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Predicting Metastatic Risk from Primary Cancer Tissue Architecture via Distance-Aware Spatial Modeling

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MIST: Multi-Scale Spatial Context for Gene Expression Prediction from Histology

MIST is a Multi‑context Spatial Transformer that predicts spatial gene expression from H&E images by adding two context pathways to a standard Transformer: a coordinate‑invariant local pathway that attends to spatial k‑nearest‑neighbor spots, and a slide pathway that broadcasts a whole‑slide summary to every spot. In intra‑cohort evaluation across six human organ cohorts, MIST improves mean Pearson correlation by 9.7%–11.6% over the strongest baseline for 10‑, 50‑, and 100‑gene panels, and achieves lower MSE and MAE. It also outperforms baselines in leave‑one‑organ‑out transfer, domain recovery, and reproduces spatial expression patterns of cancer‑marker genes.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

RACR-MIL: Rank-aware contextual reasoning for weakly supervised grading of squamous cell carcinoma using whole slide images

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 Computer Vision
Aug 31

Report Supervision

The paper introduces Report Supervision (R‑Super), a framework that uses radiology reports to supervise tumor segmentation models. By incorporating loss functions that align segmentation outputs with report‑derived tumor counts, sizes, and locations, R‑Super improves detection and segmentation performance. Experiments on kidney and pancreatic tumors show up to a 15% increase in F1‑Score and DSC compared to mask‑only training, outperforming methods like CLIP and multi‑task learning.

By Pedro R. A. S. Bassia, Wenxuan Li, Jakob Wasserthal, Jieneng Chen, Xinze Zhou, Zheren Zhu, Chuntung Zhuanga, Sergio Decherchi, Andrea Cavalli, Kang Wang, Yang Yang, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou
arXiv AI
Jul 21

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Efficient Pathology Foundation Models for Whole-Slide and Tumor Microenvironment Analysis

arXiv:2607. 18218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models have emerged as a driving force in computational pathology, with the potential to transform cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment selection by learning transferable representations from large-scale histopathology data.

By Naoto Usuyama, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Sicong Yao, Hanwen Xu, Jaspreet Bagga, Guanghui Qin, Robert E. Kramer, Cliff Wong, Soohee Lee, Hao Qiu, Theodore Zhengde Zhao, Racheli Ben Shimol, Angela Crabtree, Kevin Matlock, Eduardo Alejandro Lozano Garcia, Naiteek Sangani, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Jason Entenmann, Alexandra Q. Bartlett, Bill J. Wright, Bernard A. Fox, Brian Piening, Sheng Zhang, Sheng Wang, Tristan Naumann, Carlo Bifulco, Hoifung Poon