English
Related papers

Related papers: A unified approach to spatial domain detection and…

200 papers

Single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers a unique approach to measuring gene expression profiles and spatial cell locations simultaneously. However, most existing ST methods assume that cells in closer spatial proximity exhibit more…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Xiongtao Xiao , Xiaofeng Chen , Feiyan Jiang , Songming Zhang , Wenming Cao , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Zhongshan Li

Cell detection is an important task in biomedical research. Recently, deep learning methods have made it possible to improve the performance of cell detection. However, a detection network trained with training data under a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hyeonwoo Cho , Kazuya Nishimura , Kazuhide Watanabe , Ryoma Bise

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 is a modern sequencing technology that allows the measurement of the activity of thousands of genes in a tissue sample and map where the activity is occurring. This technology has enabled the study of the so-called…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-15 Andrea Sottosanti , Davide Risso

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides spatially resolved measurements of gene expression, enabling characterization of the molecular landscape of human tissue beyond histological assessment as well as localized readouts that can be aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Konstantin Hemker , Andrew H. Song , Cristina Almagro-Pérez , Guillaume Jaume , Sophia J. Wagner , Anurag Vaidya , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik , Faisal Mahmood

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) captures gene expression within distinct regions (i.e., windows) of a tissue slide. Traditional supervised learning frameworks applied to model ST are constrained to predicting expression from slide image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yan Yang , Md Zakir Hossain , Xuesong Li , Shafin Rahman , Eric Stone

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

We tackle the challenging problem of single-source domain generalization (DG) for medical image segmentation, where we train a network on one domain (e.g., CT) and directly apply it to a different domain (e.g., MR) without adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Franz Thaler , Martin Urschler , Mateusz Kozinski , Matthias AF Gsell , Gernot Plank , Darko Stern

We present a domain adaption framework to address a domain mismatch between synthetic training and real-world testing data. We demonstrate our method on a challenging fine-grain classification problem: recognizing a font style from an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Zhangyang Wang , Jianchao Yang , Hailin Jin , Eli Shechtman , Aseem Agarwala , Jonathan Brandt , Thomas S. Huang

Segmentation is a crucial analysis task in biomedical imaging. Given the diverse experimental settings in this field, the lack of generalization limits the use of deep learning in practice. Domain adaptation is a promising remedy: it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

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

We propose a domain adaptation approach for object detection. We introduce a two-step method: the first step makes the detector robust to low-level differences and the second step adapts the classifiers to changes in the high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Adrian Lopez Rodriguez , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Spatial transcriptomics has revolutionized tissue analysis by simultaneously mapping gene expression, spatial topography, and histological context across consecutive tissue sections, enabling systematic investigation of spatial…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-24 Meng Zhou , Shuangge Ma , Mengyun Wu

We present a novel unsupervised domain adaptation method for small bowel segmentation based on feature disentanglement. To make the domain adaptation more controllable, we disentangle intensity and non-intensity features within a unique…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Seung Yeon Shin , Sungwon Lee , Ronald M. Summers

"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

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

Background: Spatial transcriptomics have emerged as a powerful tool in biomedical research because of its ability to capture both the spatial contexts and abundance of the complete RNA transcript profile in organs of interest. However,…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-18 Shuo Shuo Liu , Shikun Wang , Yuxuan Chen , Anil K. Rustgi , Ming Yuan , Jianhua Hu

Recent advances in deep learning have led to the development of accurate and efficient models for various computer vision applications such as classification, segmentation, and detection. However, learning highly accurate models relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Poojan Oza , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vibashan VS , Vishal M. Patel

In the analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics data, detecting spatially variable genes (SVGs) is crucial. Numerous computational methods exist, but varying SVG definitions and methodologies lead to incomparable results. We review 33…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-04 Guanao Yan , Shuo Harper Hua , Jingyi Jessica Li

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