Abstract:Uterine diseases represent an important category of gynecologic pathology and require accurate histopathological assessment for diagnosis and treatment planning. Whole-slide images (WSI) have enabled the digital transformation of pathology workflows and provided new opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI) in computational pathology. In particular, multimodal models that jointly analyze histopathology images and pathology reports have shown promising potential for automated pathology report generation and AI-assisted diagnosis. However, the development of such systems remains limited by the scarcity of datasets that pair whole-slide images with clinically meaningful pathology reports. Instead, existing pathology datasets focus on patch- or slide-level annotations of a single endpoint (e.g., disease class), which do not fully capture the rich information in full clinical diagnostic workflow reports. Here, we introduce TUM-Uteria, a uterine pathology dataset comprising WSIs paired with diagnostic pathology reports at both the case and slide levels, collected from a tertiary medical center. The dataset contains 216 clinical cases, comprising 455 slide-level WSI-report pairs. The dataset underwent a structured multi-stage validation procedure involving board-certified pathologists to ensure reliable annotations. TUM-Uteria supports research in computational pathology, including whole-slide image analysis, multimodal learning, and automated pathology report generation.
Abstract:Recent AI navigation approaches aim to improve Whole-Slide Image (WSI) diagnosis by modeling spatial exploration and selecting diagnostically relevant regions, yet most operate at a single fixed magnification or rely on predefined magnification traversal. In clinical practice, pathologists examine slides across multiple magnifications and selectively inspect only necessary scales, dynamically integrating global and cellular evidence in a sequential manner. This mismatch prevents existing methods from modeling cross-magnification interactions and adaptive magnification selection inherent to real diagnostic workflows. To these, we propose a clinically consistent Multi-Magnification WSI Navigation Agent (MMNavAgent) that explicitly models multi magnification interaction and adaptive magnification selection. Specifically, we introduce a Cross-Magnification navigation Tool (CMT) that aggregates contextual information from adjacent magnifications to enhance discriminative representations along the navigation path. We further introduce a Magnification Selection Tool (MST) that leverages memory-driven reasoning within the agent framework to enable interactive and adaptive magnification selection, mimicking the sequential decision process of pathologists. Extensive experiments on a public dataset demonstrate improved diagnostic performance, with 1.45% gain of AUC and 2.93% gain of BACC over a non-agent baseline. Code will be public upon acceptance.