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most citedAgent Aggregator with Mask Denoise Mechanism for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis

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28 papers

cs.LG2026

SpaFactor: Lightweight Spatial Context-Aware Gene Program Modeling for Histology-to-Transcriptomics Inference

Shiting Ruan, Xitong Ling, Qiming He +6

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) profiles gene expression within tissue architecture, but its cost and experimental complexity limit routine use. Predicting spatial expression from rou…

cs.CV2026

DeCo-MIL: Debiased Counterfactual Reasoning for Long-Tailed Whole Slide Image Analysis

Xiaoxiao Li, Xitong Ling, Jiawen Li +6

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is widely used for weakly supervised whole slide image (WSI) analysis. However, under long-tailed distributions, MIL-based WSI analysis faces a nes…

cs.CV2026

Pretraining Multiple Instance Learning Networks with Multi-Teacher Distillation from Pathology Slide Foundation Models

Mingxi Fu, Jiawen Li, Renao Yan +4

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has become the main paradigm for whole-slide image (WSI) analysis in computational pathology. However, existing MIL aggregators are still typically…

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.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.CV2026

GloPath: An Entity-Centric Foundation Model for Glomerular Lesion Assessment and Clinicopathological Insights

Qiming He, Jing Li, Tian Guan +26

Glomerular pathology is central to the diagnosis and prognosis of renal diseases, yet the heterogeneity of glomerular morphology and fine-grained lesion patterns remain challenging…

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…

cs.CV2025

HookMIL: Revisiting Context Modeling in Multiple Instance Learning for Computational Pathology

Xitong Ling, Minxi Ouyang, Xiaoxiao Li +7

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has enabled weakly supervised analysis of whole-slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology. However, traditional MIL approaches often lose cruc…

cs.CV2025

StainNet: Scaling Self-Supervised Foundation Models on Immunohistochemistry and Special Stains for Computational Pathology

Jiawen Li, Jiali Hu, Xitong Ling +6

Foundation models trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale histological images have significantly accelerated the development of computational pathology. These mo…

cs.CV2025

From Generic to Specialized: A Subspecialty Diagnostic System Powered by Self-Supervised Learning for Cervical Histopathology

Yizhi Wang, Li Chen, Qiang Huang +24

Cervical cancer remains a major malignancy, necessitating extensive and complex histopathological assessments and comprehensive support tools. Although deep learning shows promise,…

cs.CL2025

YpathRAG:A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework and Benchmark for Pathology

Deshui Yu, Yizhi Wang, Saihui Jin +9

Large language models (LLMs) excel on general tasks yet still hallucinate in high-barrier domains such as pathology. Prior work often relies on domain fine-tuning, which neither ex…

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…

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.IV2025

DiagR1: A Vision-Language Model Trained via Reinforcement Learning for Digestive Pathology Diagnosis

Minxi Ouyang, Lianghui Zhu, Yaqing Bao +10

Multimodal large models have shown great potential in automating pathology image analysis. However, current multimodal models for gastrointestinal pathology are constrained by both…

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.CL2025

A Simple Linear Patch Revives Layer-Pruned Large Language Models

Xinrui Chen, Haoli Bai, Tao Yuan +7

Layer pruning has emerged as a widely used technique for compressing large language models (LLMs). However, existing layer pruning approaches often incur substantial performance de…

cs.CV2025

Cross-Modal Prototype Allocation: Unsupervised Slide Representation Learning via Patch-Text Contrast in Computational Pathology

Yuxuan Chen, Jiawen Li, Jiali Hu +4

With the rapid advancement of pathology foundation models (FMs), the representation learning of whole slide images (WSIs) attracts increasing attention. Existing studies develop hi…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Distillation-Driven Ensemble Learning for Long-Tailed Histopathology Whole Slide Images Analysis

Xitong Ling, Yifeng Ping, Jiawen Li +8

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) plays a significant role in computational pathology, enabling weakly supervised analysis of Whole Slide Image (WSI) datasets. The field of WSI anal…

cs.CV2025

Can We Simplify Slide-level Fine-tuning of Pathology Foundation Models?

Jiawen Li, Jiali Hu, Qiehe Sun +6

The emergence of foundation models in computational pathology has transformed histopathological image analysis, with whole slide imaging (WSI) diagnosis being a core application. T…

cs.CV2025

Dynamic Hypergraph Representation for Bone Metastasis Cancer Analysis

Yuxuan Chen, Jiawen Li, Huijuan Shi +5

Bone metastasis analysis is a significant challenge in pathology and plays a critical role in determining patient quality of life and treatment strategies. The microenvironment and…

eess.IV2024

Unlocking adaptive digital pathology through dynamic feature learning

Jiawen Li, Tian Guan, Qingxin Xia +17

Foundation models have revolutionized the paradigm of digital pathology, as they leverage general-purpose features to emulate real-world pathological practices, enabling the quanti…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Towards a Comprehensive Benchmark for Pathological Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Sections

Xitong Ling, Yuanyuan Lei, Jiawen Li +5

Advances in optical microscopy scanning have significantly contributed to computational pathology (CPath) by converting traditional histopathological slides into whole slide images…

cs.CV2024

Diagnostic Text-guided Representation Learning in Hierarchical Classification for Pathological Whole Slide Image

Jiawen Li, Qiehe Sun, Renao Yan +7

With the development of digital imaging in medical microscopy, artificial intelligent-based analysis of pathological whole slide images (WSIs) provides a powerful tool for cancer d…

cs.CV2024★ 16 cited

Agent Aggregator with Mask Denoise Mechanism for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis

Xitong Ling, Minxi Ouyang, Yizhi Wang +8

Histopathology analysis is the gold standard for medical diagnosis. Accurate classification of whole slide images (WSIs) and region-of-interests (ROIs) localization can assist path…