Multimodal Model for Computational Pathology:Representation Learning and Image Compression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18660v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:24:44 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Model for Computational Pathology:Representation Learning and Image Compression
• Abstract summary: Whole slide imaging (WSI) has transformed digital pathology by enabling computational analysis of gigapixel histopathology images.<n>This review comprehensively surveys recent advances in multimodal computational pathology.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Whole slide imaging (WSI) has transformed digital pathology by enabling computational analysis of gigapixel histopathology images. Recent foundation model advances have accelerated progress in computational pathology, facilitating joint reasoning across pathology images, clinical reports, and structured data. Despite this progress, challenges remain: the extreme resolution of WSIs creates computational hurdles for visual learning; limited expert annotations constrain supervised approaches; integrating multimodal information while preserving biological interpretability remains difficult; and the opacity of modeling ultra-long visual sequences hinders clinical transparency. This review comprehensively surveys recent advances in multimodal computational pathology. We systematically analyze four research directions: (1) self-supervised representation learning and structure-aware token compression for WSIs; (2) multimodal data generation and augmentation; (3) parameter-efficient adaptation and reasoning-enhanced few-shot learning; and (4) multi-agent collaborative reasoning for trustworthy diagnosis. We specifically examine how token compression enables cross-scale modeling and how multi-agent mechanisms simulate a pathologist's "Chain of Thought" across magnifications to achieve uncertainty-aware evidence fusion. Finally, we discuss open challenges and argue that future progress depends on unified multimodal frameworks integrating high-resolution visual data with clinical and biomedical knowledge to support interpretable and safe AI-assisted diagnosis.

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