arXiv:2503.17983cs.CV2025-03被引 1

通过组织形态引导原型学习,提升乳腺癌病理图像分类精度。

Histomorphology-Guided Prototypical Multi-Instance Learning for Breast Cancer WSI Classification

  • 基于医学先验构建局部切片的形态重要性评估
  • 通过形态原型聚类生成代表性特征,提升分类准确性
  • 适合关注病理图像智能诊断的临床与算法研究者

组织形态学在癌症诊断中至关重要。然而,现有全切片图像(WSI)分类方法难以有效融合组织形态信息,限制了对关键病理特征的捕捉能力。尤其当袋内实例数量多且特征复杂时,准确识别决定袋标签的关键实例变得困难,易受模糊实例干扰。为此,我们提出一种新型的组织形态引导原型多实例学习框架(HGPMIL),通过整合肿瘤细胞密度、细胞形态和组织结构,显式学习组织形态引导的原型表示。具体包括:(1) 基于医学先验知识估计切片级别肿瘤相关形态信息的重要性;(2) 通过组织形态原型聚类生成代表性原型;(3) 通过形态引导原型聚合实现全切片分类。HGPMIL结合形态重要性调整决策边界,降低实例标签不确定性,从而反向优化袋级边界。实验表明,该方法在分子分型、癌症分型及生存分析任务中均达到高诊断准确率。代码将开源于 https://github.com/Badgewho/HMDMIL。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Histomorphology is crucial in cancer diagnosis. However, existing whole slide image (WSI) classification methods struggle to effectively incorporate histomorphology information, limiting their ability to capture key pathological features. Particularly when the number of instances within a bag is large and their features are complex, it becomes challenging to accurately identify instances decisive for the bag label, making these methods prone to interference from ambiguous instances. To address this limitation, we propose a novel Histomorphology-Guided Prototypical Multi-Instance Learning (HGPMIL) framework that explicitly learns histomorphology-guided prototypical representations by incorporating tumor cellularity, cellular morphology, and tissue architecture. Specifically, our approach consists of three key components: (1) estimating the importance of tumor-related histomorphology information at patch-level based on medical prior knowledge; (2) generating representative prototypes through histomorphology-prototypical clustering; and (3) enabling WSI classification through histomorphology-guided prototypical aggregation. HGPMIL adjusts the decision boundary by incorporating histomorphological importance to reduce instance label uncertainty, thereby reversely optimizing the bag-level boundary. Experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness, achieving high diagnostic accuracy for molecular subtyping, cancer subtyping and survival analysis. The code will be made available at https://github.com/Badgewho/HMDMIL.

病理图像多实例学习乳腺癌原型学习

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