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Publications (7)

cs.CV2026

SlideCheck: Guiding Self-Supervised Pretraining of Pathology Foundation Models via Dataset Distributions

Mingyi He, Xinyi Guo, Xitong Ling +7

Pathology foundation models are pretrained on large streams of WSI-derived patches, while supervision during data construction is often slide-level, sparse, or heterogeneous. This…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Prototype Alignment for Semi-supervised Pathology Image Segmentation

Mingxi Fu, Fanglei Fu, Xitong Ling +4

Pathological image segmentation faces numerous challenges, particularly due to ambiguous semantic boundaries and the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Although recent semi-supe…

eess.IV2025

Subspecialty-Specific Foundation Model for Intelligent Gastrointestinal Pathology

Lianghui Zhu, Xitong Ling, Minxi Ouyang +24

Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases represent a clinically significant burden, necessitating precise diagnostic approaches to optimize patient outcomes. Conventional histopathological d…

cs.CV2026

ALICE: Learning a General-Purpose Pathology Foundation Model from Vision, Vision-Language, and Slide-Level Experts

Jiawen Li, Tian Guan, Huijuan Shi +5

Foundation models are reshaping computational pathology, yet their capabilities remain shaped by pretraining objectives, data sources, and spatial scales, fragmenting complementary…

cs.CV2025

Deformable Attention Graph Representation Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis

Mingxi Fu, Xitong Ling, Yuxuan Chen +6

Accurate classification of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) and Regions of Interest (ROIs) is a fundamental challenge in computational pathology. While mainstream approaches often adopt M…

eess.IV2026

To What Extent Do Token-Level Representations from Pathology Foundation Models Improve Dense Prediction?

Weiming Chen, Xitong Ling, Xidong Wang +10

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have rapidly advanced and are becoming a common backbone for downstream clinical tasks, offering strong transferability across tissues and instit…