@article{shao2021transmil,
  title={Transmil: Transformer based correlated multiple instance learning for whole slide image classification},
  author={Shao, Zhuchen and Bian, Hao and Chen, Yang and Wang, Yifeng and Zhang, Jian and Ji, Xiangyang and others},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={34},
  pages={2136--2147},
  year={2021}
}

Abstract: With the development of computational pathology, deep learning methods for Gleason grading through whole slide images (WSIs) have excellent prospects. Since the size of WSIs is extremely large, the image label usually contains only slide-level label or limited pixel-level labels. The current mainstream approach adopts multi-instance learning to predict Gleason grades. However, some methods only considering the slide-level label ignore the limited pixel-level labels containing rich local information. Furthermore, the method of additionally considering the pixel-level labels ignores the inaccuracy of pixel-level labels. To address these problems, we propose a mixed supervision Transformer based on the multiple instance learning framework. The model utilizes both slidelevel label and instance-level labels to achieve more accurate Gleason grading at the slide level. The impact of inaccurate instance-level labels is further reduced by introducing an efficient random masking strategy in the mixed supervision training process. We achieve the state-of-the-art performance on the SICAPv2 dataset, and the visual analysis shows the accurate prediction results of instance level.