WSI-Agents: A Collaborative Multi-Agent System for Multi-Modal Whole Slide Image Analysis

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Autori principali: Lyu, Xinheng, Liang, Yuci, Chen, Wenting, Ding, Meidan, Yang, Jiaqi, Huang, Guolin, Zhang, Daokun, He, Xiangjian, Shen, Linlin
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author Lyu, Xinheng
Liang, Yuci
Chen, Wenting
Ding, Meidan
Yang, Jiaqi
Huang, Guolin
Zhang, Daokun
He, Xiangjian
Shen, Linlin
author_facet Lyu, Xinheng
Liang, Yuci
Chen, Wenting
Ding, Meidan
Yang, Jiaqi
Huang, Guolin
Zhang, Daokun
He, Xiangjian
Shen, Linlin
contents Whole slide images (WSIs) are vital in digital pathology, enabling gigapixel tissue analysis across various pathological tasks. While recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) allow multi-task WSI analysis through natural language, they often underperform compared to task-specific models. Collaborative multi-agent systems have emerged as a promising solution to balance versatility and accuracy in healthcare, yet their potential remains underexplored in pathology-specific domains. To address these issues, we propose WSI-Agents, a novel collaborative multi-agent system for multi-modal WSI analysis. WSI-Agents integrates specialized functional agents with robust task allocation and verification mechanisms to enhance both task-specific accuracy and multi-task versatility through three components: (1) a task allocation module assigning tasks to expert agents using a model zoo of patch and WSI level MLLMs, (2) a verification mechanism ensuring accuracy through internal consistency checks and external validation using pathology knowledge bases and domain-specific models, and (3) a summary module synthesizing the final summary with visual interpretation maps. Extensive experiments on multi-modal WSI benchmarks show WSI-Agents's superiority to current WSI MLLMs and medical agent frameworks across diverse tasks.
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spellingShingle WSI-Agents: A Collaborative Multi-Agent System for Multi-Modal Whole Slide Image Analysis
Lyu, Xinheng
Liang, Yuci
Chen, Wenting
Ding, Meidan
Yang, Jiaqi
Huang, Guolin
Zhang, Daokun
He, Xiangjian
Shen, Linlin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
68T07, 92C55
I.2.7; I.4.8; J.3
Whole slide images (WSIs) are vital in digital pathology, enabling gigapixel tissue analysis across various pathological tasks. While recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) allow multi-task WSI analysis through natural language, they often underperform compared to task-specific models. Collaborative multi-agent systems have emerged as a promising solution to balance versatility and accuracy in healthcare, yet their potential remains underexplored in pathology-specific domains. To address these issues, we propose WSI-Agents, a novel collaborative multi-agent system for multi-modal WSI analysis. WSI-Agents integrates specialized functional agents with robust task allocation and verification mechanisms to enhance both task-specific accuracy and multi-task versatility through three components: (1) a task allocation module assigning tasks to expert agents using a model zoo of patch and WSI level MLLMs, (2) a verification mechanism ensuring accuracy through internal consistency checks and external validation using pathology knowledge bases and domain-specific models, and (3) a summary module synthesizing the final summary with visual interpretation maps. Extensive experiments on multi-modal WSI benchmarks show WSI-Agents's superiority to current WSI MLLMs and medical agent frameworks across diverse tasks.
title WSI-Agents: A Collaborative Multi-Agent System for Multi-Modal Whole Slide Image Analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
68T07, 92C55
I.2.7; I.4.8; J.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14680