Wen-Yang Li

From UNI2-h to ConvNeXt-T: Lightweight Nuclei Instance Segmentation via Knowledge Distillation

Nuclei instance segmentation is a core task in digital pathology, yet high-accuracy models rely on large vision transformer (ViT) encoders whose inference speed cannot meet real-time clinical demands. We propose a lightweight scheme that distills the UNI2-h pathology foundation model into a ConvNeXt-Tiny student (Ours-...