Uncertainty-based Model Acceleration for Cancer Classification in Whole-Slide Images

Whole-slide image classification is often slowed by the need to process many high-magnification patches across a gigapixel slide. This paper proposes an uncertainty-based acceleration strategy that mimics pathologists by sending only suspicious high-uncertainty regions to expensive high-resolution analysis while handling most regions at low magnification. The framework reduces inference cost and deployment burden without sacrificing the accuracy needed for computational pathology applications.
Recommended citation: Gao Z, Mao A, Wu J, et al. Uncertainty-based Model Acceleration for Cancer Classification in Whole-Slide Images[C]//2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE, 2022: 1534-1538.
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