CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology

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Main Authors: Sun, Yuxuan, Si, Yixuan, Zhu, Chenglu, Gong, Xuan, Zhang, Kai, Chen, Pingyi, Zhang, Ye, Shui, Zhongyi, Lin, Tao, Yang, Lin
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author Sun, Yuxuan
Si, Yixuan
Zhu, Chenglu
Gong, Xuan
Zhang, Kai
Chen, Pingyi
Zhang, Ye
Shui, Zhongyi
Lin, Tao
Yang, Lin
author_facet Sun, Yuxuan
Si, Yixuan
Zhu, Chenglu
Gong, Xuan
Zhang, Kai
Chen, Pingyi
Zhang, Ye
Shui, Zhongyi
Lin, Tao
Yang, Lin
contents The emergence of large multimodal models (LMMs) has brought significant advancements to pathology. Previous research has primarily focused on separately training patch-level and whole-slide image (WSI)-level models, limiting the integration of learned knowledge across patches and WSIs, and resulting in redundant models. In this work, we introduce CPath-Omni, the first 15-billion-parameter LMM designed to unify both patch and WSI level image analysis, consolidating a variety of tasks at both levels, including classification, visual question answering, captioning, and visual referring prompting. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPath-Omni achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across seven diverse tasks on 39 out of 42 datasets, outperforming or matching task-specific models trained for individual tasks. Additionally, we develop a specialized pathology CLIP-based visual processor for CPath-Omni, CPath-CLIP, which, for the first time, integrates different vision models and incorporates a large language model as a text encoder to build a more powerful CLIP model, which achieves SOTA performance on nine zero-shot and four few-shot datasets. Our findings highlight CPath-Omni's ability to unify diverse pathology tasks, demonstrating its potential to streamline and advance the field of foundation model in pathology.
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spellingShingle CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology
Sun, Yuxuan
Si, Yixuan
Zhu, Chenglu
Gong, Xuan
Zhang, Kai
Chen, Pingyi
Zhang, Ye
Shui, Zhongyi
Lin, Tao
Yang, Lin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The emergence of large multimodal models (LMMs) has brought significant advancements to pathology. Previous research has primarily focused on separately training patch-level and whole-slide image (WSI)-level models, limiting the integration of learned knowledge across patches and WSIs, and resulting in redundant models. In this work, we introduce CPath-Omni, the first 15-billion-parameter LMM designed to unify both patch and WSI level image analysis, consolidating a variety of tasks at both levels, including classification, visual question answering, captioning, and visual referring prompting. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPath-Omni achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across seven diverse tasks on 39 out of 42 datasets, outperforming or matching task-specific models trained for individual tasks. Additionally, we develop a specialized pathology CLIP-based visual processor for CPath-Omni, CPath-CLIP, which, for the first time, integrates different vision models and incorporates a large language model as a text encoder to build a more powerful CLIP model, which achieves SOTA performance on nine zero-shot and four few-shot datasets. Our findings highlight CPath-Omni's ability to unify diverse pathology tasks, demonstrating its potential to streamline and advance the field of foundation model in pathology.
title CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12077