Project Publications:
Schuiveling, Mark, ..., Torbati N, Meshcheryakova A, Mechtcheriakova D, Mahbod A, ..., Associations between spatial distribution of immune cell subsets and clinical outcomes in patients with advanced melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: results from the PUMA challenge, medRxiv, 2026, (Link)
Torbati N*, Meshcheryakova A*, Mechtcheriakova D**, Mahbod A**, NucFuseRank: Dataset Fusion and Performance Ranking for Nuclei Instance Segmentation, arXiv, 2026, (Link)
(*Equal contributions, **Equal contributions)
Torbati N*, Meshcheryakova A*, Mechtcheriakova D**, Mahbod A**, ACS-SegNet: An Attention-Based CNN-SegFormer Segmentation Network for Tissue Segmentation in Histopathology, arXiv, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2026 (Link)
(*Equal contributions, **Equal contributions)
Torbati N*, Meshcheryakova A*, Mechtcheriakova D**, Mahbod A**, A Multi-Stage Auto-Context Deep Learning Framework for Tissue and Nuclei Segmentation and Classification in H&E-Stained Histological Images of Advanced Melanoma, arXiv, 2025 (Link)
(*Equal contributions, **Equal contributions)
Related Publications (from team members):
Mahbod A, Polak C, Feldmann K, Khan R, Gelles K, Dorffner G, Woitek R, Hatamikia S, Ellinger I, NuInsSeg: A fully annotated dataset for nuclei instance segmentation in H&E-stained histological images, Nature Scientific Data, 2024 (Link)
Mahbod A, Dorffner G, Ellinger I, Woitek R, Hatamikia S, Improving generalization capability of deep learning-based nuclei instance segmentation by non-deterministic train time and deterministic test time stain normalization, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2024 (Link)
Mahbod A, Schaefer G, Dorffner G, Hatamikia S, Ecker R, Ellinger I, A dual decoder U-Net-based model for nuclei instance segmentation in hematoxylin and eosin-stained histological images, Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 (Link)
Meshcheryakova A, Mungenast F, Ecker R, Mechtcheriakova D, Tissue image cytometry. Imaging Modalities for Biological and Preclinical Research: A Compendium, Volume 1, 2021 (Link) (Full text is available upon request to DM)
Mungenast F, Meshcheryakova A, Beer A., Salzmann M, Tamandl D, Gruenberger T, Pietschmann P, Koperek O, Birner P, Kirsch I, Robins H, Mittlboeck M, Jaritz M, Bergmann M, Zimmermann P, Mechtcheriakova D, The Immune Phenotype of Isolated Lymphoid Structures in Non-Tumorous Colon Mucosa Encrypts the Information on Pathobiology of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, Cancers, 2020 (Link)
Meshcheryakova A, Tamandl D, Bajna E, Stift J, Mittlboeck M, Svoboda M, Heiden D, Stremitzer S, Erika Jensen-Jarolim E, Grünberger T, Bergmann M, Mechtcheriakova D, B cells and ectopic follicular structures: novel players in anti-tumor programming with prognostic power for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. PLoS One, 2014 (Link)