2026

AGE-MIL: Anchor-Guided Evidence Learning for Patient-Level Prediction

AGE-MIL: Anchor-Guided Evidence Learning for Patient-Level Prediction

Patient-level pathology prediction requires integrating sparse diagnostic evidence across multiple whole-slide images, but conventional MIL methods are designed around single-slide supervision. AGE-MIL constructs a patient-level anchor from slide representations to guide evidence retrieval from large patch pools, then models risk through evidence-aware representation learning and progressive accumulation. Across six clinical prediction tasks from two independent prostate cancer cohorts, it consistently outperforms eight state-of-the-art MIL methods.

Recommended citation: Niu J, Chen J, Zhang D, Lu J, Liao Z, Liu X, Zhong H, Crispin-Ortuzar M, Li C, Gao Z*, Cai Y*. AGE-MIL: Anchor-Guided Evidence Learning for Patient-Level Prediction. Accepted to the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2026.
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