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Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has enabled weakly supervised analysis of whole-slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology. However, traditional MIL approaches often lose crucial contextual information, while transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xitong Ling , Minxi Ouyang , Xiaoxiao Li , Jiawen Li , Ying Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Xinrui Chen , Tian Guan , Xiaoping Liu , Yonghong He

The integration of medical imaging and clinical text has enabled the emergence of generalist artificial intelligence (AI) systems for healthcare. However, pervasive biases, such as imbalanced disease prevalence, skewed anatomical region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Jiarun Liu , Hao Yang , Qi Yang , Song Wu , Ye Li , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Convolutional neural networks can be trained to perform histology slide classification using weak annotations with multiple instance learning (MIL). However, given the paucity of labeled histology data, direct application of MIL can easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Ming Y. Lu , Richard J. Chen , Jingwen Wang , Debora Dillon , Faisal Mahmood

Although multi-instance learning (MIL) has succeeded in pathological image classification, it faces the challenge of high inference costs due to the need to process thousands of patches from each gigapixel whole slide image (WSI). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jiuyang Dong , Jiahan Li , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Yongbing Zhang

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

Several deep learning algorithms have been developed to predict survival of cancer patients using whole slide images (WSIs).However, identification of image phenotypes within the WSIs that are relevant to patient survival and disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Xingyu Li , Jitendra Jonnagaddala , Min Cen , Hong Zhang , Xu Steven Xu

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

Accurate tumor detection in digital pathology whole-slide images (WSIs) is crucial for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has emerged as a widely used approach for weakly-supervised tumor detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Marina D'Amato , Jeroen van der Laak , Francesco Ciompi

Foundation models (FMs) have transformed computational pathology by providing powerful, general-purpose feature extractors. However, adapting and benchmarking individual FMs for specific diagnostic tasks is often time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Peiran Quan , Zifan Gu , Zhuo Zhao , Qin Zhou , Donghan M. Yang , Ruichen Rong , Yang Xie , Guanghua Xiao

Multi-view evidential learning aims to integrate information from multiple views to improve prediction performance and provide trustworthy uncertainty esitimation. Most previous methods assume that view-specific evidence learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haishun Chen , Cai Xu , Jinlong Yu , Yilin Zhang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Fangyuan Zhao , Xin Yang

Advances in optical microscopy scanning have significantly contributed to computational pathology (CPath) by converting traditional histopathological slides into whole slide images (WSIs). This development enables comprehensive digital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Xitong Ling , Yuanyuan Lei , Jiawen Li , Junru Cheng , Wenting Huang , Tian Guan , Jian Guan , Yonghong He

Histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) play a very important role in clinical studies and serve as the gold standard for many cancer diagnoses. However, generating automatic tools for processing WSIs is challenging due to their enormous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jingwei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Ke Ma , Rajarsi Gupta , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Dimitris Samaras

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for Whole Slide Image (WSI) diagnosis, offering effective learning with limited annotations. However, existing MIL frameworks overlook diagnostic priorities and fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sungrae Hong , Jiwon Jeong , Jisu Shin , Donghee Han , Sol Lee , Kyungeun Kim , Mun Yong Yi

The histopathological analysis of whole-slide images (WSIs) is fundamental to cancer diagnosis but is a time-consuming and expert-driven process. While deep learning methods show promising results, dominant patch-based methods artificially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Alexander Weers , Alexander H. Berger , Laurin Lux , Peter Schüffler , Daniel Rueckert , Johannes C. Paetzold

Whole slide image (WSI) classification often relies on deep weakly supervised multiple instance learning (MIL) methods to handle gigapixel resolution images and slide-level labels. Yet the decent performance of deep learning comes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Yu Zhao , Fan Yang , Yao Zhang , Lei He , Jianhua Yao

We present a fairness-aware framework for multi-class lung disease diagnosis from chest CT volumes, developed for the Fair Disease Diagnosis Challenge at the PHAROS-AIF-MIH Workshop (CVPR 2026). The challenge requires classifying CT scans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Aditya Parikh , Aasa Feragen

We consider machine-learning-based thyroid-malignancy prediction from cytopathology whole-slide images (WSI). Multiple instance learning (MIL) approaches, typically used for the analysis of WSIs, divide the image (bag) into patches…

In medical image analysis, model predictions can be affected by sensitive attributes, such as race and gender, leading to fairness concerns and potential biases in diagnostic outcomes. To mitigate this, we present a causal modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Bowei Tian , Yexiao He , Meng Liu , Yucong Dai , Ziyao Wang , Shwai He , Guoheng Sun , Zheyu Shen , Wanghao Ye , Yongkai Wu , Ang Li

Interpretability is essential in Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis for computational pathology, where understanding model predictions helps build trust in AI-assisted diagnostics. While Integrated Gradients (IG) and related attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Anh Mai Vu , Tuan L. Vo , Ngoc Lam Quang Bui , Nam Nguyen Le Binh , Akash Awasthi , Huy Quoc Vo , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Zhu Han , Chandra Mohan , Hien Van Nguyen

Traditional whole slide image (WSI) analysis methods typically rely on the multiple instance learning (MIL) paradigm, which extracts patch-level features at high magnification and aggregates them for slide-level prediction. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiusong Ge , Yingkang Zhan , Wenjie Zhao , Di Zhang , Ke Wang , Jiashuai Liu , Chunze Yang , Chengzu Li , Jian Zhang , Yuxin Dong , Ni Zhang , Qidong Liu , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar , Huazhu Fu , Chen Li , Zeyu Gao