ReconMIL: Synergizing Latent Space Reconstruction with Bi-Stream Mamba for Whole Slide Image Analysis

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Main Authors: Gan, Lubin, Zhang, Jing, Zhang, Heng, Di, Xin, Wang, Zhifeng, Huang, Wenke, Sun, Xiaoyan
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author Gan, Lubin
Zhang, Jing
Zhang, Heng
Di, Xin
Wang, Zhifeng
Huang, Wenke
Sun, Xiaoyan
author_facet Gan, Lubin
Zhang, Jing
Zhang, Heng
Di, Xin
Wang, Zhifeng
Huang, Wenke
Sun, Xiaoyan
contents Whole slide image (WSI) analysis heavily relies on multiple instance learning (MIL). While recent methods benefit from large-scale foundation models and advanced sequence modeling to capture long-range dependencies, they still struggle with two critical issues. First, directly applying frozen, task-agnostic features often leads to suboptimal separability due to the domain gap with specific histological tasks. Second, relying solely on global aggregators can cause over-smoothing, where sparse but critical diagnostic signals are overshadowed by the dominant background context. In this paper, we present ReconMIL, a novel framework designed to bridge this domain gap and balance global-local feature aggregation. Our approach introduces a Latent Space Reconstruction module that adaptively projects generic features into a compact, task-specific manifold, improving boundary delineation. To prevent information dilution, we develop a bi-stream architecture combining a Mamba-based global stream for contextual priors and a CNN-based local stream to preserve subtle morphological anomalies. A scale-adaptive selection mechanism dynamically fuses these two streams, determining when to rely on overall architecture versus local saliency. Evaluations across multiple diagnostic and survival prediction benchmarks show that ReconMIL consistently outperforms current state-of-the-art methods, effectively localizing fine-grained diagnostic regions while suppressing background noise. Visualization results confirm the models superior ability to localize diagnostic regions by effectively balancing global structure and local granularity.
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spellingShingle ReconMIL: Synergizing Latent Space Reconstruction with Bi-Stream Mamba for Whole Slide Image Analysis
Gan, Lubin
Zhang, Jing
Zhang, Heng
Di, Xin
Wang, Zhifeng
Huang, Wenke
Sun, Xiaoyan
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Whole slide image (WSI) analysis heavily relies on multiple instance learning (MIL). While recent methods benefit from large-scale foundation models and advanced sequence modeling to capture long-range dependencies, they still struggle with two critical issues. First, directly applying frozen, task-agnostic features often leads to suboptimal separability due to the domain gap with specific histological tasks. Second, relying solely on global aggregators can cause over-smoothing, where sparse but critical diagnostic signals are overshadowed by the dominant background context. In this paper, we present ReconMIL, a novel framework designed to bridge this domain gap and balance global-local feature aggregation. Our approach introduces a Latent Space Reconstruction module that adaptively projects generic features into a compact, task-specific manifold, improving boundary delineation. To prevent information dilution, we develop a bi-stream architecture combining a Mamba-based global stream for contextual priors and a CNN-based local stream to preserve subtle morphological anomalies. A scale-adaptive selection mechanism dynamically fuses these two streams, determining when to rely on overall architecture versus local saliency. Evaluations across multiple diagnostic and survival prediction benchmarks show that ReconMIL consistently outperforms current state-of-the-art methods, effectively localizing fine-grained diagnostic regions while suppressing background noise. Visualization results confirm the models superior ability to localize diagnostic regions by effectively balancing global structure and local granularity.
title ReconMIL: Synergizing Latent Space Reconstruction with Bi-Stream Mamba for Whole Slide Image Analysis
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19925