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Multiple instance learning (MIL) provides a robust framework for analyzing whole slide images with slide-level labels at gigapixel resolution. However, existing MIL models typically focus on modeling the relationships between instances while neglecting the variability across the channel dimensions of instances, which prevents the model from fully capturing critical information in the channel dimension.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To address this issue, we propose a plug-and-play module called Multi-scale Channel Attention Block (MCAB), which models the interdependencies between channels by leveraging local features with different receptive fields. By alternately stacking four layers of Transformer and MCAB, we designed a channel attention-based MIL model (CAMIL) capable of simultaneously modeling both inter-instance relationships and intra-channel dependencies. 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