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Microsoft Research's Prov-GigaPath Achieves Breakthroughs in Digital Pathology, Published in Nature

May 22, 2024, 04:00 PM

Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Providence and the University of Washington, has developed the first whole-slide digital pathology foundation model, Prov-GigaPath. This model is pre-trained on large-scale real-world data, including over 1.3 billion images from 30,000 patients and 170,000 whole slides. The model has achieved state-of-the-art performance on cancer subtyping, gene mutation prediction, and language tasks, showing significant improvements in 12 out of 18 imaging tasks. The work, published in Nature, highlights the benefits of scaling in digital pathology and aims to advance clinical research and precision immunotherapy.