Developing self-supervised learning (SSL) models that can learn universal and transferable representations of H&E gigapixel whole-slide images (WSIs) is becoming increasingly valuable in computational pathology. These models hold the potential to advance critical tasks such as few-shot classification, slide retrieval, and patient stratification. Existing approaches for slide representation learning extend the principles of SSL from small images (e.g., 224 x 224 patches) to entire slides, usually by aligning two different augmentations (or views) of the slide. Yet the resulting representation remains constrained by the limited clinical and biological diversity of the views. Instead, we postulate that slides stained with multiple markers, such as immunohistochemistry, can be used as different views to form a rich task-agnostic training signal. To this end, we introduce Madeleine, a multimodal pretraining strategy for slide representation learning. Madeleine is trained with a dual global-local cross-stain alignment objective on large cohorts of breast cancer samples (N=4,211 WSIs across five stains) and kidney transplant samples (N=12,070 WSIs across four stains). We demonstrate the quality of slide representations learned by Madeleine on various downstream evaluations, ranging from morphological and molecular classification to prognostic prediction, comprising 21 tasks using 7,299 WSIs from multiple medical centers. Code is available at https://github.com/mahmoodlab/MADELEINE.
Multimodal Whole Slide Foundation Model for Pathology
Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School(哈佛医学院,麻省总医院布里格姆医疗系统);Dana-Farber Cancer Institute(丹娜法伯癌症研究院);Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT(哈佛与麻省理工学院博德研究所);John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University(哈佛大学约翰·A·保尔森工程与应用科学学院);Helmholtz Munich – German Research Center for Environment and Health(亥姆霍兹慕尼黑中心——德国环境与健康研究中心);School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学计算、信息与技术学院);Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院电气工程与计算机科学系);Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院哈佛-麻省卫生科学与技术分部);Department of Pathology, Pusan National University(釜山大学病理学系);Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine(埃默里大学医学院病理学与检验医学系);Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University(哈佛大学哈佛数据科学计划);Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School(哈佛医学院系统生物学系);Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo(东京大学医学部预防医学系)
Regression-based Deep-Learning predicts molecular biomarkers from pathology slides
Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health(埃尔瑟·克勒纳·弗雷森纽斯数字健康中心);TUD Dresden University of Technology(德累斯顿工业大学);University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology(德累斯顿工业大学卡尔·古斯塔夫·卡鲁斯医学院及大学医院);University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais)(瑞士西部应用科学大学(瓦莱州));IBM Research Europe(IBM欧洲研究院);Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers(科尔得利研究所);Sorbonne Université(索邦大学);Université Paris Cité(巴黎城市大学);Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris(巴黎公共医疗援助中心);Université Paris-Est Créteil(巴黎东部克雷泰伊大学);University Hospital RWTH Aachen(亚琛工业大学附属医院);German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)(德国癌症研究中心);National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT)(国家肿瘤疾病中心);German Cancer Consortium (DKTK)(德国癌症联盟);University Hospital Heidelberg(海德堡大学医院);Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center(纪念斯隆凯特琳癌症中心);University of Leeds(利兹大学)
Comparing ImageNet Pre-training with Digital Pathology Foundation Models for Whole Slide Image-Based Survival Analysis
Imperial College London, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, London, UK(帝国理工学院伦敦分校,电子与电气工程系);Department of Pathology, Institut de Pathologie Multisite, Groupement Hospitalier Sud, Lyon University Hospital, Pierre-Bénite, France(病理学系,多站点病理研究所,南部医院集团,里昂大学医院,皮埃尔-贝内蒂,法国);University of Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France(里昂大学, Claude Bernard 里昂第一大学,里昂,法国)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital(布莱根妇女医院);Harvard Medical School(哈佛医学院);Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT(哈佛-麻省理工学院博德研究所);Dana-Farber Cancer Institute(达纳-法伯癌症研究所)
Efficient Self-Supervised Barlow Twins from Limited Tissue Slide Cohorts for Colonic Pathology Diagnostics
University of Concordia(康考迪亚大学);University of Montreal(蒙特利尔大学);Sunnybrook Health Science Centre(桑尼布鲁克健康科学中心);Kingston General Hospital(金斯顿总医院);Mila–Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute(米拉-魁北克人工智能研究所)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital(布里格姆妇女医院);Harvard Medical School(哈佛医学院);Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT(哈佛-麻省理工学院布罗德研究所);Department of Pathology(病理系);Northwell Health(诺斯韦尔健康);Department of Biomedical Informatics(生物医学信息学系);Dana-Farber Cancer Institute(达纳-法伯癌症研究所);Cancer Program(癌症项目);Cancer Data Science(癌症数据科学)
Virchow: A Million-Slide Digital Pathology Foundation Model
Paige;Microsoft Research(微软研究院);NSW Health Pathology(新南威尔士州卫生病理学);St George Hospital(圣乔治医院);Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center(纪念斯隆凯特琳癌症中心);University of Rochester(罗切斯特大学)