Weakly Supervised Instance-Level Gleason Pattern Estimation Using Primary and Secondary Labels

arXiv:2607.23594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In prostate cancer histopathology, the Gleason Score is determined by the most frequent (Primary) and second most frequent (Secondary) Gleason patterns within a whole-slide image. Although these slide-level labels are routinely available in clinical practice, instance-level Gleason annotations are rarely provided, making patch-level learning challenging. We propose a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) framework that estimates instance-level Gleason patterns from slide-level Primary and Secondary labels. The proposed method formulates instance-level learning according to the clinical definition of the Gleason Score by aggregating instance predictions into class counts and explicitly modeling the Primary pattern, Secondary pattern, and their dominance. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed formulation enables effective instance-level learning and outperforms existing MIL approaches on the SICAP-MIL dataset.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-07-28