arXiv:2510.13188eess.IV2025-10被引 2

让病理图像的细胞关系自动学习,提升癌症分类准确率。

Approximate Bilevel Graph Structure Learning for Histopathology Image Classification

  • 用神经网络分层建模局部与全局细胞连接关系。
  • 在两个数据集上实现超96%的分类准确率,最高达98.33%。
  • 适合关注病理图像分析与可解释性研究的学者。

组织中细胞的结构与空间分布反映其功能状态,使基于图的学习方法非常适合用于病理图像分析。现有方法通常依赖预定义边的固定图结构,难以捕捉组织相互作用的真实生物复杂性。本文提出ABiG-Net(通过神经网络实现近似双层优化的图结构学习),一种新框架,旨在同时学习全切片图像(WSI)或大兴趣区域(ROI)内补丁间的最优交互关系,并为下游图像分类任务学习有区分性的节点嵌入。该方法在局部与全局尺度上分层建模组织架构:局部层面,基于每个补丁内细胞方向构建补丁级图并提取特征以量化局部结构;全局层面,通过一阶近似双层优化策略学习图像级图,捕捉补丁间稀疏且具有生物学意义的连接,该图随分类性能优化,捕获图像中的长程上下文依赖。通过融合局部结构信息与全局上下文关系,ABiG-Net提升模型可解释性与下游性能。在两个病理数据集上的实验表明其有效性:在扩展的结直肠癌数据集(Extended CRC)上,三分类癌症分级达到97.33 ± 1.15%准确率,二分类达98.33 ± 0.58%;在黑色素瘤数据集上,肿瘤-淋巴细胞补丁分类达到96.27 ± 0.74%准确率。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The structural and spatial arrangements of cells within tissues represent their functional states, making graph-based learning highly suitable for histopathology image analysis. Existing methods often rely on fixed graphs with predefined edges, limiting their ability to capture the true biological complexity of tissue interactions. In this work, we propose ABiG-Net (Approximate Bilevel Optimization for Graph Structure Learning via Neural Networks), a novel framework designed to learn optimal interactions between patches within whole slide images (WSI) or large regions of interest (ROI) while simultaneously learning discriminative node embeddings for the downstream image classification task. Our approach hierarchically models the tissue architecture at local and global scales. At the local scale, we construct patch-level graphs from cellular orientation within each patch and extract features to quantify local structures. At the global scale, we learn an image-level graph that captures sparse, biologically meaningful connections between patches through a first-order approximate bilevel optimization strategy. The learned global graph is optimized in response to classification performance, capturing the long-range contextual dependencies across the image. By unifying local structural information with global contextual relationships, ABiG-Net enhances interpretability and downstream performance. Experiments on two histopathology datasets demonstrate its effectiveness: on the Extended CRC dataset, ABiG-Net achieves 97.33 $\pm$ 1.15 % accuracy for three-class colorectal cancer grading and 98.33 $\pm$ 0.58 % for binary classification; on the melanoma dataset, it attains 96.27 $\pm$ 0.74 % for tumor-lymphocyte ROI classification.

病理图像图神经网络分类

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