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Dictionary-based Pathology Mining with Hard-instance-assisted Classifier Debiasing for Genetic Biomarker Prediction from WSIs

arXiv 2603.26809 ↗First posted 26 Mar 2026q-bio.QM cs.CV cs.LGcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Prediction of genetic biomarkers, e.g., microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer is crucial for clinical decision making. But, two primary challenges hamper accurate prediction: (1) It is difficult to construct a pathology-aware representation involving the complex interconnections among pathological components. (2) WSIs contain a large proportion of areas unrelated to genetic biomarkers, which make the model easily overfit simple but irrelative instances. We hereby propose a Dictionary-based hierarchical pathology mining with hard-instance-assisted classifier Debiasing framework to address these challenges, dubbed as D2Bio. Our first module, dictionary-based hierarchical pathology mining, is able to mine diverse and very fine-grained pathological contextual interaction without the limit to the distances between patches. The second module, hard-instance-assisted classfier debiasing, learns a debiased classifier via focusing on hard but task-related features, without any additional annotations. Experimental results on five cohorts show the superiority of our method, with over 4% improvement in AUROC compared with the second best on the TCGA-CRC-MSI cohort. Our analysis further shows the clinical interpretability of D2Bio in genetic biomarker diagnosis and potential clinical utility in survival analysis. Code will be available at https://github.com/DeepMed-Lab-ECNU/D2Bio.

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