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ArticleJournal of pathology informatics2026

Hierarchical vision transformers for Epstein-Barr virus status and histological subtype prediction in Hodgkin lymphoma whole-slide images.

Zsolt Bedőházi, Zsófia Sztupinszki, Ragnar P Kristjánsson, Mikkel Werling, Stephen Hamilton-Dutoit, Kristina L Lauridsen, Lisa Ottander, Trine L Plesner, Peter Hollander, Ingrid Glimelius and 7 more

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Zsolt BedőháziFaculty of Informatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Zsófia SztupinszkiDanish Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ragnar P KristjánssonDanish Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mikkel WerlingDanish Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stephen Hamilton-DutoitDepartment of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Kristina L LauridsenDepartment of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Lisa OttanderDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Trine L PlesnerDepartment of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter HollanderDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Ingrid GlimeliusDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Lene SjöDepartment of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Estrid HøgdallDepartment of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Carsten Utoft NiemannDanish Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Klaus RostgaardDanish Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Péter PollnerHealth Data Science and AI Knowledge Centre, Health Services Management Training Centre, Faculty of Health and Public Administration, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Henrik HjalgrimDanish Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
István CsabaiDepartment of Complex Systems in Physics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

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InterLymph Consortium: interrogating pleiotropy and gene by environment interactions among hematopoietic malignancies.U01CA257679 · NCI · INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RES ON CANCER · PI CLAY-GILMOUR, ALYSSA IONE, HJALGRIM, HENRIK · 2021 to 2025
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NCI NIH HHS U01 CA257679
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Abstract

Accurate stratification of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) by immunologic/histological subtypes and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) status is essential for epidemiological and translational research, yet large-scale testing is impractical and expensive. Digital pathology models that utilize routinely used hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) whole-slide images (WSIs) could close this gap. We developed and validated a hierarchical Vision Transformer pipeline that aggregates cell-, patch-, and region-level context to predict EBV status and the three most prevalent immunological/histological HL subtypes: nodular sclerosis (NS), mixed cellularity (MC), and nodular lymphocyte-predominant HL (NLPHL)-from H&E-stained WSIs, and additionally evaluated a standard attention-based multiple-instance learning (ABMIL) baseline for direct architectural comparison. The development pool comprised 1643 HL cases (1952 WSIs) from 18 Danish hospitals and was used for hospital-preserving 5-fold cross-validation; external validation was performed on an independent hold-out cohort of 458 cases (532 WSIs) from five hold-out hospitals. For subtype prediction, analyses were restricted to the 1560 cases belonging to NS, MC, or NLPHL. On the external EBV cohort (

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Deep learningDigital pathologyEpstein-Barr virusFoundation modelsHistological subtypingHodgkin lymphomaVision TransformerWhole-slide images

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