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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

Predicting genetic perturbations enables the identification of potentially crucial genes prior to wet-lab experiments, significantly improving overall experimental efficiency. Since genes are the foundation of cellular life, building gene…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-09 Changxi Chi , Jun Xia , Jingbo Zhou , Jiabei Cheng , Chang Yu , Stan Z. Li

We propose a hierarchical graph neural network (GNN) model that learns how to cluster a set of images into an unknown number of identities using a training set of images annotated with labels belonging to a disjoint set of identities. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yifan Xing , Tong He , Tianjun Xiao , Yongxin Wang , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia , David Wipf , Zheng Zhang , Stefano Soatto

Spatial transcriptomics enables genome-wide expression analysis within native tissue context, yet identifying spatial domains remains challenging due to complex gene-spatial interactions. Existing methods typically process spatial and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jianping Mei , Siqi Ai , Ye Yuan

This paper aims to predict gene expression from a histology slide image precisely. Such a slide image has a large resolution and sparsely distributed textures. These obstruct extracting and interpreting discriminative features from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yan Yang , LiYuan Pan , Liu Liu , Eric A Stone

Accurately predicting stock market movements remains a formidable challenge due to the inherent volatility and complex interdependencies among stocks. Although multi-scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) hold potential for modeling these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaosha Xue , Peibo Duan , Zhipeng Liu , Qi Chu , Changsheng Zhang , Bin zhang

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

Advances in spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies enable systematic molecular characterization of tumor microenvironment, tumor gradients and gene regulatory networks. Cancer progression is known to vary along pathological gradients,…

The task of spatial clustering of transcriptomics data is of paramount importance. It enables the classification of tissue samples into diverse subpopulations of cells, which, in turn, facilitates the analysis of the biological functions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mehrad Soltani , Luis Rueda

A graph neural network (GNN) for image understanding based on multiple cues is proposed in this paper. Compared to traditional feature and decision fusion approaches that neglect the fact that features can interact and exchange information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Xin Guo , Luisa F. Polania , Bin Zhu , Charles Boncelet , Kenneth E. Barner

Histopathological analysis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) has seen a surge in the utilization of deep learning methods, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, CNNs often fall short in capturing the intricate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Siemen Brussee , Giorgio Buzzanca , Anne M. R. Schrader , Jesper Kers

Graph representation learning based on graph neural networks (GNNs) can greatly improve the performance of downstream tasks, such as node and graph classification. However, the general GNN models do not aggregate node information in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Fei Ding , Xiaohong Zhang , Justin Sybrandt , Ilya Safro

Graph-based methods have been extensively applied to whole-slide histopathology image (WSI) analysis due to the advantage of modeling the spatial relationships among different entities. However, most of the existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsai Hor Chan , Fernando Julio Cendra , Lan Ma , Guosheng Yin , Lequan Yu

To enhance the precision of cancer prognosis, recent research has increasingly focused on multimodal survival methods by integrating genomic data and histology images. However, current approaches overlook the fact that the proteome serves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Junjie Zhou , Bao Xue , Meiling Wang , Wei Shao , Daoqiang Zhang

Heterogeneous molecular entities and their interactions, commonly depicted as a network, are crucial for advancing our systems-level understanding of biology. With recent advancements in high-throughput data generation and a significant…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Kishan KC , Rui Li , Paribesh Regmi , Anne R. Haake

We propose a Hierarchical Multi-scale Knowledge-aware Graph Network (HMKGN) that models multi-scale interactions and spatially hierarchical relationships within whole-slide images (WSIs) for cancer prognostication. Unlike conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Bin Xu , Yufei Zhou , Boling Song , Jingwen Sun , Yang Bian , Cheng Lu , Ye Wu , Jianfei Tu , Xiangxue Wang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides essential spatial context by mapping gene expression within tissue, enabling detailed study of cellular heterogeneity and tissue organization. However, aligning ST data with histology images poses…

Integrating Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) remains a central challenge in text-rich heterophilic graph learning. We propose a novel integration framework that enables effective fusion between powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Aarush Sinha

Histology imaging is an important tool in medical diagnosis and research, enabling the examination of tissue structure and composition at the microscopic level. Understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of tissue architecture is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Ronald Xie , Kuan Pang , Sai W. Chung , Catia T. Perciani , Sonya A. MacParland , Bo Wang , Gary D. Bader

Gene expression profiling provides profound insights into molecular mechanisms, but its time-consuming and costly nature often presents significant challenges. In contrast, whole-slide hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained histological images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Ying Xiong , Linjing Liu , Yufei Cui , Shangyu Wu , Xue Liu , Antoni B. Chan , Chun Jason Xue