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Pathology foundation models benchmarked for breast cancer survival prediction

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A new study benchmarks pathology foundation models (PFMs) for predicting breast cancer survival using histopathology images. The research evaluated several PFMs across three independent patient cohorts, finding that H-optimus-1 performed best. Second-generation PFMs generally outperformed earlier ones, though performance gains are becoming modest. Notably, a smaller distilled model, H0-mini, achieved better results than its larger counterpart, H-optimus-0, while being significantly more efficient. AI

IMPACT Provides guidance on selecting efficient pathology foundation models for clinical deployment in cancer survival prediction.

RANK_REASON Academic paper benchmarking AI models for a specific medical task.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Constance Boissin, Johan Vallon-Christersson, David A. Clifton, Mattias Rantalainen ·

    Benchmarking Pathology Foundation Models for Breast Cancer Survival Prediction

    arXiv:2604.24679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have recently emerged as powerful pretrained encoders for computational pathology, enabling transfer learning across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, systematic comparisons of these model…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Mattias Rantalainen ·

    Benchmarking Pathology Foundation Models for Breast Cancer Survival Prediction

    Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have recently emerged as powerful pretrained encoders for computational pathology, enabling transfer learning across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, systematic comparisons of these models for clinically meaningful prediction problems …

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