PathoArgus: Advancing Evidence-Grounded Long-Context Visual Reasoning across Gigapixel Whole-Slide and Multi-Slide Case Contexts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17607v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:16:33 GMT
• Title: PathoArgus: Advancing Evidence-Grounded Long-Context Visual Reasoning across Gigapixel Whole-Slide and Multi-Slide Case Contexts
• Abstract summary: We introduce PathoArgus-Bench, a benchmark and evaluation protocol that explicitly tests the full evidence chain.<n>PathoArgus-Bench comprises 22,078 four-choice questions from 4,913 patients across 15 TCGA projects.<n>We also contribute ESG, a controlled set of 483 quartets where the question text is fixed while the target WSI set is moved, replaced, or removed.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Whole-slide pathology reasoning requires models to integrate gigapixel-scale visual evidence across complete case-linked slides, yet current question-answering benchmarks primarily measure final answer accuracy--a metric vulnerable to linguistic priors and benchmark regularities, and insufficient to establish that predictions are grounded in the supplied tissue. We introduce PathoArgus-Bench, a benchmark and evaluation protocol that explicitly tests the full evidence chain: availability, accessibility, use, and responsiveness. PathoArgus-Bench comprises 22,078 four-choice questions from 4,913 patients across 15 TCGA projects, covering six pathology capabilities across three levels of evidence demand, and operates under a fixed reader budget that retains only a small fraction of the gigapixel context. To further isolate evidence-grounded reasoning, we contribute ESG (Evidence State Quartets), a controlled set of 483 quartets where the question text is fixed while the target WSI set is moved, replaced, or removed, requiring consistent predictions across all states. Evaluating 20 general-purpose, medical, and pathology-specific systems reveals a stark gap: while GPT-5.6 achieves 57.09% overall accuracy and 57.04% on ESG, it correctly completes only 19 of 483 quartets (3.93% QExact), exposing that row-level accuracy does not translate into reliable evidence grounding. We also introduce PathoArgus, a fixed-budget reader that allocates context via question relevance and spatial coverage, attaining 50.39% overall accuracy yet only 1.86% QExact--demonstrating that improved context access alone does not ensure consistent evidence-based prediction. Our benchmark and diagnostics establish that acquiring useful whole-slide context is necessary but far from sufficient, and call for a shift from answer-centric to evidence-grounded evaluation in computational pathology.

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