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he "Scaling Law for Pathology" project is aimed at exploring the efficacy of scaling laws within the specialized domain of pathology. This study seeks to empirically validate the hypothesis that increasing the volume of training data significantly enhances the performance capabilities of pathology-specific foundation models, particularly those that integrate visual and linguistic understanding. It employs a rigorous experimental design, utilizing state-of-the-art visual-language models that can process both medical images and associated textual information. Through systematic experimentation with progressively larger datasets, it analyzes changes on a variety of downstream tasks in model performance metrics, including precision, recall, F1 score, and area under the ROC curve (AUC-ROC).
