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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) reveals spatial heterogeneity of gene expression, yet its resolution is limited by current platforms. Recent methods enhance resolution via H&E-stained histology, but three major challenges persist: (1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Xuepeng Liu , Zheng Jiang , Pinan Zhu , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

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) 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

The rapid advancement of spatial transcriptomics (ST), i.e., spatial gene expressions, has made it possible to measure gene expression within original tissue, enabling us to discover molecular mechanisms. However, current ST platforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xiaofei Wang , Stephen Price , Chao Li

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) captures gene expression within distinct regions (i.e., windows) of a tissue slide. Traditional supervised learning frameworks applied to model ST are constrained to predicting expression from slide image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yan Yang , Md Zakir Hossain , Xuesong Li , Shafin Rahman , Eric Stone

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) provides spatially-resolved gene expression, offering crucial insights into tissue architecture and complex diseases. However, its prohibitive cost limits widespread adoption, leading to significant attention on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Taejin Jeong , Joohyeok Kim , Jinyeong Kim , Chanyoung Kim , Seong Jae Hwang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) profiles gene expression across a tissue section while preserving the spatial coordinates. Because current ST technologies typically profile two-dimensional tissue slices, integrating and aligning slices from…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-20 Yaqi Wu , Jingfeng Wang , Xin Maizie Zhou , Yanxiang Zhao , Zixuan Cang

The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers new opportunities to explore the gene expression patterns within the spatial microenvironment. Current research integrates pathological images to infer gene expression, addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Junchao Zhu , Ruining Deng , Tianyuan Yao , Juming Xiong , Chongyu Qu , Junlin Guo , Siqi Lu , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Mengmeng Yin , Yu Wang , Shilin Zhao , Yaohong Wang , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Recent advancements in foundation models, typically trained with self-supervised learning on large-scale and diverse datasets, have shown great potential in medical image analysis. However, due to the significant spatial heterogeneity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Lingxiao Luo , Xuanzhong Chen , Bingda Tang , Xinsheng Chen , Rong Han , Chengpeng Hu , Yujiang Li , Ting Chen

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies can be used to align transcriptomes with histopathological morphology, presenting exciting new opportunities for biomolecular discovery. Using ST data, we construct a novel framework, GeneFlow, to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Mengbo Wang , Shourya Verma , Aditya Malusare , Luopin Wang , Yiyang Lu , Vaneet Aggarwal , Mario Sola , Ananth Grama , Nadia Atallah Lanman

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) is a technology that measures gene expression profiles within tissue sections while retaining spatial context. It reveals localized gene expression patterns and tissue heterogeneity, both of which are essential…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Wei Zhang , Jiajun Chu , Xinci Liu , Chen Tong , Xinyue Li

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) reveals the spatial distribution of gene expression in tissues, offering critical insights into biological processes and disease mechanisms. However, the high cost, limited coverage, and technical complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yi Niu , Jiashuai Liu , Yingkang Zhan , Jiangbo Shi , Di Zhang , Marika Reinius , Ines Machado , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar , Jialun Wu , Chen Li , Zeyu Gao

Whole slide images (WSIs) enable weakly supervised prognostic modeling via multiple instance learning (MIL). Spatial transcriptomics (ST) preserves in situ gene expression, providing a spatial molecular context that complements morphology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lihe Liu , Xiaoxi Pan , Yinyin Yuan , Lulu Shang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a groundbreaking genomic technology that enables spatial localization analysis of gene expression within tissue sections. However, it is significantly limited by high costs and sparse spatial resolution. An…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Zhiceng Shi , Shuailin Xue , Fangfang Zhu , Wenwen Min

While spatial transcriptomics (ST) has advanced our understanding of gene expression in tissue context, its high experimental cost limits its large-scale application. Predicting ST from pathology images is a promising, cost-effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhiceng Shi , Changmiao Wang , Jun Wan , Wenwen Min

Spatial transcriptomics enables spatial gene expression profiling, motivating computational models that capture spatially conditioned regulatory relationships. We introduce SAGE-FM, a lightweight spatial transcriptomics foundation model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xianghao Zhan , Jingyu Xu , Yuanning Zheng , Zinaida Good , Olivier Gevaert

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is an emerging technology that enables medical computer vision scientists to automatically interpret the molecular profiles underlying morphological features. Currently, however, most deep learning-based ST…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Junchao Zhu , Ruining Deng , Tianyuan Yao , Juming Xiong , Chongyu Qu , Junlin Guo , Siqi Lu , Mengmeng Yin , Yu Wang , Shilin Zhao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Deep learning-based nuclei segmentation and classification in pathology images typically rely on large-scale pixel-level manual annotations, which are costly and difficult to obtain across diverse tissues and staining conditions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise , Haruka Hirose , Yasuhiro Kojima

Spatial transcriptomics reveals gene expression patterns within tissue context, enabling precision oncology applications such as treatment response prediction, but its high cost and technical complexity limit clinical adoption. Predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Won June Cho , Hongjun Yoon , Daeky Jeong , Hyeongyeol Lim , Yosep Chong

The spatial location of cells within tissues and organs is crucial for the manifestation of their specific functions.Spatial transcriptomics technology enables comprehensive measurement of the gene expression patterns in tissues while…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-12 Shuailin Xue , Fangfang Zhu , Changmiao Wang , Wenwen Min