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Multiple instance learning (MIL) is often used in medical imaging to classify high-resolution 2D images by processing patches or classify 3D volumes by processing slices. However, conventional MIL approaches treat instances separately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ethan Harvey , Dennis Johan Loevlie , Michael C. Hughes

Though multiple instance learning (MIL) has been a foundational strategy in computational pathology for processing whole slide images (WSIs), current approaches are designed for traditional hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides rather than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Marc Harary , Eliezer M. Van Allen , William Lotter

To solve the problem of poor performance of deep neural network models due to insufficient data, a simple yet effective interpolation-based data augmentation method is proposed: MSMix (Manifold Swap Mixup). This method feeds two different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mao Ye , Haitao Wang , Zheqian Chen

The whole slide image (WSI) classification is often formulated as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem. Since the positive tissue is only a small fraction of the gigapixel WSI, existing MIL methods intuitively focus on identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wenhao Tang , Sheng Huang , Xiaoxian Zhang , Fengtao Zhou , Yi Zhang , Bo Liu

Whole-slide image analysis via the means of computational pathology often relies on processing tessellated gigapixel images with only slide-level labels available. Applying multiple instance learning-based methods or transformer models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Joshua Butke , Noriaki Hashimoto , Ichiro Takeuchi , Hiroaki Miyoshi , Koichi Ohshima , Jun Sakuma

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

Mixup and its variants form a popular class of data augmentation techniques.Using a random sample pair, it generates a new sample by linear interpolation of the inputs and labels. However, generating only one single interpolation may limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lifeng Shen , Jincheng Yu , Hansi Yang , James T. Kwok

Given the special situation of modeling gigapixel images, multiple instance learning (MIL) has become one of the most important frameworks for Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification. In current practice, most MIL networks often face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Pei Liu , Luping Ji , Xinyu Zhang , Feng Ye

We address the challenging problem of whole slide image (WSI) classification. WSIs have very high resolutions and usually lack localized annotations. WSI classification can be cast as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem when only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Bin Li , Yin Li , Kevin W. Eliceiri

Despite substantial progress in the field of deep learning, overfitting persists as a critical challenge, and data augmentation has emerged as a particularly promising approach due to its capacity to enhance model generalization in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Wen Liang , Youzhi Liang , Jianguo Jia

Advances in medical imaging and deep learning have propelled progress in whole slide image (WSI) analysis, with multiple instance learning (MIL) showing promise for efficient and accurate diagnostics. However, conventional MIL models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xianrui Li , Yufei Cui , Jun Li , Antoni B. Chan

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has garnered widespread attention in the field of Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification as it replaces pixel-level manual annotation with diagnostic reports as labels, significantly reducing labor costs.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Tianhang Nan , Hao Quan , Yong Ding , Xingyu Li , Kai Yang , Xiaoyu Cui

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

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is increasingly being used as a support tool within clinical settings for pathological diagnosis decisions, achieving high performance and removing the annotation burden. However, existing approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sungrae Hong , Kyungeun Kim , Juhyeon Kim , Sol Lee , Jisu Shin , Chanjae Song , Mun Yong Yi

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has enabled substantial progress in computational histopathology, where a large amount of patches from gigapixel whole slide images are aggregated into slide-level predictions. Heatmaps are widely used to…

Predicting the response of a patient to a cancer treatment is of high interest. Nonetheless, this task is still challenging from a medical point of view due to the complexity of the interaction between the patient organism and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Bilel Guetarni , Feryal Windal , Halim Benhabiles , Mahfoud Chaibi , Romain Dubois , Emmanuelle Leteurtre , Dominique Collard

In pathology image analysis, obtaining and maintaining high-quality annotated samples is an extremely labor-intensive task. To overcome this challenge, mixing-based methods have emerged as effective alternatives to traditional preprocessing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tianyi Zhang , Zhiling Yan , Chunhui Li , Nan Ying , Yanli Lei , Yunlu Feng , Yu Zhao , Guanglei Zhang

Data augmentation is essential in medical imaging for improving classification accuracy, lesion detection, and organ segmentation under limited data conditions. However, two significant challenges remain. First, a pronounced domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xuyin Qi , Zeyu Zhang , Canxuan Gang , Hao Zhang , Lei Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang , Yang Zhao

Breast cancer has the highest mortality among cancers in women. Computer-aided pathology to analyze microscopic histopathology images for diagnosis with an increasing number of breast cancer patients can bring the cost and delays of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Abhijeet Patil , Dipesh Tamboli , Swati Meena , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Whole-slide image classification represents a key challenge in computational pathology and medicine. Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as an effective approach for this problem. However, the effect of attention…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Rajiv Krishnakumar , Julien Baglio , Frederik F. Flöther , Christian Ruiz , Stefan Habringer , Nicole H. Romano