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Normal Guidance

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Multiple Instance Learning (MIL)Attention-based MIL 3D Medical Image Classification

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4arXiv · cs.LG·May 27, 2026·source ↗

Normal Guidance: Bell-Curve Regularization for Attention-Based MIL in 3D Medical Imaging

This paper addresses weakly supervised classification of 3D medical images where only volume-level binary labels are available. The authors identify that a simple center-focused baseline outperforms attention-based and transformer-based multiple instance learning (MIL) at slice-level classification across brain, thoracic, and abdominal CT datasets. They propose Normal Guidance, a regularization technique that constrains learned attention distributions to follow a bell-shaped curve, achieving superior slice-level localization over state-of-the-art MIL methods across datasets totaling over 4 million 2D slices.

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