arXiv Machine Learning

Evaluation and Prognostic Validation of Deep Regression Models for WSI-Based Gene-Expression Prediction

arXiv:2410. 00945v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gene-expression profiling is widely used in research and central to many areas of precision oncology, but remains costly and not universally accessible.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Data-Efficient Multimodal Alignment for Histopathology-based Molecular Prediction

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

TRAPS: Treatment-Assignment Prediction via Pathway-informed Stratification

arXiv:2606. 09898v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cancer treatment involves decisions across multiple clinical outcomes, yet pathway-informed deep learning models are typically evaluated in isolation, making their relative benefits unclear.

By Sujoy Banik, Sayantan Chakraborty, Boishakhi Das Toma, Zainab Ghafoor, Ushashi Bhattacharjee, Koushik Howlader, Tirtho Roy
arXiv AI
Sep 21

MIST: Multimodal Survival Prediction with Genomic-Guided Histology Attention

MIST is a multimodal survival prediction framework that fuses whole-slide images and genomic profiles by representing genomic features as tokens that query histology context tokens derived from a foundation model. The architecture enriches molecular information with histology context before survival prediction, avoiding late-stage merging of separately encoded modalities. Training incorporates discrete-time survival prediction, genomic feature masking, WSI dropout, and contrastive alignment, and demonstrates improved external C-index across colon, renal, lung, and glioblastoma cohorts compared to standard fusion baselines.

By Muhammet Sami Yavuz, Sabri Mustafa Kahya, Richard R. Chen, Jana Lipkova, Benedikt Wiestler
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Spatial Transcriptomics-Guided Alignment Enhances Molecular Profiling in Pathology Foundation Model

arXiv:2606. 03644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive molecular profiling is essential for modern precision oncology but remains hindered by prohibitive costs, specimen exhaustion, and protracted turnaround times.

By Fengtao Zhou, Yingxue Xu, Zhengyu Zhang, Yihui Wang, Zhengrui Guo, Ling Liang, Jiabo Ma, Cheng Jin, Ziyi Liu, Huajun Zhou, Hongyi Wang, Du Cai, Chenglong Zhao, Xi Wang, Can Yang, Yu Wang, Wenbin Li, Feng Gao, Zhe Wang, Zhenhui Li, Xiuming Zhang, Li Liang, Hao Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 5

SAGE: Semantic Explainability of Attention-Based Survival Models in Computational Pathology

arXiv:2608. 02803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Attention-based multiple instance learning (ABMIL) is the predominant approach for slide-level prediction in computational pathology, yet its attention maps provide only local explanations: they indicate where a model focuses but not which histological features drive its predictions or how the model behaves across a patient cohort.

By Abdallah Lamane, Abdul Rahman Diab, Ren-Chin Wu, William Lotter