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\jmlryear{2026}
\jmlrworkshop{Full Paper -- MIDL 2026}
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\editors{Accepted for publication at MIDL 2026}

\title[From Pixels to Histopathology]{From Pixels to Histopathology: A Graph-Based Framework for Interpretable Whole Slide Image Analysis}

\midlauthor{\Name{Alexander Weers\nametag{$^{1,2}$}} \Email{alexander.weers@tum.de}\\
\Name{Alexander H. Berger\nametag{$^{1,3}$}}\\
\Name{Laurin Lux\nametag{$^{1,2,3}$}} \\
\Name{Peter Sch\"uffler\nametag{$^{1,2,4,5}$}}\\
\Name{Daniel Rueckert\nametag{$^{1,2,5,6}$}}\\
\Name{Johannes C. Paetzold\nametag{$^{3,7}$}} \Email{jpaetzold@med.cornell.edu}\AND
\addr $^{1}$ TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, DE \\
\addr $^{2}$ Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, DE \\
\addr $^{3}$ Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, NY, US \\
\addr $^{4}$ Institute of Pathology, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, DE \\
\addr $^{5}$ Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), Technical University of Munich, Munich, DE \\
\addr $^{6}$ Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK \\
\addr $^{7}$ Cornell Tech, New York, NY, US
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\begin{keywords}
Whole Slide Image, Computational Pathology, Interpretable AI, Graph Representation Learning
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\section{Introduction}
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\section{Related work}
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\section{Method}
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\section{Results \& Discussion}
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\midlacknowledgments{We thank Dr. med. Franz-Leonard Klaus, for serving as a medical expert in the qualitative evaluation and providing helpful insights into clinical workflows.
This work was partially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) as part of the Software Campus 3.0 (TU München) under grant number 01IS23069.}


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