Lesion-Aware Contrastive Representation Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Images Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13115v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:39:51 GMT
• Title: Lesion-Aware Contrastive Representation Learning for Histopathology Whole Slide Images Analysis
• Authors: Jun Li, Yushan Zheng, Kun Wu, Jun Shi, Fengying Xie, Zhiguo Jiang
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel contrastive representation learning framework named Lesion-Aware Contrastive Learning (LACL) for histopathology whole slide image analysis. The experimental results demonstrate that LACL achieves the best performance in histopathology image representation learning on different datasets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Local representation learning has been a key challenge to promote the performance of the histopathological whole slide images analysis. The previous representation learning methods followed the supervised learning paradigm. However, manual annotation for large-scale WSIs is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Hence, the self-supervised contrastive learning has recently attracted intensive attention. The present contrastive learning methods treat each sample as a single class, which suffers from class collision problems, especially in the domain of histopathology image analysis. In this paper, we proposed a novel contrastive representation learning framework named Lesion-Aware Contrastive Learning (LACL) for histopathology whole slide image analysis. We built a lesion queue based on the memory bank structure to store the representations of different classes of WSIs, which allowed the contrastive model to selectively define the negative pairs during the training. Moreover, We designed a queue refinement strategy to purify the representations stored in the lesion queue. The experimental results demonstrate that LACL achieves the best performance in histopathology image representation learning on different datasets, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods under different WSI classification benchmarks. The code is available at https://github.com/junl21/lacl.

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