摘要
arXiv:2607.27835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate cell segmentation and classification are foundational to digital pathology, enabling quantitative tissue analysis for diagnosis and treatment planning. Encoder-decoder architectures that fuse multi-scale features through skip connections have become the dominant paradigm for this task, yet standard direct skip connections treat every spatial location equally, which leads to redundant and potentially conflicting information reaching the decoder. To overcome this problem, various gating mechanisms have been introduced, but most of them operate solely on filtering encoder information, neglecting the benefit of global contextual information from the decoder. This study proposes replacing conventional skip connections in a CellViT-based model with a novel Spatial Attention Fusion (SAF) Gating module.