SAC-MIL: Spatial-Aware Correlated Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Classification

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Autores principales: Bai, Yu, Yu, Zitong, Tian, Haowen, Wang, Xijing, Yan, Shuo, Wang, Lin, Li, Honglin, Ling, Xitong, Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Zheng, Wang, Wufan, Gao, Hui, Gong, Xiangyang, Wang, Wendong
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author Bai, Yu
Yu, Zitong
Tian, Haowen
Wang, Xijing
Yan, Shuo
Wang, Lin
Li, Honglin
Ling, Xitong
Zhang, Bo
Zhang, Zheng
Wang, Wufan
Gao, Hui
Gong, Xiangyang
Wang, Wendong
author_facet Bai, Yu
Yu, Zitong
Tian, Haowen
Wang, Xijing
Yan, Shuo
Wang, Lin
Li, Honglin
Ling, Xitong
Zhang, Bo
Zhang, Zheng
Wang, Wufan
Gao, Hui
Gong, Xiangyang
Wang, Wendong
contents We propose Spatial-Aware Correlated Multiple Instance Learning (SAC-MIL) for performing WSI classification. SAC-MIL consists of a positional encoding module to encode position information and a SAC block to perform full instance correlations. The positional encoding module utilizes the instance coordinates within the slide to encode the spatial relationships instead of the instance index in the input WSI sequence. The positional encoding module can also handle the length extrapolation issue where the training and testing sequences have different lengths. The SAC block is an MLP-based method that performs full instance correlation in linear time complexity with respect to the sequence length. Due to the simple structure of MLP, it is easy to deploy since it does not require custom CUDA kernels, compared to Transformer-based methods for WSI classification. SAC-MIL has achieved state-of-the-art performance on the CAMELYON-16, TCGA-LUNG, and TCGA-BRAC datasets. The code will be released upon acceptance.
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spellingShingle SAC-MIL: Spatial-Aware Correlated Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Classification
Bai, Yu
Yu, Zitong
Tian, Haowen
Wang, Xijing
Yan, Shuo
Wang, Lin
Li, Honglin
Ling, Xitong
Zhang, Bo
Zhang, Zheng
Wang, Wufan
Gao, Hui
Gong, Xiangyang
Wang, Wendong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
We propose Spatial-Aware Correlated Multiple Instance Learning (SAC-MIL) for performing WSI classification. SAC-MIL consists of a positional encoding module to encode position information and a SAC block to perform full instance correlations. The positional encoding module utilizes the instance coordinates within the slide to encode the spatial relationships instead of the instance index in the input WSI sequence. The positional encoding module can also handle the length extrapolation issue where the training and testing sequences have different lengths. The SAC block is an MLP-based method that performs full instance correlation in linear time complexity with respect to the sequence length. Due to the simple structure of MLP, it is easy to deploy since it does not require custom CUDA kernels, compared to Transformer-based methods for WSI classification. SAC-MIL has achieved state-of-the-art performance on the CAMELYON-16, TCGA-LUNG, and TCGA-BRAC datasets. The code will be released upon acceptance.
title SAC-MIL: Spatial-Aware Correlated Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Image Classification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03973