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Camilo Nuñez-Fernández¹, Humberto Farias², Mauricio Solar¹

¹Departamento de Informática, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Campus San Joaquin, Santiago 8940897, Chile.

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This study introduces a new Local-Global Feature Fusion Embedding Model to improve histopathological image retrieval. The model enhances feature descriptors by integrating multi-scale information, achieving 99.40% Recall@1 on the Kimia Path24C dataset.

Keywords:

content-based image retrieval feature embedding feature fusion histopathological image transfer learning

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Area of Science:

Digital Pathology
Computer Vision
Medical Image Analysis

Background:

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems are crucial for pathologists, but feature descriptor extraction in histopathological images remains a challenge.
Current deep learning models often miss rich spatial context by focusing on single-scale features.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an improved method for extracting feature descriptors in histopathological images.
To enhance the depth and utility of embeddings for CBIR systems in digital pathology.

Main Methods:

Proposed the Local-Global Feature Fusion Embedding Model, incorporating a multi-scale feature extraction backbone.
Implemented a neck branch for local-global feature fusion and a Generalized Mean (GeM)-based pooling head.
Trained the model on ImageNet-1k and PanNuke datasets using Sub-center ArcFace loss.

Main Results:

The proposed model achieved a Recall@1 of 99.40% on the Kimia Path24C dataset for histopathological image retrieval.
Demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in patch-level retrieval.

Conclusions:

The Local-Global Feature Fusion Embedding Model effectively integrates multi-scale information for enhanced histopathological image analysis.
This approach significantly improves the accuracy of CBIR systems in digital pathology.