CRISP -- Clustering-Based Redundancy-Reduced Instance Sampling for Pathology Case Representation and Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24253v1
• Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 22:06:59 GMT
• Title: CRISP -- Clustering-Based Redundancy-Reduced Instance Sampling for Pathology Case Representation and Retrieval
• Abstract summary: Digital pathology archives increasingly contain multiple whole-slide images (WSIs) per case.<n>Most existing approaches rely on a single pathologist-selected slide, thereby discarding potentially informative evidence.<n>Here, we present an unsupervised framework for case-level analysis that integrates information from all available slides within a case.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Digital pathology archives increasingly contain multiple whole-slide images (WSIs) per case, capturing spatially distinct tumour regions and reflecting intrinsic morphological heterogeneity. However, most existing approaches rely on a single pathologist-selected slide, thereby discarding potentially informative evidence distributed across the remaining WSIs. To date, no autonomous framework has been proposed for comprehensive multi-WSI case processing. Here, we present an unsupervised framework for case-level analysis that integrates information from all available slides within a case. Rather than relying on a single designated slide, the proposed approach constructs case-level representations by selectively distilling informative patches across WSIs. We introduce Clustering-Based Redundancy-Reduced Instance Sampling for Pathology (CRISP), a two-stage framework that first reduces redundancy within individual WSIs and subsequently applies clustering-based sampling to select a compact yet representative set of patches for the entire case. The resulting patch set captures case-level heterogeneity while avoiding exhaustive processing of gigapixel images, and directly serves as a retrieval index. Using two Mayo Clinic breast cancer datasets for diagnosis and treatment planning, we demonstrate that CRISP consistently matches or surpasses the current standard practice of combined model and pathologist slide selection for patient/case search and retrieval. By automating case-level processing and eliminating subjective WSI selection, CRISP potentially enables the exploitation of clinically relevant information distributed across multiple WSIs that is currently overlooked.

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