Towards Explainable End-to-End Prostate Cancer Relapse Prediction from H&E Images Combining Self-Attention Multiple Instance Learning with a Recurrent Neural Network

Esther Dietrich, Patrick Fuhlert, Anne Ernst, Guido Sauter, Maximilian Lennartz, H. Siegfried Stiehl, Marina Zimmermann, Stefan Bonn

Abstract: Clinical decision support for histopathology image data mainly focuses on strongly supervised annotations, which offers intuitive interpretability, but is bound by expert performance. Here, we prop...