The present application relates to a
pathological whole slice image classification method based on multi-
branch independent
mask and Dirichlet evidence fusion, belonging to the
cross field of biological information and
artificial intelligence. In view of the defects of traditional multi-instance learning method in weakly supervised classification task of
pathological whole slice image, such as excessive
attention concentration and static fusion, the present application sets dynamic
mask parameters through multi-
branch independent setting, forces different branches to pay attention to different
pathological regions, and solves the problem of insufficient feature diversity caused by
attention concentration; combining the confidence and uncertainty of
Dirichlet distribution quantization
branch prediction, the branch fusion weight is dynamically adjusted based on evidence theory, and the fusion robustness of multi-branch prediction result is improved. The experiment is verified on the public pathological
data set such as CAMELYON-16, compared with the MIL method, the present application improves the AUC index by 1.1-2.4%, and significantly enhances the accuracy and generalization ability of pathological WSI classification.