arXiv:2606.28676v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Predicting distant metastasis from the digital H & E slides of the primary tumor is a critical yet challenging task in computational patholog...
By Sandesh Pokhrel, Hamid Manoochehri, Beatrice S Knudsen, Tolga Tasdizen
Recent advances in pathology foundation models have enabled accurate prediction of spatial transcriptomics (ST) from routine H&E images. However, existing explainability methods for vision transformer...
RACR-MIL is a weakly‑supervised method for grading squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) from whole‑slide images, using an attention‑based multiple‑instance learning framework. It introduces a hybrid WSI graph to capture local tissue context and non‑local phenotypic dependencies, and applies rank‑ordering constraints on attention to prioritize higher‑grade tumor regions, mirroring pathologists’ diagnostic reasoning. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance, improving SCC grading accuracy by 3–9% over existing methods and up to 10% in tumor localization, and a pilot study showed pathologists reported increased grading efficiency in 60% of cases.
By Anirudh Choudhary, Mosbah Aouad, Krishnakant Saboo, Angelina Hwang, Jacob Kechter, Blake Bordeaux, Puneet Bhullar, David DiCaudo, Steven Nelson, Nneka Comfere, Emma Johnson, Olayemi Sokumbi, Jason Sluzevich, Leah Swanson, Dennis Murphree, Aaron Mangold, Ravishankar Iyer
The paper introduces Conserved Immune Topology (CIT), a lightweight spatial representation that enhances cross‑cancer MSI‑H prediction by augmenting pathology foundation‑model embeddings with immune‑related descriptors. CIT identifies immune‑associated tiles via unsupervised clustering and encodes features such as tertiary lymphoid structures, peritumoral immune reactions, tumor‑infiltrating lymphocyte density, and immune‑tumor mixing, all without requiring annotations or target‑domain data. In cross‑site and cross‑cancer experiments on CPTAC‑COAD and TCGA‑STAD cohorts, CIT improved zero‑shot TransMIL AUC from 0.6627 to 0.7161, demonstrating that spatial immune topology can provide an organ‑invariant representation for MSI‑H prediction.
By Dasari Naga Raju
SpaFactor is a lightweight framework that predicts spatial gene expression from hematoxylin and eosin images by fusing central spot visuals with multiscale neighborhood context. It uses a residual MLP to map tissue microenvironment to low‑dimensional latent gene programs, which are decoded into coordinated multi‑gene predictions. Across five public cohorts, SpaFactor outperforms existing methods, especially for spatially variable genes, and better recovers biologically organized spatial patterns.
By Shiting Ruan, Xitong Ling, Qiming He, Ziyou Yan, Huaitian Yuan, Tian Guan, Ying Xiao, Xu Guan, Yonghong He
arXiv:2510.06113v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Survival analysis plays a vital role in making clinical decisions. However, the models currently in use are often difficult to interpret, which red...
By Shuo Jiang, Zhuwen Chen, Liaoman Xu, Yanming Zhu, Changmiao Wang, Jiong Zhang, Feiwei Qin, Yifei Chen, Zhu Zhu
arXiv:2606. 06224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explanations of multiple instance learning (MIL) models are widely used for validation and discovery in digital histopathology.
By Yanqing Luo (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Berlin, Germany, Machine Learning Group, Technische Universit\"at Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Julius Hense (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Berlin, Germany, Machine Learning Group, Technische Universit\"at Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Niklas Preni{\ss}l (Institute of Pathology, Charit\'e Universit\"atsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin Institute of Health at Charit\'e -- Universit\"atsmedizin Berlin, BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy, BIH Charit\'e Digital Clinician Scientist Program, Berlin, Germany), Andreas Mock (Institute of Pathology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Division of Translational Medical Oncology, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, NCT Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium), Klaus-Robert M\"uller (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Berlin, Germany, Machine Learning Group, Technische Universit\"at Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbr\"ucken, Germany), Thomas Schnake (Department of Chemistry, Chemical Physics Theory Group, University of Toronto, Canada, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Canada), Mina Jamshidi Idaji (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, Berlin, Germany, Machine Learning Group, Technische Universit\"at Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
arXiv:2608. 03145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models can predict cancer recurrence from H&E stained slides, but the localized molecular states underlying these predictions remain largely obscured.
By Yesung Cho, Ji Hwan Park, Chanil Kim, Hyewon Kim, Honglan Li, Yumin Lee, Geongyu Lee, Sujeong Hong, Seong Min Park, Yoonyoung Lee, Hee Sool Rho, Sumin Lee, Amos Chungwon Lee, Changhwan Lee, Hwanyoung Shim, Hyunwook Kim, Hyeji Shin, Sanha Park, Jihoon Yu, Yoon Hee Shin, Sooheon Kim, Hyunjin Park, Seung Min Park, Sangwan Kim, Yujung Kim, Sung-Im Do, Eun-Young Kim, Dongmyung Shin, Jongbae Park, In-Gu Do
The paper introduces Prototype Purification and Regulation (PPR), a multi‑label few‑shot learning framework for medical image classification that addresses two key limitations of existing metric‑based meta‑learning methods. PPR first purifies prototypes by using sample‑level comorbidity scores to highlight disease‑specific features, then regulates inter‑class prototype distances with disease‑level comorbidity statistics to create a comorbidity‑aware embedding space. Experiments on four chest X‑ray datasets, including cross‑domain tests, show that PPR outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, improving disease detection and demonstrating robust generalization and clinical applicability.
By Ying-Chih Lin, Po-Chih Kuo, Yong-Sheng Chen
arXiv:2608.24823v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spatially resolved biology requires representations that preserve biological neighborhood structure rather than only exact cross-modal correspondences....
By Seungik Cho, Betul Orcan-Ekmekci
Spatial multi-omics technologies jointly profile gene expression, surface proteins, and histology at each tissue spot, yet most spatial domain discovery methods provide only cluster assignments, witho...
arXiv:2606. 29949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: H&E-stained whole-slide images offer cohort-scale availability and rich spatial context but lack molecular specificity, whereas bulk RNA-seq provides transcriptome-wide resolution at high cost with limited archival availability.
By Dominik Winter, Dominik Vonficht, Lo\"ic Le Bescond, Christian Gebbe, Marco Rosati, Richard J. Chen, Markus Schick, Ross Stewart, Nicolas Brieu