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Subspecialty-specific foundation model for intelligent gastrointestinal pathology.

Lianghui Zhu^1,2, Xitong Ling^1,3, Minxi Ouyang^1,4

¹Institute of Biopharmaceutical and Health Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.

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Digepath, a specialized foundation model for gastrointestinal (GI) pathology, enhances diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. It achieves state-of-the-art results on 32 of 33 tasks, improving real-world diagnostic workflows.

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Area of Science:

Computational pathology
Gastrointestinal (GI) disease research
Artificial intelligence in medicine

Background:

Conventional histopathology for GI diseases lacks objectivity and reproducibility.
Existing computational pathology models are broad but lack deep clinical utility in real-world scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop Digepath, a disease-specialized foundation model for high-impact GI pathology.
To improve the clinical utility and diagnostic accuracy of computational pathology in GI diseases.

Main Methods:

Two-stage iterative optimization: pretraining on 353 million multi-scale patches from 210,043 H&E slides.
Fine-tuning on 471,443 expert-annotated regions, balancing tumor and non-tumor samples.
Integration into an agent-based clinical reasoning framework for end-to-end diagnostic workflows.

Main Results:

Digepath achieved state-of-the-art performance on 32 out of 33 systematic downstream tasks in GI pathology.
Demonstrated robust generalization across diverse GI pathology tasks, including diagnosis, molecular profiling, and survival prognosis.
Successfully integrated into a clinical reasoning framework, supporting intelligent diagnostic workflows.

Conclusions:

Digepath represents a significant advancement in disease-specialized foundation models for GI pathology.
The model shows promise for real-world deployment, enhancing diagnostic capabilities and clinical workflows.
Specialized models can overcome limitations of broad benchmarks, offering deeper clinical utility.