Cross-scale multi-instance learning for pathological image diagnosis

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Analyzing high resolution whole slide images (WSIs) with regard to information across multiple scales poses a significant challenge in digital pathology. Multi-instance learning (MIL) is a common solution for working with high resolution images by classifying bags of objects (i.e. sets of smaller image patches). However, such processing is typically performed at a single scale (e.g., 20× magnification) of WSIs, disregarding the vital inter-scale information that is key to diagnoses by human pathologists. In this study, we propose a novel cross-scale MIL algorithm to explicitly aggregate inter-scale relationships into a single MIL network for pathological image diagnosis. The contribution of this paper is three-fold: (1) A novel cross-scale MIL (CS-MIL) algorithm that integrates the multi-scale information and the inter-scale relationships is proposed; (2) A toy dataset with scale-specific morphological features is created and released to examine and visualize differential cross-scale attention; (3) Superior performance on both in-house and public datasets is demonstrated by our simple cross-scale MIL strategy. The official implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/hrlblab/CS-MIL.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:94

Enthalten in:

Medical image analysis - 94(2024) vom: 01. Apr., Seite 103124

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Deng, Ruining [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Can [VerfasserIn]
Remedios, Lucas W [VerfasserIn]
Bao, Shunxing [VerfasserIn]
Womick, R Michael [VerfasserIn]
Chiron, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Roland, Joseph T [VerfasserIn]
Lau, Ken S [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Keith T [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yaohong [VerfasserIn]
Coburn, Lori A [VerfasserIn]
Landman, Bennett A [VerfasserIn]
Huo, Yuankai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Attention mechanism
Journal Article
Multi-instance learning
Multi-scale
Pathology

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Date Completed 16.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.media.2024.103124

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369181557