Adaptive Learning Strategies for Mitotic Figure Classification in MIDOG2025 Challenge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02640v2
• Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:00:52 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Learning Strategies for Mitotic Figure Classification in MIDOG2025 Challenge
• Authors: Biwen Meng, Xi Long, Jingxin Liu,
• Abstract summary: We investigated three variants of adapting the pathology foundation model UNI2 for the MIDOG2025 Track 2 challenge.<n>We observed that the integration of Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) with stain normalization techniques contributed to improved generalization.<n>Our final submission achieved a balanced accuracy of 0.8837 and an ROC-AUC of 0.9513 on the preliminary leaderboard, ranking within the top 10 teams.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Atypical mitotic figures (AMFs) are clinically relevant indicators of abnormal cell division, yet their reliable detection remains challenging due to morphological ambiguity and scanner variability. In this work, we investigated three variants of adapting the pathology foundation model UNI2 for the MIDOG2025 Track 2 challenge: (1) LoRA + UNI2, (2) VPT + UNI2 + Vahadane Normalizer, and (3) VPT + UNI2 + GRL + Stain TTA. We observed that the integration of Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) with stain normalization techniques contributed to improved generalization. The best robustness was achieved by further incorporating test-time augmentation (TTA) with Vahadane and Macenko stain normalization. Our final submission achieved a balanced accuracy of 0.8837 and an ROC-AUC of 0.9513 on the preliminary leaderboard, ranking within the top 10 teams. These results suggest that prompt-based adaptation combined with stain-normalization TTA offers a promising strategy for atypical mitosis classification under diverse imaging conditions.

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