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Med Image Anal2026;114104234.November 1, 2026Journal Article

KPIs 2024 challenge: Advancing glomerular segmentation from patch- to slide-level.

Ruining Deng1, Tianyuan Yao2, Yucheng Tang3, Junlin Guo2, Siqi Lu2, Juming Xiong2, Lining Yu2, Quan Huu Cap4, Pengzhou Cai5, Libin Lan6, Ze Zhao7, Adrian Galdran8, Amit Kumar9, Gunjan Deotale9, Dev Kumar Das9, Inyoung Paik10, Joonho Lee10, Geongyu Lee10, Yujia Chen11, Wangkai Li11, Zhaoyang Li11, Xuege Hou12, Zeyuan Wu12, Shengjin Wang12, Maximilian Fischer13, Lars Krämer13, Anghong Du14, Le Zhang14, Maria Sánchez Sánchez8, Helena Sánchez Ulloa8, David Ribalta Heredia8, Carlos Pérez de Arenaza García8, Shuoyu Xu15, Bingdou He15, Xinping Cheng16, Tao Wang16, Noémie Moreau17, Katarzyna Bozek17, Shubham Innani18, Ujjwal Baid18, Kaura Solomon Kefas19, Bennett A Landman2, Yu Wang20, Shilin Zhao20, Mengmeng Yin20, Haichun Yang20, Yuankai Huo21
1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37215, USA; Weill Cornell Medicine, NY 10021, USA.
2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37215, USA.
3NVIDIA Corporation, Redmond, WA 98052, USA.
4Aillis, Inc., Tokyo 1010042, Japan.
5Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China; Chongqing Zhijian Life Technology Co. LTD, Chongqing 400039, China; Jinfeng Laboratory, Chongqing 401329, China.
6Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China.
7Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
8Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona 08002, Spain.
9Aira Matrix Private Limited, Thane, Maharashtra 400604, India.
10Deep Bio Inc., Research Team, Seoul, KR 08380, Republic of Korea.
11University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China.
12Tsinghua University & Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Beijing, 100084, China.
13German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg 69120, Germany.
14University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
15Bio-totem Pte Ltd, Suzhou 215000, China.
16Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, China.
17University of Cologne, Cologne 50931, Germany.
18Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
19Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
20Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
21Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37215, USA. Electronic address: yuankai.huo@vanderbilt.edu.
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Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health issue, affecting over 10% of the population and causing significant mortality. While kidney biopsy remains the gold standard for CKD diagnosis and treatment, the lack of comprehensive benchmarks for kidney pathology segmentation hinders progress in the field. To address this, we organized the Kidney Pathology Image Segmentation (KPIs) Challenge…

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