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6 papers

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…

cs.CV2026

Atlas 2 -- Foundation models for clinical deployment

Maximilian Alber, Timo Milbich, Alexandra Carpen-Amarie +24

Pathology foundation models substantially advanced the possibilities in computational pathology --- yet tradeoffs in terms of performance, robustness, and computational requirement…

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.CV2025

Atlas: A Novel Pathology Foundation Model by Mayo Clinic, Charité, and Aignostics

Maximilian Alber, Stephan Tietz, Jonas Dippel +24

Recent advances in digital pathology have demonstrated the effectiveness of foundation models across diverse applications. In this report, we present Atlas, a novel vision foundati…

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…