliferation in breast cancer patients and is highly predictive of patient outcomes. It is, however, subject to inter- and intraobserver variation and reproducibility challenges that may hamper its clinical utility. In past studies, artificial intelligence (AI)-supported MC has been shown to correlate well with traditional MC on glass slides. Considering the potential of AI to improve reproducibility of MC between pathologists, we undertook the next validation step by evaluating the prognostic value of a fully automatic method to detect and count mitoses on whole slide images using a deep learning model. The model was developed in the context of the Mitosis Domain Generalization Challenge 2021 (MIDOG21) grand challenge and was expanded by a novel automatic area selector method to find the optimal mitotic hotspot and calculate the MC per 2 mm2. We employed this method on a breast cancer cohort with long-term follow-up from the University Medical Centre Utrecht (N = 912) and compared predictive values for overall survival of AI-based MC and light-microscopic MC, previously assessed during routine diagnostics. The MIDOG21 model was prognostically comparable to the original MC from the pathology report in uni- and multivariate survival analysis. In conclusion, a fully automated MC AI algorithm was validated in a large cohort of breast cancer with regard to retained prognostic value compared with traditional light-microscopic MC.
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Nikolas Stathonikos

Marc Aubreville

Sjoerd de Vries

Frauke Wilm

Christof Bertram

Mitko Veta

Paul van Diest

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machine learning

histopathology

prognosis

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Information mismatch in PHH3-assisted mitosis annotation leads to interpretation shifts in H&E slide analysis

Ganz, J. ., Marzahl, C. ., Ammeling, J. ., Rosbach, E. ., Richter, B. ., Puget, C. ., … Aubreville, M. . (2024). Information mismatch in PHH3-assisted mitosis annotation leads to interpretation shifts in H&E slide analysis. Scientific Reports, 14, 26273. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77244-6

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Abstract The count of mitotic figures (MFs) observed in hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained slides is an important prognostic marker, as it is a measure for tumor cell proliferation. However, the identification of MFs has a known low inter-rater agreement. In a computer-aided setting, deep learning algorithms can help to mitigate this, but they require large amounts of annotated data for training and validation. Furthermore, label noise introduced during the annotation process may impede the algorithms’ performance. Unlike H&E, where identification of MFs is based mainly on morphological features, the mitosis-specific antibody phospho-histone H3 (PHH3) specifically highlights MFs. Counting MFs on slides stained against PHH3 leads to higher agreement among raters and has therefore recently been used as a ground truth for the annotation of MFs in H&E. However, as PHH3 facilitates the recognition of cells indistinguishable from H&E staining alone, the use of this ground truth could potentially introduce an interpretation shift and even label noise into the H&E-related dataset, impacting model performance. This study analyzes the impact of PHH3-assisted MF annotation on inter-rater reliability and object level agreement through an extensive multi-rater experiment. Subsequently, MF detectors, including a novel dual-stain detector, were evaluated on the resulting datasets to investigate the influence of PHH3-assisted labeling on the models’ performance. We found that the annotators’ object-level agreement significantly increased when using PHH3-assisted labeling (F1: 0.53 to 0.74). However, this enhancement in label consistency did not translate to improved performance for H&E-based detectors, neither during the training phase nor the evaluation phase. Conversely, the dual-stain detector was able to benefit from the higher consistency. This reveals an information mismatch between the H&E and PHH3-stained images as the cause of this effect, which renders PHH3-assisted annotations not well-aligned for use with H&E-based detectors. Based on our findings, we propose an improved PHH3-assisted labeling procedure.
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Robust and Accurate Multi-Tumor, Multi-Species, Multi-Laboratory and Multi-Scanner Mitosis Detection with Large-Scale Datasets and Artificial Intelligence

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Jonathan Ganz

Christian Marzahl

Jonas Ammeling

Emely Rosbach

Barbara Richter

Chloé Puget

Daniela Denk

Elena Demeter

Flaviu Tăbăran

Gabriel Wasinger

Karoline Lipnik

Marco Tecilla

Matthew Valentine

Michael Dark

Niklas Abele

Pompei Bolfa

Ramona Erber

Robert Klopfleisch

Sophie Merz

Taryn Donovan

Samir Jabari

Christof Bertram

Katharina Breininger

Marc Aubreville
Nuclear pleomorphism in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors: Comparison of reproducibility and prognostic relevance between estimates, manual morphometry, and algorithmic morphometry

Haghofer, A. ., Parlak, E. ., Bartel, A. ., Donovan, T. ., Assenmacher, C.-A. ., Bolfa, P. ., … Bertram, C. . (2024). Nuclear pleomorphism in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors: Comparison of reproducibility and prognostic relevance between estimates, manual morphometry, and algorithmic morphometry. Veterinary Pathology, 03009858241295399. http://doi.org/10.1177/03009858241295399

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Variation in nuclear size and shape is an important criterion of malignancy for many tumor types; however, categorical estimates by pathologists have poor reproducibility. Measurements of nuclear characteristics can improve reproducibility, but current manual methods are time-consuming. The aim of this study was to explore the limitations of estimates and develop alternative morphometric solutions for canine cutaneous mast cell tumors (ccMCTs). We assessed the following nuclear evaluation methods for accuracy, reproducibility, and prognostic utility: (1) anisokaryosis estimates by 11 pathologists; (2) gold standard manual morphometry of at least 100 nuclei; (3) practicable manual morphometry with stratified sampling of 12 nuclei by 9 pathologists; and (4) automated morphometry using deep learning–based segmentation. The study included 96 ccMCTs with available outcome information. Inter-rater reproducibility of anisokaryosis estimates was low (k = 0.226), whereas it was good (intraclass correlation = 0.654) for practicable morphometry of the standard deviation (SD) of nuclear size. As compared with gold standard manual morphometry (area under the ROC curve [AUC] = 0.839, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.701–0.977), the prognostic value (tumor-specific survival) of SDs of nuclear area for practicable manual morphometry and automated morphometry were high with an AUC of 0.868 (95% CI = 0.737–0.991) and 0.943 (95% CI = 0.889–0.996), respectively. This study supports the use of manual morphometry with stratified sampling of 12 nuclei and algorithmic morphometry to overcome the poor reproducibility of estimates. Further studies are needed to validate our findings, determine inter-algorithmic reproducibility and algorithmic robustness, and explore tumor heterogeneity of nuclear features in entire tumor sections.
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Andreas Haghofer

Eda Parlak

Alexander Bartel

Taryn Donovan

Charles-Antoine Assenmacher

Pompei Bolfa

Michael Dark

Andrea Fuchs-Baumgartinger

Andrea Klang

Kathrin Jäger

Robert Klopfleisch

Sophie Merz

Barbara Richter

Yvonne Schulman

Hannah Janout

Jonathan Ganz

Josef Scharinger

Marc Aubreville

Stephan Winkler

Matti Kiupel

Christof Bertram
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI-Supported Decision Making in Medicine

Ammeling, J. ., Aubreville, M. ., Fritz, A. ., Kießig, A. ., Krügel, S. ., & Uhl, M. . (2024). An Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI-Supported Decision Making in Medicine. Technology in Society, 102791.
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Robust and Accurate Multi-Tumor, Multi-Species, Multi-Laboratory and Multi-Scanner Mitosis Detection with Large-Scale Datasets and Artificial Intelligence

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Jonas Ammeling

Marc Aubreville

Alexis Fritz

Angelika Kießig

Sebastian Krügel

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