
Overview
H optimus 1 (H1) is a state of the art foundation model for computational pathology that turns H&E whole-slide images (WSIs) into high fidelity, task agnostic embeddings, boosting the performance of downstream models in routine and advanced histology workflows, including diagnostics, patient stratification, and prediction of clinical outcomes.
H1 embeddings preserve both cellular detail and tissue level context, making them useful for downstream classifiers and survival models, or as a universal feature backbone in your own pipelines. H1 delivers strong slide level and tile level performance, as well as enhancements to routine analysis like cell counting, typing, and segmentation.
H1 provides scalable, secure embedding generation and model assisted inference that can be integrated into discovery, translational, and clinical research pipelines with enterprise governance. H1 can extract powerful features from histology images for various downstream applications, such as mutation prediction, survival analysis, or tissue classification.
In comparative studies, H1's performance was shown to be superior or highly competitive against other leading pathology foundation models, including UNI2, Virchow2, and Prov GigaPath. Its strong zero shot and few shot learning capabilities underscore the quality of its learned feature representations, allowing it to achieve high accuracy on new tasks with minimal task specific fine tuning. This makes it a powerful and efficient tool for accelerating research and discovery in computational pathology.
Highlights
- H-optimus-1 is a Vision Transformer (ViT) model with 1.1 billion parameters. The ViT architecture processes images by dividing them into a sequence of fixed-size patches, which are then linearly embedded and fed into a standard Transformer encoder. This approach allows the model to capture complex, long-range dependencies across the entire image, making it exceptionally well-suited for the high-resolution and intricate patterns found in digital pathology slides.
- The model was pre-trained on a vast, proprietary dataset of histology imagery, curated to ensure unprecedented scale and diversity, containing billions of image patches sampled from over one million H&E-stained slides. The data represents more than 800,000 unique patients from over 4,000 clinical centers, providing a broad and varied foundation for the model to learn from. The dataset covers over 50 different organ systems, encompassing a wide spectrum of both healthy and diseased tissues.
- H-optimus-1 has been rigorously evaluated and has demonstrated state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across 13 distinct downstream tasks on 15 public and private datasets [H1 Benchmarks](https://www.bioptimus.com/news/bioptimus-launches-h-optimus-1), including the comprehensive HEST benchmark [HEST benchmark ](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/HEST?tab=readme-ov-file) as of 02/27/2024.
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H-optimus-1 expects as input 224x224 pixels histology tile images of 0.5 microns per pixel resolution.
- Limitations for input type
- H-optimus-1 is expected to perform less well on images at other resolutions (e.g. 0.25 or 1.0 MPP).
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- image/*, application/x-image
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