Masked Autoencoders Pre-training in Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image ClassificationDownload PDF

Published: 09 May 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023MIDL 2022 Short PapersReaders: Everyone
Keywords: histopathology, self-supervised learning, multiple instance learning
Abstract: End-to-end learning with whole-slide digital pathology images is challenging due to their size, which is in the order of gigapixels. In this paper, we propose a novel weakly-supervised learning strategy that combines masked autoencoders (MAE) with multiple instance learning (MIL). We use the output tokens of a self-supervised, pre-trained MAE as instances and design a token selection module to reduce the impact of global average pooling. We evaluate our framework on the assessment of whole-slide image classification on Camelyon16 dataset, showing improved performance compared to the state-of-the-art CLAM algorithm.
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Paper Type: novel methodological ideas without extensive validation
Primary Subject Area: Application: Histopathology
Secondary Subject Area: Detection and Diagnosis
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