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ArticleBiomedical engineering online2025

A hybrid multi-instance learning-based identification of gastric adenocarcinoma differentiation on whole-slide images.

Mudan Zhang, Xinhuan Sun, Wuchao Li, Yin Cao, Chen Liu, Guilan Tu, Jian Wang, Rongpin Wang

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Mudan Zhang *Department of Radiology, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medical Image Analysis and Precision Diagnosis, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, No. 83 Zhongshan East Road, Nan Ming District, Guiyang, 550002, Guizhou, China.
Xinhuan Sun *Department of Radiology, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medical Image Analysis and Precision Diagnosis, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, No. 83 Zhongshan East Road, Nan Ming District, Guiyang, 550002, Guizhou, China.
Wuchao LiDepartment of Radiology, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medical Image Analysis and Precision Diagnosis, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, No. 83 Zhongshan East Road, Nan Ming District, Guiyang, 550002, Guizhou, China.
Yin CaoDepartment of pathology, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, Guizhou province, Guiyang, 550002, China.
Chen LiuDepartment of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), No. 30, Gao Tan Yan Street, Chongqing, 400038, China.
Guilan TuLaboratory department, Guizhou Provincial Center for Clinical Laboratory, Guiyang, 550002, Guizhou, China.
Jian WangDepartment of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), No. 30, Gao Tan Yan Street, Chongqing, 400038, China. wangiian@aifmri.com.
Rongpin WangDepartment of Radiology, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medical Image Analysis and Precision Diagnosis, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, No. 83 Zhongshan East Road, Nan Ming District, Guiyang, 550002, Guizhou, China. wangrongpin@126.com.

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Guizhou Province's "Hundred Levels" plan for high-level innovative talents GCC [2022] 041-1The Guiyang Science and Technology Project ZKXM[2020]4the Provincial Health Commission funding of Commission's Science and Technology gzwkj2024-210
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objectiveTo investigate the potential of a hybrid multi-instance learning model (TGMIL) combining Transformer and graph attention networks for classifying gastric adenocarcinoma differentiation on whole-slide images (WSIs) without manual annotation. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A hybrid multi-instance learning model is proposed based on the Transformer and the graph attention network, called TGMIL, to classify the differentiation of gastric adenocarcinoma. A total of 613 WSIs from patients with gastric adenocarcinoma were retrospectively collected from two different hospitals. According to the differentiation of gastric adenocarcinoma, the data were divided into four groups: normal group (n = 254), well differentiation group (n = 166), moderately differentiation group (n = 75), and poorly differentiation group (n = 118). The gold standard of differentiation classification was blindly established by two gastrointestinal pathologists. The WSIs were randomly split into a training dataset consisting of 494 images and a testing dataset consisting of 119 images. Within the training set, the WSI count of the normal, well, moderately, and poorly differential groups was 203, 131, 62, and 98 individuals, respectively. Within the test set, the corresponding WSI count was 51, 35, 13, and 20 individuals.

resultsThe TGMIL model developed for the differential prediction task exhibited remarkable efficiency when considering sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the curve (AUC) values. We also conducted a comparative analysis to assess the efficiency of five other models, namely MIL, CLAM_SB, CLAM_MB, DSMIL, and TransMIL, in classifying the differentiation of gastric cancer. The TGMIL model achieved a sensitivity of 73.33% and a specificity of 91.11%, with an AUC value of 0.86.

conclusionsThe hybrid multi-instance learning model TGMIL could accurately classify the differentiation of gastric adenocarcinoma using WSI without the need for labor-intensive and time-consuming manual annotations, which will improve the efficiency and objectivity of diagnosis.

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AdenocarcinomaImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMachine LearningStomach NeoplasmsHumansDifferentiationGastric adenocarcinomaMulti-instance learningTGMILWhole-slide images

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