arXiv:2508.09967cs.CV2025-08中稿 · MICCAI 2025被引 1

针对病理图像少样本分类难题,提出自优化分类器提升诊断准确率。

MOC: Meta-Optimized Classifier for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification

  • 用元学习自动筛选最优分类器配置
  • 在1样本条件下提升准确率最高达26.25%
  • 适合标注数据稀缺的临床病理诊断场景

近期病理视觉-语言基础模型(VLFM)在零样本适配下展现解决全切片图像(WSI)分类数据稀缺的潜力。然而,这些方法仍不及在大规模数据上训练的传统多实例学习(MIL)方法,促使研究转向少样本学习范式以增强基于VLFM的WSI分类。现有少样本方法虽在有限标注下提升诊断准确率,但依赖传统分类器设计,在数据稀缺时存在严重缺陷。为此,本文提出元优化分类器(MOC),包含两个核心组件:(1) 元学习器,从候选分类器混合体中自动优化分类器配置;(2) 分类器库,存储多样候选分类器以实现全面病理解读。大量实验表明,MOC在多个少样本基准上优于现有方法。尤其在TCGA-NSCLC基准上,相比最先进少样本VLFM方法,AUC提升10.4%,在1样本条件下最高提升达26.25%,为标注数据严重受限的临床部署提供关键进展。代码已开源:https://github.com/xmed-lab/MOC。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent advances in histopathology vision-language foundation models (VLFMs) have shown promise in addressing data scarcity for whole slide image (WSI) classification via zero-shot adaptation. However, these methods remain outperformed by conventional multiple instance learning (MIL) approaches trained on large datasets, motivating recent efforts to enhance VLFM-based WSI classification through fewshot learning paradigms. While existing few-shot methods improve diagnostic accuracy with limited annotations, their reliance on conventional classifier designs introduces critical vulnerabilities to data scarcity. To address this problem, we propose a Meta-Optimized Classifier (MOC) comprising two core components: (1) a meta-learner that automatically optimizes a classifier configuration from a mixture of candidate classifiers and (2) a classifier bank housing diverse candidate classifiers to enable a holistic pathological interpretation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MOC outperforms prior arts in multiple few-shot benchmarks. Notably, on the TCGA-NSCLC benchmark, MOC improves AUC by 10.4% over the state-of-the-art few-shot VLFM-based methods, with gains up to 26.25% under 1-shot conditions, offering a critical advancement for clinical deployments where diagnostic training data is severely limited. Code is available at https://github.com/xmed-lab/MOC.

少样本学习病理图像元学习VLFM

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