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Spatial transcriptomics reveals gene expression patterns within tissue context, enabling precision oncology applications such as treatment response prediction, but its high cost and technical complexity limit clinical adoption. Predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Won June Cho , Hongjun Yoon , Daeky Jeong , Hyeongyeol Lim , Yosep Chong

This paper demonstrates that spatial information can be used to learn interpretable representations in medical images using Self-Supervised Learning (SSL). Our proposed method, ISImed, is based on the observation that medical images exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nabil Jabareen , Dongsheng Yuan , Sören Lukassen

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 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

Spatial transcriptomics data analysis integrates cellular transcriptional activity with spatial coordinates to identify spatial domains, infer cell-type dynamics, and characterize gene expression patterns within tissues. Despite recent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-25 Sean Cottrell , Guo-Wei Wei , Longxiu Huang

Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of disease progression in relation to transcriptomic profiles provides key insights into complex conditions such as Alzheimer disease. To enable such investigations, STARmap PLUS technology offers…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-28 Zitian Wu , Susmita Datta , Arkaprava Roy

The rapid development of digital pathology and modern deep learning has facilitated the emergence of pathology foundation models that are expected to solve general pathology problems under various disease conditions in one unified model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yutong Sun , Sichen Zhu , Peng Qiu

Spatially resolved transcriptomics is a fast-developing set of technologies that enables the measurement of localized gene expression across spatial locations in a sample. Detecting spatially varying genes is critical for analyzing such…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-22 Pritam Dey , Rajarshi Guhaniyogi , Yang Ni , Bani K. Mallick

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

Radiologists rely on anatomical understanding to accurately delineate pathologies, yet most current deep learning approaches use pure pattern recognition and ignore the anatomical context in which pathologies develop. To narrow this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Keyi Li , Alexander Jaus , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Robustness and generalizability in medical image segmentation are often hindered by scarcity and limited diversity of training data, which stands in contrast to the variability encountered during inference. While conventional strategies --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yimu Pan , Sitao Zhang , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , James Z. Wang

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) continue to pose challenges for multimodal understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Fengchun Liu , Songhan Jiang , Linghan Cai , Ziyue Wang , Yongbing Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has been successful in building patch embeddings of small histology images (e.g., 224x224 pixels), but scaling these models to learn slide embeddings from the entirety of giga-pixel whole-slide images (WSIs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Guillaume Jaume , Lukas Oldenburg , Anurag Vaidya , Richard J. Chen , Drew F. K. Williamson , Thomas Peeters , Andrew H. Song , Faisal Mahmood

Spatially resolved transcriptomics represents a significant advancement in single-cell analysis by offering both gene expression data and their corresponding physical locations. However, this high degree of spatial resolution entails a…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-19 Xiaoyu Li , Wenwen Min , Shunfang Wang , Changmiao Wang , Taosheng Xu

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

Histology analysis of the tumor micro-environment integrated with genomic assays is the gold standard for most cancers in modern medicine. This paper proposes a Gene-induced Multimodal Pre-training (GiMP) framework, which jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ting Jin , Xingran Xie , Renjie Wan , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

With the rapid advancement of Spatial Resolved Transcriptomics (SRT) technology, it is now possible to comprehensively measure gene transcription while preserving the spatial context of tissues. Spatial domain identification and gene…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-14 Donghai Fang , Fangfang Zhu , Dongting Xie , Wenwen Min

There exist numerous diagnostic tasks in pathology. Conventional computational pathology formulates and tackles them as independent and individual image classification problems, thereby resulting in computational inefficiency and high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Anh Tien Nguyen , Keunho Byeon , Kyungeun Kim , Boram Song , Seoung Wan Chae , Jin Tae Kwak

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced static visual--spatial reasoning, yet they often fail to preserve long-horizon spatial coherence in embodied settings where beliefs must be continuously revised from egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Chih-Ting Liao , Xi Xiao , Chunlei Meng , Zhangquan Chen , Yitong Qiao , Weilin Zhou , Tianyang Wang , Xu Zheng , Xin Cao