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Evaluating Foundation Models with Pathological Concept Learning for Kidney Cancer

Authors

Gao, S.,Wang, S.,Gao, Y.,Wang, B.,Zhuang, X.,Warren, A.,Stewart, G.,Jones, J.,Crispin-Ortuzar, M.

Affiliations (1)

  • University of Cambridge

Abstract

To evaluate the translational capabilities of foundation models, we develop a pathological concept learning approach focused on kidney cancer. By leveraging TNM staging guidelines and pathology reports, we build comprehensive pathological concepts for kidney cancer. Then, we extract deep features from whole slide images using foundation models, construct pathological graphs to capture spatial correlations, and trained graph neural networks to identify these concepts. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in kidney cancer survival analysis, highlighting its explainability and fairness in identifying low- and high-risk patients. The source code has been released by https://github.com/shangqigao/RadioPath.

Topics

oncology

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