2021

Instance-based vision transformer for subtyping of papillary renal cell carcinoma in histopathological image

Instance-based vision transformer for subtyping of papillary renal cell carcinoma in histopathological image

Papillary renal cell carcinoma subtyping requires subtle cellular and cell-layer patterns that conventional CNNs struggle to capture in large histopathological images. This paper proposes an instance-based vision transformer that focuses on top informative nuclei-centered instances and models their relationships with positional and grade-aware embeddings. The design learns finer morphological representations and improves performance on fine-grained pRCC subtyping.

Recommended citation: Gao Z, Hong B, Zhang X, et al. Instance-based vision transformer for subtyping of papillary renal cell carcinoma in histopathological image[C]//International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021: 299-308.
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