Turning Pre-Trained Vision Transformers into End-to-End Histopathology Whole Slide Image Models for Survival Prediction
Conventional whole slide image (WSI) analysis pipelines follow a two-stage process. First, an image encoder, such as a vision transformer (ViT), is used to perform batched offline feature extraction on a series of tiles cropped from the WSI. Second, a multiple instance learning (MIL) model is traine