Conditional Random Fields for Interactive Refinement of Histopathological Predictions
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| author | Godelaine, Tiffanie Zanella, Maxime Khoury, Karim El Mahmoudi, Saïd Macq, Benoît De Vleeschouwer, Christophe |
| author_facet | Godelaine, Tiffanie Zanella, Maxime Khoury, Karim El Mahmoudi, Saïd Macq, Benoît De Vleeschouwer, Christophe |
| contents | Assisting pathologists in the analysis of histopathological images has high clinical value, as it supports cancer detection and staging. In this context, histology foundation models have recently emerged. Among them, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) provide strong yet imperfect zero-shot predictions. We propose to refine these predictions by adapting Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to histopathological applications, requiring no additional model training. We present HistoCRF, a CRF-based framework, with a novel definition of the pairwise potential that promotes label diversity and leverages expert annotations. We consider three experiments: without annotations, with expert annotations, and with iterative human-in-the-loop annotations that progressively correct misclassified patches. Experiments on five patch-level classification datasets covering different organs and diseases demonstrate average accuracy gains of 16.0% without annotations and 27.5% with only 100 annotations, compared to zero-shot predictions. Moreover, integrating a human in the loop reaches a further gain of 32.6% with the same number of annotations. The code will be made available on https://github.com/tgodelaine/HistoCRF. |
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| spellingShingle | Conditional Random Fields for Interactive Refinement of Histopathological Predictions Godelaine, Tiffanie Zanella, Maxime Khoury, Karim El Mahmoudi, Saïd Macq, Benoît De Vleeschouwer, Christophe Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Assisting pathologists in the analysis of histopathological images has high clinical value, as it supports cancer detection and staging. In this context, histology foundation models have recently emerged. Among them, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) provide strong yet imperfect zero-shot predictions. We propose to refine these predictions by adapting Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to histopathological applications, requiring no additional model training. We present HistoCRF, a CRF-based framework, with a novel definition of the pairwise potential that promotes label diversity and leverages expert annotations. We consider three experiments: without annotations, with expert annotations, and with iterative human-in-the-loop annotations that progressively correct misclassified patches. Experiments on five patch-level classification datasets covering different organs and diseases demonstrate average accuracy gains of 16.0% without annotations and 27.5% with only 100 annotations, compared to zero-shot predictions. Moreover, integrating a human in the loop reaches a further gain of 32.6% with the same number of annotations. The code will be made available on https://github.com/tgodelaine/HistoCRF. |
| title | Conditional Random Fields for Interactive Refinement of Histopathological Predictions |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12082 |