A Prototype-Guided Coarse Annotations Refining Approach for Whole Slide Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19407v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:34:06 GMT
• Title: A Prototype-Guided Coarse Annotations Refining Approach for Whole Slide Images
• Authors: Bingjian Yao, Weiping Lin, Yan He, Zheng Wang, Liangsheng Wang,
• Abstract summary: Fine-grained annotations in whole slide images show the boundaries of various pathological regions.<n>Existing methods for refining coarse annotations often rely on extensive training samples or clean datasets.<n>In this paper, we propose a prototype-guided approach.
• Score: 4.562061988943637
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The fine-grained annotations in whole slide images (WSIs) show the boundaries of various pathological regions. However, generating such detailed annotation is often costly, whereas the coarse annotations are relatively simpler to produce. Existing methods for refining coarse annotations often rely on extensive training samples or clean datasets, and fail to capture both intra-slide and inter-slide latent sematic patterns, limiting their precision. In this paper, we propose a prototype-guided approach. Specifically, we introduce a local-to-global approach to construct non-redundant representative prototypes by jointly modeling intra-slide local semantics and inter-slide contextual relationships. Then a prototype-guided pseudo-labeling module is proposed for refining coarse annotations. Finally, we employ dynamic data sampling and re-finetuning strategy to train a patch classifier. Extensive experiments on three publicly available WSI datasets, covering lymph, liver, and colorectal cancers, demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. The code will be available.

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