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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

In recent years, the advent of spatial transcriptomics (ST) technology has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for delving into the complexities of gene expression patterns within intricate biological systems. Despite its transformative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Wenwen Min , Zhiceng Shi , Jun Zhang , Jun Wan , Changmiao Wang

Understanding how cellular morphology, gene expression, and spatial context jointly shape tissue function is a central challenge in biology. Image-based spatial transcriptomics technologies now provide high-resolution measurements of cell…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-17 Zhenglun Kong , Mufan Qiu , John Boesen , Xiang Lin , Sukwon Yun , Tianlong Chen , Manolis Kellis , Marinka Zitnik

Spatial transcriptomics is an emerging technology that aligns histopathology images with spatially resolved gene expression profiling. It holds the potential for understanding many diseases but faces significant bottlenecks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Gabriel Mejia , Paula Cárdenas , Daniela Ruiz , Angela Castillo , Pablo Arbeláez

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 advent of next-generation sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) techniques has reshaped genomic studies by enabling high-throughput gene expression profiling while preserving spatial and morphological context.…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-20 Bencong Zhu , Alberto Cassese , Marina Vannucci , Michele Guindani , Qiwei Li

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) allows a high-resolution measurement of RNA sequence abundance by systematically connecting cell morphology depicted in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained histology images to spatially resolved gene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Sichen Zhu , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Peng Qiu

Identifying disease-indicative genes is critical for deciphering disease mechanisms and has attracted significant interest in biomedical research. Spatial transcriptomics offers unprecedented insights for the detection of disease-specific…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-05 Qicheng Zhao , Qihuang Zhang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a novel technique that simultaneously captures pathological images and gene expression profiling with spatial coordinates. Since ST is closely related to pathological features such as disease subtypes, it may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuya Nishimura , Ryoma Bise , Yasuhiro Kojima

With the emergence of advanced spatial transcriptomic technologies, there has been a surge in research papers dedicated to analyzing spatial transcriptomics data, resulting in significant contributions to our understanding of biology. The…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-11 Sikta Das Adhikari , Jiaxin Yang , Jianrong Wang , Yuehua Cui

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,…

Spatial transcriptomics enables simultaneous measurement of gene expression and tissue morphology, offering unprecedented insights into cellular organization and disease mechanisms. However, the field lacks comprehensive benchmarks for…

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in multimodal learning within computational pathology. Existing models primarily rely on vision and language modalities; however, language alone lacks molecular specificity and offers limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Minghao Han , Dingkang Yang , Linhao Qu , Zizhi Chen , Gang Li , Han Wang , Jiacong Wang , Lihua Zhang

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) 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

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

"Is it possible to predict expression levels of different genes at a given spatial location in the routine histology image of a tumor section by modeling its stain absorption characteristics?" In this work, we propose a "stain-aware"…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Muhammad Dawood , Kim Branson , Nasir M. Rajpoot , Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas

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 aims to connect high-resolution histology images with spatially resolved gene expression. To achieve better performance on downstream tasks such as gene expression prediction, large-scale pre-training is required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiahe Qian , Yaoyu Fang , Ziqiao Weng , Xinkun Wang , Lee A. Cooper , Bo Zhou

Deep learning has proven to successfully learn variations in tissue and cell morphology. Training of such models typically relies on expensive manual annotations. Here we conjecture that spatially resolved gene expression, e.i., the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-11 Axel Andersson , Gabriele Partel , Leslie Solorzano , Carolina Wählby