arXiv Computer Vision By Tiffanie Godelaine, Manon Dausort, Karim El Khoury, Beno\^it G\'erin, Beno\^it Macq, Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Exploiting Spatial Structure for Transductive Few-Shot Classification of Whole-Slide Images

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The paper introduces SlideTIM, a transductive few‑shot classification method tailored for whole‑slide images (WSIs). SlideTIM extends the LC‑TIM approach by adding a spatial‑latent regularizer and a class‑distribution prior, ensuring that spatially and semantically similar patches receive consistent predictions and that predicted class proportions are calibrated. Experiments on four histology datasets show that SlideTIM outperforms existing TIM variants, boosting macro‑F1 scores by up to 8.1 percentage points over the best baseline and 19.4 percentage points over zero‑shot predictions at one shot.

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