arxivcs.CVcs.LG2026-07-11
TVT-PAPD: Pathology-Aware Prototype Distillation for Self-Supervised Whole Slide Image Classification
Ramesh Naidu Laveti, Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair, T K Srikanth
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for learning transferable representations from large-scale unlabeled whole slide images (WSIs). However, existing SSL methods primarily learn generic visual features and often fail to explicitly capture pathology…