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A novel contrastive learning approach utilizing pathological prior knowledge for improved classification of histological types in lung squamous cell carcinoma

  • By

  • Mingci Huang

  • Weijin Xiao

  • Gen Lin

  • Chao Li

  • Haipeng Xu

  • Yunjian Huang

  • Shengjia Chen

  • Chuanben Chen

  • Yang Sun

  • Qiaofeng Zhong

  • December 17, 2025

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    Histopathological slide analysis is essential for cancer diagnosis, but traditional methods struggle with ultra-high-resolution whole slide images.

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    Weakly supervised learning, particularly Multiple Instance Learning, helps reduce annotation costs but has limitations in analyzing fine-grained tissue structures.

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    Self-supervised learning is emerging as a promising approach for training feature extractors in pathological image analysis without relying on labeled data.

  • 4

    Contrastive self-supervised learning optimizes sample features by clustering similar representations but faces challenges with adjacent patches in WSIs.

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    The proposed Sample-Positive method integrates pathological prior knowledge to improve classification accuracy by addressing limitations of traditional contrastive learning.

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A novel contrastive learning approach utilizing pathological prior knowledge for improved classification of histological types in lung squamous cell carcinoma

  • by Mingci Huang, Weijin Xiao, Gen Lin, Chao Li, Haipeng Xu, Yunjian Huang, Shengjia Chen, Chuanben Chen, Yang Sun, Qiaofeng Zhong

  • December 17, 2025

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