Test-Time Instance Selection for Improved Whole Slide Image Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14759v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:05:50 GMT
• Title: Test-Time Instance Selection for Improved Whole Slide Image Analysis
• Abstract summary: Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis has been widely studied for cancer diagnosis.<n>We propose Test-Time Instance Selection (TTIS), a training-free, plug-and-play framework that selects compact yet representative patches during inference.
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• Abstract: Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis has been widely studied for cancer diagnosis. Conventionally, a gigapixel WSI is divided into small patches and processed by Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) models. However, existing MIL models typically process all patches, many of which contain redundant or non-informative tissue patterns. Although recent approaches have focused on instance selection to identify discriminative patches and reduce redundancy, these selection modules still require additional training. In this work, we propose Test-Time Instance Selection (TTIS), a training-free, plug-and-play framework that selects compact yet representative patches during inference. TTIS further incorporates a multi-view ensemble strategy to integrate distinct facets of tissue morphology, enhancing robustness. Importantly, TTIS can be seamlessly integrated into existing MIL models without retraining or architectural changes, enabling flexible deployment. Extensive evaluations across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our approach improves or matches baseline MIL performance across a range of classification and subtyping tasks. Our implementation code is available at https://github.com/QuIIL/TTIS

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