Examining Batch Effect in Histopathology as a Distributionally Robust Optimization Problem
S. N. Hari, J. Nyman, N. Mehta, F. Dietlein, J. Rosenthal, B. Jiang, A. Chowdhury, H. Elmarakeby, E. Sengupta, R. Umeton, E. M. Van Allen
This paper shows that using abstention in a patch-based classifier improves performance in histopathology tasks while reducing reliance on spurious features.
bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2021 · PreprintCancer Biology