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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…

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Deep learning models can generate virtual immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) images, offering a scalable and low-cost alternative to laboratory IHC. However, reliable evaluation of image quality remains a…

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Recent advancements in Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) technology have facilitated detailed gene expression analysis within tissue contexts. However, the high costs and methodological limitations of ST necessitate a more robust predictive…

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Spatial transcriptomics studies are becoming increasingly large and commonplace, necessitating simultaneous analysis of a large number of spatially resolved variables. Correspondingly, a diverse range of methodologies have been proposed to…

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Diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic decision-making of cancer in pathology clinics can now be carried out based on analysis of multi-gigapixel tissue images, also known as whole-slide images (WSIs). Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Quoc Dang Vu , Kashif Rajpoot , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Nasir Rajpoot

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…

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Unsupervised anomaly detection and localization is a crucial task as it is impossible to collect and label all possible anomalies. Many studies have emphasized the importance of integrating local and global information to achieve accurate…

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Blood vessels (BVs) play a critical role in the Tumor Micro-Environment (TME), potentially influencing cancer progression and treatment response. However, manually quantifying BVs in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images is challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Jiaqi Lv , Stefan S Antonowicz , Shan E Ahmed Raza

With the rapid development of digital pathology, virtual staining has become a key technology in multimedia medical information systems, offering new possibilities for the analysis and diagnosis of pathological images. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hao Yang , JianYu Wu , Run Fang , Xuelian Zhao , Yuan Ji , Zhiyu Chen , Guibin He , Junceng Guo , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

The cells and their spatial patterns in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a key role in tumor evolution, and yet the latter remains an understudied topic in computational pathology. This study, to the best of our knowledge, is among the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-21 Pingjun Chen , Muhammad Aminu , Siba El Hussein , Joseph D. Khoury , Jia Wu

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has revolutionised transcriptomics analysis by preserving tissue architecture, allowing researchers to study gene expression in its native spatial context. However, despite its potential, ST still faces…

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Inspection of tissues using a light microscope is the primary method of diagnosing many diseases, notably cancer. Highly multiplexed tissue imaging builds on this foundation, enabling the collection of up to 60 channels of molecular…