arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

MiTHras: Task-specific Hierarchical Semi-supervised Contrastive Masked Autoencoder for Mitotic Figure Analysis

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
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

HERO: Histology Encoder for Robust Representation in Oncology

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 AI
Jun 8

Mitosis Detection in the Wild: Multi-Tumor and Context-Aware Generalization in the MIDOG 2025 Challenge

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 AI
Jun 8

DaX: Learning General Pathology Representations Across Scales

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 AI
Sep 1

Towards Accurate and Lightweight Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumor Diagnosis via Contrastive Multi-scale Pathological Image Analysis

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