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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology

Yanqing Luo, Julius Hense, Niklas Prenißl +4

Explanations of multiple instance learning (MIL) models are widely used for validation and discovery in digital histopathology. Existing methods primarily rely on heatmaps that hig…

cs.LG2026

In-Context Multiple Instance Learning

Alexander Möllers, Marvin Sextro, Julius Hense +2

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) addresses problems where supervision is available at the level of bags of instances and has been successfully applied in fields ranging from comput…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Attention Heatmaps: How to Get Better Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning Models in Histopathology

Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Julius Hense, Tom Neuhäuser +12

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has enabled substantial progress in computational histopathology, where a large amount of patches from gigapixel whole slide images are aggregated…

eess.IV2025

Towards Robust Foundation Models for Digital Pathology

Jonah Kömen, Edwin D. de Jong, Julius Hense +9

Biomedical Foundation Models (FMs) are rapidly transforming AI-enabled healthcare research and entering clinical validation. However, their susceptibility to learning non-biologica…

eess.IV2025

MeDi: Metadata-Guided Diffusion Models for Mitigating Biases in Tumor Classification

David Jacob Drexlin, Jonas Dippel, Julius Hense +4

Deep learning models have made significant advances in histological prediction tasks in recent years. However, for adaptation in clinical practice, their lack of robustness to vary…

cs.LG2025

xMIL: Insightful Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Histopathology

Julius Hense, Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Oliver Eberle +7

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is an effective and widely used approach for weakly supervised machine learning. In histopathology, MIL models have achieved remarkable success in…