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Tumour heterogeneity in breast cancer poses challenges in predicting outcome and response to therapy. Spatial transcriptomics technologies may address these challenges, as they provide a wealth of information about gene expression at the…

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Cells in multicellular organisms coordinate to form structural and functional niches. With spatial transcriptomics (ST) enabling gene expression profiling in spatial contexts, it has been revealed that spatial niches serve as cohesive and…

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Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) is a method that captures gene expression profiles aligned with spatial coordinates. The discrete spatial distribution and the super-high dimensional sequencing results make ST data challenging to be modeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qingtian Zhu , Yumin Zheng , Yuling Sang , Yifan Zhan , Ziyan Zhu , Jun Ding , Yinqiang Zheng

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

The advancement of Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) has facilitated the spatially-aware profiling of gene expressions based on histopathology images. Although ST data offers valuable insights into the micro-environment of tumors, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hongyi Wang , Xiuju Du , Jing Liu , Shuyi Ouyang , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides high-resolution pathological images and whole-transcriptomic expression profiles at individual spots across whole-slide scales. This setting makes it an ideal data source to develop multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yuxiang Lin , Ling Luo , Ying Chen , Xushi Zhang , Zihui Wang , Wenxian Yang , Mengsha Tong , Rongshan Yu

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) technologies provide biologists with rich insights into single-cell biology by preserving spatial context of cells. Building foundational models for ST can significantly enhance the analysis of vast and complex…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-24 Suyuan Zhao , Yizhen Luo , Ganbo Yang , Yan Zhong , Hao Zhou , Zaiqing Nie

Spatial transcriptomics provides an unprecedented perspective for deciphering tissue spatial heterogeneity. However, high-resolution spatial transcriptomic technology remains constrained by limited gene coverage, technical complexity, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-19 Xinlei Huang , Weihao Dai , Zijun Qin , Xin Yu , Di Wang , Yanran Liu , Lixin Cheng , Xubin Zheng

The integration of spatial multi-omics data from single tissues is crucial for advancing biological research. However, a significant data imbalance impedes progress: while spatial transcriptomics data is relatively abundant, spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhaorui Jiang , Yingfang Yuan , Lei Hu , Wei Pang

High-resolution spatial transcriptomics (HR-ST) technologies offer unprecedented insights into tissue architecture but lack standardized frameworks for histological annotation. We present ST2HE, a cross-platform generative framework that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-16 Zhentao Liu , Arun Das , Wen Meng , Yu-Chiao Chiu , Shou-Jiang Gao , Yufei Huang

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

The development of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics has revolutionized our capacity to investigate cellular properties, functions, and interactions in both cellular and spatial contexts. However, the analysis of single-cell and…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-09 Shuang Ge , Shuqing Sun , Huan Xu , Qiang Cheng , Zhixiang Ren

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

Computational analysis of multiplexed immunofluorescence histology data is emerging as an important method for understanding the tumour micro-environment in cancer. This work presents HEMIT, a dataset designed for translating Hematoxylin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Chang Bian , Beth Philips , Tim Cootes , Martin Fergie

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into…

The heterogeneity of breast cancer presents considerable challenges for its early detection, prognosis, and treatment selection. Convolutional neural networks often neglect the spatial relationships within histopathological images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Akhila Krishna K , Ravi Kant Gupta , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

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

Network theory has proven invaluable in unraveling complex protein interactions. Previous studies have employed statistical methods rooted in network theory, including the Gaussian graphical model, to infer networks among proteins,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-07 Seungjun Ahn , Eun Jeong Oh

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

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,…