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| author | Wang, Yuanlong Chen, Weichi Rajab, Adrian Liu, Wenfang Jin, Yulan Srisuwananukorn, Andrew Zhang, Ping |
| author_facet | Wang, Yuanlong Chen, Weichi Rajab, Adrian Liu, Wenfang Jin, Yulan Srisuwananukorn, Andrew Zhang, Ping |
| contents | Peripheral Blood Smear (PBS) is a critical microscopic examination in hematopathology that yields whole-slide imaging (WSI). Unlike solid tissue pathology, PBS interpretation focuses on individual cell morphologies rather than tissue architecture, making it distinct in both visual characteristics and diagnostic reasoning. However, current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for pathology are primarily developed on solid-tissue WSIs and struggle to generalize to PBS. To bridge this gap, we construct PBSInstr, the first vision-language dataset for PBS interpretation, comprising 353 PBS WSIs paired with microscopic impression paragraphs and 29k cell-level image crops annotated with cell type labels and morphological descriptions. To facilitate instruction tuning, PBSInstr further includes 27k question-answer (QA) pairs for cell crops and 1,286 QA pairs for PBS slides. Building upon PBSInstr, we develop PBS-VL, a hematopathology-tailored vision-language model for multi-level PBS interpretation at both cell and slide levels. To comprehensively evaluate PBS understanding, we construct PBSBench, a visual question answering (VQA) benchmark featuring four question categories and six PBS interpretation tasks. Experiments show that PBS-VL outperforms existing general-purpose and pathology MLLMs, underscoring the value of PBS-specific data. We release our code, datasets, and model weights to facilitate future research. Our proposed framework lays the foundation for developing practical AI assistants supporting decision-making in hematopathology. |
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| spellingShingle | PBSBench: A Multi-Level Vision-Language Framework and Benchmark for Hematopathology Whole Slide Image Interpretation Wang, Yuanlong Chen, Weichi Rajab, Adrian Liu, Wenfang Jin, Yulan Srisuwananukorn, Andrew Zhang, Ping Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence J.3; I.4; I.2 Peripheral Blood Smear (PBS) is a critical microscopic examination in hematopathology that yields whole-slide imaging (WSI). Unlike solid tissue pathology, PBS interpretation focuses on individual cell morphologies rather than tissue architecture, making it distinct in both visual characteristics and diagnostic reasoning. However, current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for pathology are primarily developed on solid-tissue WSIs and struggle to generalize to PBS. To bridge this gap, we construct PBSInstr, the first vision-language dataset for PBS interpretation, comprising 353 PBS WSIs paired with microscopic impression paragraphs and 29k cell-level image crops annotated with cell type labels and morphological descriptions. To facilitate instruction tuning, PBSInstr further includes 27k question-answer (QA) pairs for cell crops and 1,286 QA pairs for PBS slides. Building upon PBSInstr, we develop PBS-VL, a hematopathology-tailored vision-language model for multi-level PBS interpretation at both cell and slide levels. To comprehensively evaluate PBS understanding, we construct PBSBench, a visual question answering (VQA) benchmark featuring four question categories and six PBS interpretation tasks. Experiments show that PBS-VL outperforms existing general-purpose and pathology MLLMs, underscoring the value of PBS-specific data. We release our code, datasets, and model weights to facilitate future research. Our proposed framework lays the foundation for developing practical AI assistants supporting decision-making in hematopathology. |
| title | PBSBench: A Multi-Level Vision-Language Framework and Benchmark for Hematopathology Whole Slide Image Interpretation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence J.3; I.4; I.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17570 |