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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

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables spatially resolved gene profiling but remains expensive and low-throughput, limiting large-cohort studies and routine clinical use. Predicting spatial gene expression from routine hematoxylin and eosin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Changfan Wang , Xinran Wang , Donghai Liu , Fei Su , Lulu Sun , Zhicheng Zhao , Zhu Meng

Molecular phenotyping by gene expression profiling is common in contemporary cancer research and in molecular diagnostics. However, molecular profiling remains costly and resource intense to implement, and is just starting to be introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Philippe Weitz , Yinxi Wang , Kimmo Kartasalo , Lars Egevad , Johan Lindberg , Henrik Grönberg , Martin Eklund , Mattias Rantalainen

Molecular phenotyping is central in cancer precision medicine, but remains costly and standard methods only provide a tumour average profile. Microscopic morphological patterns observable in histopathology sections from tumours are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Yinxi Wang , Kimmo Kartasalo , Masi Valkonen , Christer Larsson , Pekka Ruusuvuori , Johan Hartman , Mattias Rantalainen

Human and animal tissues consist of heterogeneous cell types that organize and interact in highly structured manners. Bulk and single-cell sequencing technologies remove cells from their original microenvironments, resulting in a loss of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 Boxiang Liu , Yanjun Li , Liang Zhang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables gene expression mapping within anatomical context but remains costly and low-throughput. Hematoxylin and eosin (H\&E) staining offers rich morphology yet lacks molecular resolution. We present…

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) offers spatially resolved gene expression but remains costly. Predicting expression directly from widely available Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images presents a cost-effective alternative. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiarui Ouyang , Yihui Wang , Yihang Gao , Yingxue Xu , Shu Yang , Hao Chen

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures gene expression at a set of spatial locations in a tissue. Communities of nearby cells that express similar genes form \textit{spatial domains}. Specialized ST clustering algorithms have been developed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-12 Perry Beamer , Zixuan Cang

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

Recent advancements in image classification have demonstrated that contrastive learning (CL) can aid in further learning tasks by acquiring good feature representation from a limited number of data samples. In this paper, we applied CL to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Anchen Sun , Elizabeth J. Franzmann , Zhibin Chen , Xiaodong Cai

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

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

Integrating histopathology with spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides a powerful opportunity to link tissue morphology with molecular function. Yet most existing multimodal approaches rely on a small set of highly variable genes, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sejuti Majumder , Saarthak Kapse , Moinak Bhattacharya , Xuan Xu , Alisa Yurovsky , Prateek Prasanna

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 (ST) is a novel technology that enables the observation of gene expression at the resolution of individual spots within pathological tissues. ST quantifies the expression of tens of thousands of genes in a tissue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kaito Shiku , Kazuya Nishimura , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Yasuhiro Kojima , Ryoma Bise

Histopathology remains the gold standard for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. With the advent of transcriptome profiling, multi-modal learning combining transcriptomics with histology offers more comprehensive information. However, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Yupei Zhang , Xiaofei Wang , Anran Liu , Lequan Yu , Chao Li

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 estimation from pathology images has the potential to reduce the RNA sequencing cost. Point-wise loss functions have been widely used to minimize the discrepancy between predicted and absolute gene expression values.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kazuya Nishimura , Haruka Hirose , Ryoma Bise , Kaito Shiku , Yasuhiro Kojima

Motivation. Understanding the pan-cancer mutational landscape offers critical insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis. While patient-level machine learning techniques have been widely employed to identify tumor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yifan Dou , Adam Khadre , Ruben C Petreaca , Golrokh Mirzaei

Large medical imaging datasets can be cheaply and quickly annotated with low-confidence, weak labels (e.g., radiological scores). Access to high-confidence labels, such as histology-based diagnoses, is rare and costly. Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emma Sarfati , Alexandre Bône , Marc-Michel Rohé , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch