ProBAG: Prototype-Guided Boundary-Aware Graph Diffusion for Weakly Supervised Histopathology Segmentation

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Weakly supervised semantic segmentation enables histopathology tissue segmentation from image-level annotations, avoiding costly pixel-level labeling by expert pathologists. However, CAM-based methods often localize only highly discriminative regions and remain unreliable near tissue interfaces. We propose ProBAG, a stage-1 pseudo-mask generator that combines dataset-specific visual prototypes with pathology-aligned CONCH text prototypes over multi-scale frozen UNI features. ProBAG introduces two complementary mechanisms: class-wise power recalibration that reshapes inter-class competition while preserving the total foreground activation mass at each pixel, and one-step graph diffusion in which feature affinities are penalized by a late-transformer attention-context discrepancy used as a soft structural boundary cue. The resulting stage-1 pseudo-masks require neither CRF nor an external segmentation model; for complete two-stage comparison, they additionally supervise a downstream Phikon-FPN segmenter. Experiments on BCSS-WSSS and LUAD-HistoSeg show consistent gains over recent WSSS approaches, while ablations indicate that pathology-aligned text semantics provide the largest improvement and graph refinement provides a smaller complementary gain. The code is available at: https://github.com/wterrr/WSSS

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