Mitotic figure (MF) analysis supports tumor grading and prognostic assessment, but automated models remain sensitive to differences in tissue type and image acquisition. We present MiTHras, a task-spe...
HERO (Histology Encoder for Robust Representation in Oncology) is a ViT‑G/14 pathology foundation model trained with DINO and iBOT objectives and refined using high‑resolution Gram anchoring on a 500‑million‑tile corpus from about 575,000 clinical whole‑slide images. It demonstrates superior robustness to center, scanner, and stain variation compared to other state‑of‑the‑art foundation models, while maintaining competitive performance on tile‑level classification, segmentation, and gene‑expression prediction. Across 39 slide‑level clinical tasks, HERO ranks first on average and achieves the best average rank across six benchmark frameworks under an equal‑weighted analysis.
By Zhi Li (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Eghbal Amidi (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Yating Cheng (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Tyson Dawson (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Gorkem Can Ates (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Shuzhen Kuang (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Norsang Lama (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Md Ashequr Rahman (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Zhiying Lu (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Elisabeth K. Kong (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Milan Radovich (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), David Spetzler (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Matthew Oberley (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), George W. Sledge (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States), Ming Chen (Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, United States)
arXiv:2606. 07368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated mitosis detection is a well-established task in computational pathology.
By Marc Aubreville, Jonas Ammeling, Sweta Banerjee, Viktoria Weiss, Taryn A. Donovan, Robert Klopfleisch, Jiaqi Lv, Shan E Ahmed Raza, Rapha\"el Bourgade, Thomas Walter, Yasemin Topuz, Song\"ul Varl{\i}, Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete, Zhuoyan Shen, Navya Sri Kelam, Nitin Singhal, Christian Marzahl, Brian Napora, Tengyou Xu, Hongyan Gu, Mario Vento, Gennaro Percannella, Norbert Ropiak, Izabela Wasiak, Jie Xiao, Shaojun Liu, Seungho Choe, April Khademi, Vidushi Walia, Sujatha Kotte, Andrew Broad, Alex Wright, Guillaume Balezo, Esha Sadia Nasir, Mostafa Jahanifar, Yosuke Yamagishi, Shouhei Hanaoka, Mattia Sarno, Francesco Tortorella, Biwen Meng, Jingxin Liu, Sara Krauss, Daniel Hieber, Lavish Ramchandani, Dev Kumar Das, Mieko Ochi, Yuan Bae, Piotr Giedziun, Mateusz Maniewski, Vangala Govindakrishnan Saipradeep, Naveen Sivadasan, Leire Benito-Del-Valle, Adrian Galdran, Kaustubh Atey, Sameer Anand Jha, Adinath Dukre, Imran Razzak, Maxime W. Lafarge, Viktor H. Koelzer, Nils Porsche, Nikolas Stathonikos, Mitko Veta, Dominik Hirling, Zsanett Zs\'ofia Iv\'an, Peter Horvath, Katharina Breininger, Christof A. Bertram
arXiv:2606. 06983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational pathology requires visual representations that transfer across diverse clinical endpoints and remain robust to variation in magnification, staining, scanner type, slide preparation, and input resolution.
By Bokai Zhao, Yiyang Zhang, Long Bai, Tai Ma, Hanqing Chao, Minfeng Xu
arXiv:2601.17228v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Deep learning models in computational pathology often fail to generalize across cohorts and institutions due to domain shift. Existing approaches e...
By Tengyue Zhang, Ruiwen Ding, Luoting Zhuang, Yuxiao Wu, Erika F. Rodriguez, William Hsu
arXiv:2608. 10657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leukemia cell image classification is challenged by real-world domain shifts from acquisition, staining, illumination, and site protocols, causing single-dataset models to generalize poorly in real clinical scenarios.
By Carlos Zamora, Hiram Zuniga, Ulises Orozco-Rosas, Kenia Picos
arXiv:2608. 05960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Routine CT interpretation is inherently comprehensive, capturing incidental findings across the entire scan volume.
By Maulik Chevli, Johannes Brandt, Rickmer Braren, Daniel Rueckert, Philip M\"uller
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
The paper introduces CoPath, a lightweight framework for diagnosing peripheral neuroblastic tumors (pNTs) from whole-slide images. CoPath combines CoHisNet, a multi‑scale feature‑fusion network that replaces traditional MLPs with Kolmogorov‑Arnold Network layers for efficient nonlinear modeling, and PathVote, which aggregates patch‑level predictions using pathology‑informed priors. Experiments on a private pNT cohort and the public BreakHis dataset show that CoPath matches or surpasses existing classifiers while reducing computational complexity.
By Zhu Zhu, Shuo Jiang, Jingyuan Zheng, Yawen Li, Yifei Chen, Manli Zhao, Weizhong Gu, Feiwei Qin, Jinhu Wang, Gang Yu
arXiv:2609.36429v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Predicting gene expression from H&E-stained histology images offers a scalable alternative to costly spatial transcriptomics, yet most existing methods...
By Zijun Gao, Chunbin Gu, Jinxi Xiang, Xiangde Luo, Pheng-Ann Heng
arXiv:2607. 19137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inferring contrast enhancement from one pre-contrast breast MRI slice is underdetermined: post-contrast appearance contains physiological information that is not uniquely encoded in baseline anatomy.
By Andrea Borghesi, Xin Wang, Jonas Teuwen, George Yiasemis
arXiv:2606. 17115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as powerful representation extractors for medical data, yet their generalizability to datasets under distribution shift remains underexplored.
By Jingyu Hu, Giuseppe Tripodi, Reed Naidoo, Sarah F. McGough, Tapabrata Chakraborti