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@article{Yeung:2026,
author = {Yeung, M and Watts, T and Tan, SYW and Jing, P and Ferreira, PF and Scott, AD and Nielles-Vallespin, S and Yang, G},
journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology},
title = {Stain consistency learning: handling stain variation for automatic digital pathology segmentation},
year = {2026}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Abstract—Stain variation poses a major challenge for automated digital pathology. Numerous techniques address this issue, yet show limited success, especially outside H&E stains and classification tasks. We propose Stain Consistency Learning (SCL), combining stain-specific augmentation and a novel consistency loss to learn stain-invariant features. We conduct the first large scale evaluation of ten methods on Masson’s trichrome andH&E datasets for segmentation. Our results demonstrate that traditional stain normalization offers little benefit, while stain augmentation and adversarial learning significantly improve performance. SCL consistently outperforms all other methods.
AU - Yeung,M
AU - Watts,T
AU - Tan,SYW
AU - Jing,P
AU - Ferreira,PF
AU - Scott,AD
AU - Nielles-Vallespin,S
AU - Yang,G
PY - 2026///
SN - 2644-1276
TI - Stain consistency learning: handling stain variation for automatic digital pathology segmentation
T2 - IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
ER -
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