arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-14
Demonstration of the common dual-channel feature decoupling characteristic of front-door mediation causal inference methods in whole-slice image classification
Zhirui Zhang, Tianhang Nan, Yong Ding, Zhuolun Song, Dayu Hu, Xiaoyu Cui
Causal inference using front door intervention and multi-instance learning (MIL) has advanced the analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSI) in digital pathology. These methods adjust feature distributions of subtle evidence sub-images to correctly associate them with WSI-level diagnos…