Revisiting the Role of Foundation Models in Cell-Level Histopathological Image Analysis under Small-Patch Constraints -- Effects of Training Data Scale and Blur Perturbations on CNNs and Vision Transformers
This study demonstrates that for cell-level histopathological image analysis under extreme spatial constraints, task-specific architectures trained on sufficient data outperform foundation models in both accuracy and efficiency, while offering comparable robustness to blur perturbations.