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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: Proc IEEE Comput Soc Conf Comput Vis Pattern Recognit. 2023 Aug 22;2023:19798–19808. doi: 10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.01896

Figure 2. HiDisc Overview.

Figure 2.

Motivated by the patient-slide-patch data hierarchy of clinical biomedical microscopy, HiDisc defines a patient, slide, and patch discriminative learning objective to improve visual representations. Because WSI and microscopy data are inherently hierarchical, defining a unified hierarchical loss function does not require additional annotations or supervision. Positive patch pairs are defined based on a common ancestry in the data hierarchy. A major advantage of HiDisc is the ability to define positive pairs without the need to sample from or learn a set of strong image augmentations, such as random erasing, shears, color inversion, etc. Because each field-of-view in a WSI is a different view of a patient’s underlying cancer diagnosis, HiDisc implicitly learns image features that predict that diagnosis.