Weakly supervised histopathology image segmentation with self-attention

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Kailu Li, Ziniu Qian, Yingnan Han, Eric I-Chao Chang, Bingzheng Wei, Maode Lai, Jing Liao, Yubo Fan, Yan Xu

Published: 2023, Last Modified: 12 Nov 2025Medical Image Anal. 2023EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Introducing the self-attention mechanism into the standard MIL framework.•The self-attention module captures correlation between independent instances in MIL.•Deep supervision provides more supervised information for the network.•Evaluation on two cancer datasets and performance close to fully-supervised methods.