arXiv AI

Pretraining Multiple Instance Learning Networks with Multi-Teacher Distillation from Pathology Slide Foundation Models

arXiv:2607. 14703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multiple instance learning (MIL) has become the main paradigm for whole-slide image (WSI) analysis in computational pathology.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

LadderMIL: Multiple Instance Learning with Coarse-to-Fine Self-Distillation

arXiv:2502.02707v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) for whole slide image (WSI) analysis in computational pathology often neglects instance-level learning as supervis...

By Shuyang Wu, Yifu Qiu, Ines P. Nearchou, Sandrine Prost, Jonathan A. Fallowfield, Hideki Ueno, Hitoshi Tsuda, David J. Harrison, Hakan Bilen, Timothy J. Kendall
arXiv AI
Jul 13

ALICE: Learning a General-Purpose Pathology Foundation Model from Vision, Vision-Language, and Slide-Level Experts

arXiv:2607. 09526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are reshaping computational pathology, yet their capabilities remain shaped by pretraining objectives, data sources, and spatial scales, fragmenting complementary expertise across separate backbones.

By Jiawen Li, Tian Guan, Huijuan Shi, Xitong Ling, Mingxi Fu, Anjia Han, Chao He, Yonghong He
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

LanGuSTE: Language-Guided Coarse-to-Fine Patch Selection for Efficient Whole Slide Image Analysis

LanGuSTE is a patch‑selection framework for whole slide image analysis that uses vision‑language models and large language model knowledge. It introduces Cross‑Scale Visual Prompt Tuning to align low‑resolution and high‑resolution patches, and a coarse‑to‑fine selection module that encodes only informative high‑resolution patches. Experiments show LanGuSTE cuts overall processing time to about one‑third of the baseline while matching or surpassing diagnostic performance of exhaustive and state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Yonghan Shin, Gangsu Kim, Won-Ki Jeong
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Grid-Preserving Knowledge Distillation: Transferring Convolutional Inductive Bias to Vision Transformers under Data Scarcity

Vision Transformers underperform convolutional networks when training data is scarce, and distilling convolutional inductive biases from a CNN teacher is an effective remedy that leaves the deployed model unchanged. General-purpose feature distillation, however, transfers little in this setting.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

A Multimodal 3D Foundation Model for Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Enables Few-Shot Segmentation, Classification, and Deblurring

The paper presents a 3D foundation model for light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSM) that is pretrained on a large curated set of 3D images from various organisms, stains, and imaging protocols. By jointly optimizing for masked reconstruction and image‑text alignment, the model learns transferable volumetric representations that dramatically reduce the need for annotated data. The pretrained backbone enables efficient few‑shot adaptation to downstream tasks such as segmentation, classification, and deblurring, consistently outperforming baselines according to standard metrics and expert evaluation.

By Adina Scheinfeld, Haotan Zhang, Shang Mu, Rudolf L. M. van Herten, Lucas Stoffl, Ali Erturk, Zhuhao Wu, Johannes C. Paetzold