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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

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has emerged as a powerful technology for bridging histology imaging with gene expression profiling. However, its application has been limited by low throughput and the need for specialized experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tinglin Huang , Tianyu Liu , Mehrtash Babadi , Wengong Jin , Rex Ying

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 (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) 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…

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 (ST) enables mapping gene expression with spatial context but is severely affected by high sparsity and technical noise, which conceals true biological signals and hinders downstream analyses. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sayeem Bin Zaman , Fahim Hafiz , Riasat Azim

The rapid growth of digital pathology and advances in self-supervised deep learning have enabled the development of foundational models for various pathology tasks across diverse diseases. While multimodal approaches integrating diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Ekaterina Redekop , Mara Pleasure , Zichen Wang , Kimberly Flores , Anthony Sisk , William Speier , Corey W. Arnold

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) 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

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

Cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy response predictions from tissue specimens highly depend on the phenotype and topological distribution of constituting histological entities. Thus, adequate tissue representations for encoding…

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

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

Spatial transcriptomics provides a molecularly rich description of tissue organization, enabling unsupervised discovery of tissue niches -- spatially coherent regions of distinct cell-type composition and function that are relevant to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Arbel Hizmi , Artemii Bakulin , Shai Bagon , Nir Yosef

Understanding the intricate cellular environment within biological tissues is crucial for uncovering insights into complex biological functions. While single-cell RNA sequencing has significantly enhanced our understanding of cellular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Bingjun Li , Mostafa Karami , Masum Shah Junayed , Sheida Nabavi

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides crucial insights into tissue micro-environments, but is limited to its high cost and complexity. As an alternative, predicting gene expression from pathology whole slide images (WSI) is gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mingcheng Qu , Yuncong Wu , Donglin Di , Yue Gao , Tonghua Su , Yang Song , Lei Fan

Spatial transcriptomics enables gene expression profiling with spatial context, offering unprecedented insights into the tissue microenvironment. However, most computational models treat genes as isolated numerical features, ignoring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiangkai Long , Yanran Zhu , Chang Tang , Kun Sun , Yuanyuan Liu , Xuesong Yan

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