DINOv3-MIL: Per-Kidney Multi-Label Tumour and Cyst Detection from Foundation-Model Patch Tokens on KiTS23
Quick Answer
This paper shows that DINOv3-MIL utilizes gated attention multiple instance learning for renal tumor and cyst detection, achieving AUROC scores of 0.74 and 0.80 respectively on the KiTS23 dataset.
Quick Take
This method outperforms traditional aggregators, enhancing interpretability while managing the trade-off in performance at scale.
Key Points
- Attention MIL achieves highest AUROC for tumors at 0.74 and cysts at 0.80.
- Prototype head shows poor transferability for cyst detection with AUROC of 0.51.
- Gated attention enhances attention scores by 7.5-9.8x over chance.
- Study involves 966 kidneys with 97 used for testing.
- Results accepted for presentation at MIUA 2026.
Paper Resources
Source Excerpt
Foundation vision models trained on natural images transfer to medical tasks without domain pre-training, but volumetric classification requires aggregating tens of thousands of patch tokens per study, and the aggregator constrains how the resulting model can be interpreted. We compare three aggregators on identical frozen DINOv3 ViT-H/16+ features for renal tumour/cyst detection on KiTS23 (966 kidneys; n=97 test): a CLS-token linear probe, gated attention multiple instance learning (MIL) over 5
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