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Whole slide image (WSI) classification is a critical task in computational pathology. However, the gigapixel-size of such images remains a major challenge for the current state of deep-learning. Current methods rely on multiple-instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Etienne Pochet , Rami Maroun , Roger Trullo

Histopathological images provide rich information for disease diagnosis. Large numbers of histopathological images have been digitized into high resolution whole slide images, opening opportunities in developing computational image analysis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Jiayun Li , Wenyuan Li , Anthony Sisk , Huihui Ye , W. Dean Wallace , William Speier , Corey W. Arnold

Multiple instance (MI) learning with a convolutional neural network enables end-to-end training in the presence of weak image-level labels. We propose a new method for aggregating predictions from smaller regions of the image into an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Heather D. Couture , J. S. Marron , Charles M. Perou , Melissa A. Troester , Marc Niethammer

We describe a novel weakly supervised deep learning framework that combines both the discriminative and generative models to learn meaningful representation in the multiple instance learning (MIL) setting. MIL is a weakly supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan

Supervised learning tasks such as cancer survival prediction from gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) are a critical challenge in computational pathology that requires modeling complex features of the tumor microenvironment. These learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Iain Carmichael , Andrew H. Song , Richard J. Chen , Drew F. K. Williamson , Tiffany Y. Chen , Faisal Mahmood

Multiple-instance learning (MIL) has served as an important tool for a wide range of vision applications, for instance, image classification, object detection, and visual tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel method to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Xinggang Wang , Zhuotun Zhu , Cong Yao , Xiang Bai

Mammogram classification is directly related to computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. Traditional methods rely on regions of interest (ROIs) which require great efforts to annotate. Inspired by the success of using deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Wentao Zhu , Qi Lou , Yeeleng Scott Vang , Xiaohui Xie

Multiple instance learning (MIL) aims to learn the mapping between a bag of instances and the bag-level label. In this paper, we propose a new end-to-end graph neural network (GNN) based algorithm for MIL: we treat each bag as a graph and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ming Tu , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Early detection of cancers has been much explored due to its paramount importance in biomedical fields. Among different types of data used to answer this biological question, studies based on T cell receptors (TCRs) are under recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Younghoon Kim , Tao Wang , Danyi Xiong , Xinlei Wang , Seongoh Park

Multiple instance learning is an ideal mode of analysis for histopathology data, where vast whole slide images are typically annotated with a single global label. In such cases, a whole slide image is modelled as a collection of tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Leo Fillioux , Joseph Boyd , Maria Vakalopoulou , Paul-Henry Cournède , Stergios Christodoulidis

In the last years, the weakly supervised paradigm of multiple instance learning (MIL) has become very popular in many different areas. A paradigmatic example is computational pathology, where the lack of patch-level labels for whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Arne Schmidt , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Rafael Molina

When applying multi-instance learning (MIL) to make predictions for bags of instances, the prediction accuracy of an instance often depends on not only the instance itself but also its context in the corresponding bag. From the viewpoint of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Tiancheng Lin , Hongteng Xu , Canqian Yang , Yi Xu

Computational pathology holds substantial promise for improving diagnosis and guiding treatment decisions. Recent pathology foundation models enable the extraction of rich patch-level representations from large-scale whole-slide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xiangde Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Yuanfeng Ji , Ruijiang Li

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a form of weakly supervised learning where training instances are arranged in sets, called bags, and a label is provided for the entire bag. This formulation is gaining interest because it naturally fits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Marc-André Carbonneau , Veronika Cheplygina , Eric Granger , Ghyslain Gagnon

The whole slide histopathology images (WSIs) play a critical role in gastric cancer diagnosis. However, due to the large scale of WSIs and various sizes of the abnormal area, how to select informative regions and analyze them are quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Shujun Wang , Yaxi Zhu , Lequan Yu , Hao Chen , Huangjing Lin , Xiangbo Wan , Xinjuan Fan , Pheng-Ann Hen

Malignant lymphoma subtype classification directly impacts treatment strategies and patient outcomes, necessitating classification models that achieve both high accuracy and sufficient explainability. This study proposes a novel explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Daiki Nishiyama , Hiroaki Miyoshi , Noriaki Hashimoto , Koichi Ohshima , Hidekata Hontani , Ichiro Takeuchi , Jun Sakuma

Transfer learning from large-scale pre-trained models has become essential for many computer vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that datasets like ImageNet are weakly labeled since images with multiple object classes present are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Sai Rajeswar , Pau Rodriguez , Soumye Singhal , David Vazquez , Aaron Courville

Images and structured tables are essential parts of real-world databases. Though tabular-image representation learning is promising to create new insights, it remains a challenging task, as tabular data is typically heterogeneous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Siyi Du , Shaoming Zheng , Yinsong Wang , Wenjia Bai , Declan P. O'Regan , Chen Qin

Mammograms are commonly employed in the large scale screening of breast cancer which is primarily characterized by the presence of malignant masses. However, automated image-level detection of malignancy is a challenging task given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Sarath Chandra K , Arunava Chakravarty , Nirmalya Ghosh , Tandra Sarkar , Ramanathan Sethuraman , Debdoot Sheet

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is an effective and widely used approach for weakly supervised machine learning. In histopathology, MIL models have achieved remarkable success in tasks like tumor detection, biomarker prediction, and…