Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
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Virchow

Pathology whole-slide image foundation model. Published in Nature Medicine on 22 Jul 2024 with pan-cancer specimen-level AUC 0.950.

PaigePaigeUSA
Paige
Levelmodel
Classvision
Parameters632M
Contextnot in the notes
Released22 Jul 2024
Opennessproprietary
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusnot in the notes

Benchmark Results

vendor-reported
Pan-cancer specimen-level detection (Virchow study)domain
As reported in the Virchow papervendor-reported
0.95
00.51

Score in AUROC. Higher is better.

22 Jul 2024 nature.com
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

successor
Virchow to Virchow2: successor, high confidenceVirchowVirchowPaige, Jul 2024Virchow2Virchow2Paige, Aug 2024
PaigeVirchow2 is a child (successor)high confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

Industry Use Cases

Healthcare
Pathology whole-slide imaging

R&D Topics

Computational pathology foundation modelsexemplar

Identity

Developer
Paige
Family
not in the notes
Released
22 Jul 2024 sourcesnotes
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer ViT-H/14 trained with DINOv2 self-supervision on about 1.5M H&E slides from MSKCC
Total parameters
632M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
proprietary
Licence
Proprietary sources
Access routes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Sources

  1. A foundation model for clinical-grade computational pathology and rare cancers detection - Nature Medicine nature.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03141-0

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Virchow", https://aurion.semai.id/models/paige-virchow/, records of October 2026.