arXiv Computer Vision By Yang Luo, Shiru Wang, Jun Liu, Jiaxuan Xiao, Rundong Xue, Zeyu Zhang, Hao Zhang, Yu Lu, Yang Zhao, Yutong Xie

PathoHR: Breast Cancer Survival Prediction on High-Resolution Pathological Images

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PathoHR is a new pipeline for predicting breast cancer survival from high‑resolution pathological images. It uses a plug‑and‑play Vision Transformer to enhance patch‑wise whole slide image representations, evaluates multiple similarity metrics to optimize feature learning, and shows that smaller, enhanced patches can match or surpass the accuracy of larger raw patches while cutting computational cost. The authors provide experimental evidence that this approach improves both accuracy and efficiency in computational pathology.

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