arXiv:2606. 28676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting the risk of distant metastasis from primary tumor tissue histology is a critical yet challenging task in computational pathology.
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arXiv:2606.28676v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting distant metastasis from the digital H & E slides of the primary tumor is a critical yet challenging task in computational patholog...
Recent advances in pathology foundation models have enabled accurate prediction of spatial transcriptomics (ST) from routine H&E images. However, existing explainability methods for vision transformer...
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.
The paper introduces Conserved Immune Topology (CIT), a lightweight spatial representation that enhances cross‑cancer MSI‑H prediction by augmenting pathology foundation‑model embeddings with immune‑related descriptors. CIT identifies immune‑associated tiles via unsupervised clustering and encodes features such as tertiary lymphoid structures, peritumoral immune reactions, tumor‑infiltrating lymphocyte density, and immune‑tumor mixing, all without requiring annotations or target‑domain data. In cross‑site and cross‑cancer experiments on CPTAC‑COAD and TCGA‑STAD cohorts, CIT improved zero‑shot TransMIL AUC from 0.6627 to 0.7161, demonstrating that spatial immune topology can provide an organ‑invariant representation for MSI‑H prediction.
SpaFactor is a lightweight framework that predicts spatial gene expression from hematoxylin and eosin images by fusing central spot visuals with multiscale neighborhood context. It uses a residual MLP to map tissue microenvironment to low‑dimensional latent gene programs, which are decoded into coordinated multi‑gene predictions. Across five public cohorts, SpaFactor outperforms existing methods, especially for spatially variable genes, and better recovers biologically organized spatial patterns.
arXiv:2510.06113v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Survival analysis plays a vital role in making clinical decisions. However, the models currently in use are often difficult to interpret, which red...