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Sebastian Foersch

University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University MainzORCID 0000-0002-4740-6900Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:diffusion model· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Counterfactual Diffusion Models for Interpretable Explanations of Artificial Intelligence Models in Pathology

Laura Žigutytė, Tim Lenz, Tianyu Han, Nic Gabriel Reitsam, Sebastian Foersch, Katherine Jane Hewitt, Moritz Jesinghaus, Zunamys Itzell Carrero, Michaela Unger, Asier Rabasco Meneghetti, Georg Lurje, Isabella Lurje, Sophia Herda, Justus Pein, Deniz Uluk, , Jakob Nikolas Kather

MoPaDi generates counterfactual explanations for histopathology images to reveal morphological features driving classifier predictions, improving interpretability in digital pathology.

Cancer Research · Jun 17, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Swarm learning for decentralized artificial intelligence in cancer histopathology

Oliver Lester Saldanha, Philip Quirke, Nicholas Paul West, Jacqueline A. James, Maurice Bernard Loughrey, Heike Irmgard Grabsch, Manuel Salto‐Tellez, Elizabeth Alwers, Didem Çifçi, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Tobias Seibel, Richard G. Gray, Gordon G. A. Hutchins, Hermann Brenner, Marko van Treeck, , Jakob Nikolas Kather

This paper demonstrates swarm learning for training AI models on decentralized histopathology data to predict molecular features in colorectal cancer.

Nature Medicine · Apr 25, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics