arXiv:2609.24736v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Mitotic figure (MF) analysis supports tumor grading and prognostic assessment, but automated models remain sensitive to differences in tissue type an...
By Trinh T. L. Vuong, Simon Graham, Quoc Dang Vu, Phat T. H. Ho, Jeewoo Lim, Mostafa Jahanifar, Nasir Rajpoot, Jin T. Kwak
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
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: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: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
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
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. 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
arXiv:2607. 03253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) staining constitutes the primary entry point in routine diagnostic workflows, computer-aided diagnosis from whole-slide H&E images is of particular clinical relevance.
By Ivica Kopriva, Dario Sitnik, Arijana Pacic, Karolina Krstanac, Irena Veliki Dalic, Marijana Popovic Hadzija