2023

MG-trans: Multi-scale graph transformer with information bottleneck for whole slide image classification

MG-trans: Multi-scale graph transformer with information bottleneck for whole slide image classification

Existing MIL pipelines for whole-slide image classification often rely on many high-magnification patches, creating redundant inputs while underusing spatial structure. MG-Trans addresses this by combining patch anchoring, dynamic structure learning, and a multi-scale information bottleneck within a graph-transformer framework. The resulting model captures fine-grained morphology more efficiently and strengthens discriminative whole-slide representations.

Recommended citation: Shi J, Tang L, Gao Z, Li Y, Wang C, Gong T, Li C, Fu H. MG-trans: Multi-scale graph transformer with information bottleneck for whole slide image classification[J]. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42(12): 3871-3883.
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