Multiscale tumor characterization in histopathology via self-distilled transformers and topology-aware visual encoding

利用自精炼Transformer和拓扑感知视觉编码进行组织病理学中的多尺度肿瘤表征

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Abstract

The increasing complexity of whole slide images in histopathology requires models that would be accurate across magnifications while being robust to visual, topological, and contextual variations in the setting. Thus far, existing approaches have either failed to generalize across various resolutions, have ignored the inherent structural relationships within tissue architecture, or have not integrated a mechanism to adaptively prioritize samples during training. Aside from this, most approaches do not consider both pixel-level appearance and morphological context, which restricts their diagnostic reliability sets. This research aims to address these limitations by providing a framework for Multiscale Tumor Characterization by synergizing RepVGG-DINO encoders, self-distilled visual transformers, and hierarchical attentions. The Pathology-Adaptive Uncertainty-Aware Consistency (PAUAC) Framework ensures consistency in prediction across 10 and 40 and introduces a dual-branch consistency model with uncertainty-weighted KL divergence regularization. The Structural Attention-Constrained Graph Regularizer (SACGR) which is a topology-aware visual encoding technique focuses on constrains attention in the ViT decoders thereby embedding spatial priors from superpixel-based graphs into them. The Multiscale Pathology Curriculum Scheduler (MPCS) creates a sample prioritization mechanism based on entropy, guiding the training from simpler to more complex tissue patterns. The Transformer-Driven Dual-Modality Morphometry Network integrates H&E image features with Voronoi-based nuclear morphometry using cross-modal self-attention to enhance representational richness for the process. Finally, the Contrastive Cell-Contextual Representation Alignment (CCCRA) module improves embedding consistency across different magnifications by using positional contrastive learning sets. The combination of these modules brings measurable improvements (+2.3% Dice score, +21% faster convergence, +3.7% accuracy for morphologically ambiguous samples, and +12.6% normalized mutual information in embeddings) sets. This work marks a great leap in tumor characterization within histopathology, establishing resolution-aware, topology-constrained, and morphology-fused learning in an interpretable and scalable manner for the process.

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