A Subphase-Labeled Mitotic Dataset for AI-powered Cell Division Analysis

Iván, Zsanett Zsófia and Hirling, Dominik and Grexa, István and Ammeling, Jonas and Molnár, Csaba and Micsik, Tamas and Dobra, Katalin and Kuthi, Levente and Sukosd, Farkas and Fillinger, János and Moldvay, Judit and Tóth, Erika and Aubreville, Marc and Csapóné Miczán, Vivien and Horváth, Péter (2026) A Subphase-Labeled Mitotic Dataset for AI-powered Cell Division Analysis. SCIENTIFIC DATA, 13 (1). No. 680. ISSN 2052-4463

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Abstract

Mitosis detection represents a critical task in digital pathology, as it plays an important role in the tumor grading and prognosis of patients. Manual determination is a labor-intensive task for practitioners with high interobserver variability, thus, automation is a priority. There has been substantial progress towards creating robust mitosis detection algorithms, primarily driven by the Mitosis Domain Generalization (MIDOG) challenges. Also, there has been growing interest in the molecular characterization of mitosis to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of its underlying mechanisms in a subphase-specific manner. We introduce a new mitotic figure dataset annotated with subphase information based on the MIDOG++ dataset as well as a previously unrepresented tumor domain to enhance the diversity and applicability. We envision a new perspective for domain generalization by improving model performance with subtyping mitosis, complemented with an atypical mitotic class. Our work has implications in two main areas: subtyping information can provide helpful information in mitosis detection, while also providing promising new directions in answering biological questions, such as molecular analysis of subphases.

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