2025

SMMILe enables accurate spatial quantification in digital pathology using multiple-instance learning

SMMILe enables accurate spatial quantification in digital pathology using multiple-instance learning

Spatial quantification is essential in computational pathology, yet many multiple-instance learning methods gain slide-level accuracy at the cost of spatial awareness. SMMILe shows that instance-level aggregation can achieve strong spatial quantification without sacrificing whole-slide prediction and introduces a superpatch-based measurable MIL formulation. Across multiple cancer types, tasks, and datasets, it consistently improves spatial localization and slide-level performance.

Recommended citation: Gao Z., Mao, A., Dong, Y. et al. SMMILe enables accurate spatial quantification in digital pathology using multiple-instance learning. Nat Cancer (2025).
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