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author Vorontsov, Eugene
Bozkurt, Alican
Casson, Adam
Shaikovski, George
Zelechowski, Michal
Liu, Siqi
Severson, Kristen
Zimmermann, Eric
Hall, James
Tenenholtz, Neil
Fusi, Nicolo
Mathieu, Philippe
van Eck, Alexander
Lee, Donghun
Viret, Julian
Robert, Eric
Wang, Yi Kan
Kunz, Jeremy D.
Lee, Matthew C. H.
Bernhard, Jan
Godrich, Ran A.
Oakley, Gerard
Millar, Ewan
Hanna, Matthew
Retamero, Juan
Moye, William A.
Yousfi, Razik
Kanan, Christopher
Klimstra, David
Rothrock, Brandon
Fuchs, Thomas J.
author_facet Vorontsov, Eugene
Bozkurt, Alican
Casson, Adam
Shaikovski, George
Zelechowski, Michal
Liu, Siqi
Severson, Kristen
Zimmermann, Eric
Hall, James
Tenenholtz, Neil
Fusi, Nicolo
Mathieu, Philippe
van Eck, Alexander
Lee, Donghun
Viret, Julian
Robert, Eric
Wang, Yi Kan
Kunz, Jeremy D.
Lee, Matthew C. H.
Bernhard, Jan
Godrich, Ran A.
Oakley, Gerard
Millar, Ewan
Hanna, Matthew
Retamero, Juan
Moye, William A.
Yousfi, Razik
Kanan, Christopher
Klimstra, David
Rothrock, Brandon
Fuchs, Thomas J.
contents The use of artificial intelligence to enable precision medicine and decision support systems through the analysis of pathology images has the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Such applications will depend on models' abilities to capture the diverse patterns observed in pathology images. To address this challenge, we present Virchow, a foundation model for computational pathology. Using self-supervised learning empowered by the DINOv2 algorithm, Virchow is a vision transformer model with 632 million parameters trained on 1.5 million hematoxylin and eosin stained whole slide images from diverse tissue and specimen types, which is orders of magnitude more data than previous works. The Virchow model enables the development of a pan-cancer detection system with 0.949 overall specimen-level AUC across 17 different cancer types, while also achieving 0.937 AUC on 7 rare cancer types. The Virchow model sets the state-of-the-art on the internal and external image tile level benchmarks and slide level biomarker prediction tasks. The gains in performance highlight the importance of training on massive pathology image datasets, suggesting scaling up the data and network architecture can improve the accuracy for many high-impact computational pathology applications where limited amounts of training data are available.
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spellingShingle Virchow: A Million-Slide Digital Pathology Foundation Model
Vorontsov, Eugene
Bozkurt, Alican
Casson, Adam
Shaikovski, George
Zelechowski, Michal
Liu, Siqi
Severson, Kristen
Zimmermann, Eric
Hall, James
Tenenholtz, Neil
Fusi, Nicolo
Mathieu, Philippe
van Eck, Alexander
Lee, Donghun
Viret, Julian
Robert, Eric
Wang, Yi Kan
Kunz, Jeremy D.
Lee, Matthew C. H.
Bernhard, Jan
Godrich, Ran A.
Oakley, Gerard
Millar, Ewan
Hanna, Matthew
Retamero, Juan
Moye, William A.
Yousfi, Razik
Kanan, Christopher
Klimstra, David
Rothrock, Brandon
Fuchs, Thomas J.
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Tissues and Organs
The use of artificial intelligence to enable precision medicine and decision support systems through the analysis of pathology images has the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Such applications will depend on models' abilities to capture the diverse patterns observed in pathology images. To address this challenge, we present Virchow, a foundation model for computational pathology. Using self-supervised learning empowered by the DINOv2 algorithm, Virchow is a vision transformer model with 632 million parameters trained on 1.5 million hematoxylin and eosin stained whole slide images from diverse tissue and specimen types, which is orders of magnitude more data than previous works. The Virchow model enables the development of a pan-cancer detection system with 0.949 overall specimen-level AUC across 17 different cancer types, while also achieving 0.937 AUC on 7 rare cancer types. The Virchow model sets the state-of-the-art on the internal and external image tile level benchmarks and slide level biomarker prediction tasks. The gains in performance highlight the importance of training on massive pathology image datasets, suggesting scaling up the data and network architecture can improve the accuracy for many high-impact computational pathology applications where limited amounts of training data are available.
title Virchow: A Million-Slide Digital Pathology Foundation Model
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Tissues and Organs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07778