2025

Learning Heterogeneous Embedding with Prototype-Aware Graph Attention for Whole Slide Image Classification

Learning Heterogeneous Embedding with Prototype-Aware Graph Attention for Whole Slide Image Classification

Whole-slide images contain diagnostic cues spanning local neighborhoods, distant regions, and hierarchical tissue organization, but existing graph and MIL models do not unify these relations effectively. This paper proposes a prototype-aware heterogeneous graph attention network that lets each region interact with diverse heterogeneous neighbors while guiding slide-level representation learning with multilevel prototypes. The framework strengthens whole-slide classification by jointly modeling local, non-local, and hierarchical structure within a single representation space.

Recommended citation: Niu Y, Liu J, Zhan Y, Shi J, Chen J, Zhang D, Li C, Gao Z*. Learning Heterogeneous Embedding with Prototype-Aware Graph Attention for Whole Slide Image Classification[C]. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2025: 2671-2678.
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