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Recently, histopathology vision-language foundation models (VLMs) have gained popularity due to their enhanced performance and generalizability across different downstream tasks. However, most existing histopathology benchmarks are either…

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Foundation models are trained on massive amounts of data to distinguish complex patterns and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks with minimal computational resources. Here, we develop a foundation model for prostate cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Joona Pohjonen , Abderrahim-Oussama Batouche , Antti Rannikko , Kevin Sandeman , Andrew Erickson , Esa Pitkanen , Tuomas Mirtti

Spatial Transcriptomics is a novel technology that aligns histology images with spatially resolved gene expression profiles. Although groundbreaking, it struggles with gene capture yielding high corruption in acquired data. Given potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Gabriel Mejia , Daniela Ruiz , Paula Cárdenas , Leonardo Manrique , Daniela Vega , Pablo Arbeláez

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into…

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies have revolutionized the study of gene expression patterns in tissues by providing multimodality data in transcriptomic, spatial, and morphological, offering opportunities for understanding tissue…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zelin Zang , Liangyu Li , Yongjie Xu , Chenrui Duan , Kai Wang , Yang You , Yi Sun , Stan Z. Li

Automated semantic segmentation of whole-slide images (WSIs) stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) is essential for large-scale artificial intelligence-based biomarker analysis in breast cancer. However, existing public datasets for…

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has revolutionised transcriptomics analysis by preserving tissue architecture, allowing researchers to study gene expression in its native spatial context. However, despite its potential, ST still faces…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-19 Anthony Baptista , Rosamond Nuamah , Ciro Chiappini , Anita Grigoriadis

Cellular identity and function are linked to both their intrinsic genomic makeup and extrinsic spatial context within the tissue microenvironment. Spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers an unprecedented opportunity to study this, providing in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Rui Yan , Xiaohan Xing , Xun Wang , Zixia Zhou , Md Tauhidul Islam , Lei Xing

Spatial Transcriptomics is a groundbreaking technology that integrates histology images with spatially resolved gene expression profiles. Among the various Spatial Transcriptomics techniques available, Visium has emerged as the most widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Daniela Ruiz , Paula Cárdenas , Leonardo Manrique , Daniela Vega , Gabriel M. Mejia , Pablo Arbeláez

Pathology foundation models learn morphological representations through self-supervised pretraining on large-scale whole-slide images, yet they do not explicitly capture the underlying molecular state of the tissue. Spatial transcriptomics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minsoo Lee , Jonghyun Kim , Juseung Yun , Sunwoo Yu , Jongseong Jang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) bridges gene expression and tissue morphology but faces clinical adoption barriers due to technical complexity and prohibitive costs. While computational methods predict gene expression from H&E-stained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ziqiao Weng , Yaoyu Fang , Jiahe Qian , Xinkun Wang , Lee AD Cooper , Weidong Cai , Bo Zhou

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) profiles thousands of gene expression values at discrete spots with precise coordinates on tissue sections, preserving spatial context essential for clinical and pathological studies. With rising sequencing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yishun Zhu , Jiaxin Qi , Jian Wang , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

The development of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics has revolutionized our capacity to investigate cellular properties, functions, and interactions in both cellular and spatial contexts. However, the analysis of single-cell and…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-09 Shuang Ge , Shuqing Sun , Huan Xu , Qiang Cheng , Zhixiang Ren

Cancer pathological analysis requires modeling tumor heterogeneity across multiple modalities, primarily through transcriptomics and whole slide imaging (WSI), along with their spatial relations. On one hand, bulk transcriptomics and WSI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jingkun Yu , Guangkai Shang , Changtao Li , Xun Gong , Tianrui Li , Yazhou He , Zhipeng Luo

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) maps gene expression within tissue at individual spots, making it a valuable resource for multimodal representation learning. Additionally, ST inherently contains rich hierarchical information both across and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xulin Chen , Junzhou Huang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a promising technique that characterizes the spatial gene profiling patterns within the tissue context. Comprehensive ST analysis depends on consecutive slices for 3D spatial insights, whereas the missing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 NingFeng Que , Xiaofei Wang , Jingjing Chen , Yixuan Jiang , Chao Li

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) enables the measurement of gene expression while preserving spatial information, offering critical insights into tissue architecture and disease pathology. Recent developments have explored the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hai Dang Nguyen , Nguyen Dang Huy Pham , The Minh Duc Nguyen , Dac Thai Nguyen , Hang Thi Nguyen , Duong M. Nguyen

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) provides spatially resolved gene expression profiles within intact tissue architecture, enabling molecular analysis in histological context. However, the high cost, limited throughput, and restricted data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yaoyu Fang , Jiahe Qian , Xinkun Wang , Lee A. Cooper , Bo Zhou

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been successful in building patch embeddings of small histology images (e.g., 224x224 pixels), but scaling these models to learn slide embeddings from the entirety of giga-pixel whole-slide images (WSIs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Guillaume Jaume , Lukas Oldenburg , Anurag Vaidya , Richard J. Chen , Drew F. K. Williamson , Thomas Peeters , Andrew H. Song , Faisal Mahmood

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) has evolved rapidly through various technologies, enabling scientists to investigate both morphological contexts and gene expression profiling at single-cell resolution in parallel. SRT data are…