FOCUS: A Subspecialty Foundation Model for Intraoperative Central Nervous System Pathology

arXiv:2610.16914 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-10-12 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-12

Updated: 2026-10-12

Code: https://github.com/mahmoodlab/HEST

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Virchow2: Scaling Self-Supervised Mixed Magnification Models in Pathology
• PathBench: A comprehensive comparison benchmark for pathology foundation models towards precision oncology
• Accelerating Data Processing and Benchmarking of AI Models for Pathology
• Molecular-driven Foundation Model for Oncologic Pathology
• DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
• Phikon-v2, A large and public feature extractor for biomarker prediction

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