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Neighbor-constrained attention for multiple instance learning in whole-slide histopathology.

Sep 2026 · Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing · 0 citations · 27 references
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Neighbor-Constrained MIL (NCMIL), a dual-path MIL framework that combines a Nyströmformer global encoder with Neighbor-Constrained Attention (NCA) and introduces three design choices aimed at spatially structured WSI evidence, achieves the best overall performance among the evaluated baselines.

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