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Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have emerged as a core approach for learning transferable representations from whole slide images (WSIs), and they are typically benchmarked through downstream clinical endpoints. While such task level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bokai Zhao , Yiyang Zhang , Yuanchi Zhu , Hanqing Chao , Long Bai , Tai Ma , Minfeng Xu , Ming Song , Tianzi Jiang

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 (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 (ST) is a technology that measures gene expression profiles within tissue sections while retaining spatial context. It reveals localized gene expression patterns and tissue heterogeneity, both of which are essential…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Wei Zhang , Jiajun Chu , Xinci Liu , Chen Tong , Xinyue Li

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies not only offer an unprecedented opportunity to interrogate intact biological samples in a spatially informed manner, but also set the stage for integration with other imaging-based modalities.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-31 Levin M Moser , Ahmad Kamal Hamid , Esteban Miglietta , Nodar Gogoberidze , Beth A Cimini

While pathology foundation models have transformed cancer image analysis, they often lack integration with molecular data at single-cell resolution, limiting their utility for precision oncology. Here, we present PAST, a pan-cancer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-10 Changchun Yang , Haoyang Li , Yushuai Wu , Yilan Zhang , Yifeng Jiao , Yu Zhang , Rihan Huang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi , Xin Guo , Xin Gao

Recent advances in computational pathology have leveraged vision-language models to learn joint representations of Hematoxylin and Eosin (HE) images with spatial transcriptomic (ST) profiles. However, existing approaches typically align HE…

Single-cell transcriptomics and proteomics have become a great source for data-driven insights into biology, enabling the use of advanced deep learning methods to understand cellular heterogeneity and gene expression at the single-cell…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-15 Hiren Madhu , João Felipe Rocha , Tinglin Huang , Siddharth Viswanath , Smita Krishnaswamy , Rex Ying

The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics(ST) enables the measurement of gene expression at spatial resolution, making it possible to simultaneously profile the gene expression, spatial locations of spots, and the matched…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Changxi Chi , Hang Shi , Qi Zhu , Daoqiang Zhang , Wei Shao

Spatial transcriptomics is an emerging field that enables the identification of functional regions based on the spatial distribution of gene expression. Integrating this functional information present in transcriptomic data with structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Shanaka Liyanaarachchi , Chathurya Wijethunga , Shihab Aaqil Ahamed , Akthas Absar , Ranga Rodrigo

Spatial transcriptomics enables interrogating the molecular composition of tissue with ever-increasing resolution and sensitivity. However, costs, rapidly evolving technology, and lack of standards have constrained computational methods in…

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables spot-level in situ expression profiling, but its high cost and limited throughput motivate predicting expression directly from HE-stained histology. Recent advances explore using score- or flow-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Donghai Fang , Yongheng Li , Zhen Wang , Yuansong Zeng , Wenwen Min

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

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

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 (ST) is essential for understanding diseases and developing novel treatments. It measures gene expression of each fine-grained area (i.e., different windows) in the tissue slide with low throughput. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yan Yang , Md Zakir Hossain , Eric A Stone , Shafin Rahman

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

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables spatially resolved gene profiling but remains expensive and low-throughput, limiting large-cohort studies and routine clinical use. Predicting spatial gene expression from routine hematoxylin and eosin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Changfan Wang , Xinran Wang , Donghai Liu , Fei Su , Lulu Sun , Zhicheng Zhao , Zhu Meng

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) reveals spatial heterogeneity of gene expression, yet its resolution is limited by current platforms. Recent methods enhance resolution via H&E-stained histology, but three major challenges persist: (1)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Xuepeng Liu , Zheng Jiang , Pinan Zhu , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

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