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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a groundbreaking genomic technology that enables spatial localization analysis of gene expression within tissue sections. However, it is significantly limited by high costs and sparse spatial resolution. An…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Zhiceng Shi , Shuailin Xue , Fangfang Zhu , Wenwen Min

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) reveals the spatial distribution of gene expression in tissues, offering critical insights into biological processes and disease mechanisms. However, the high cost, limited coverage, and technical complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yi Niu , Jiashuai Liu , Yingkang Zhan , Jiangbo Shi , Di Zhang , Marika Reinius , Ines Machado , Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar , Jialun Wu , Chen Li , Zeyu Gao

Spatial Transformer Networks (STNs) estimate image transformations that can improve downstream tasks by `zooming in' on relevant regions in an image. However, STNs are hard to train and sensitive to mis-predictions of transformations. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Pola Schwöbel , Frederik Warburg , Martin Jørgensen , Kristoffer H. Madsen , Søren Hauberg

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies enable gene expression profiling with spatial resolution, offering unprecedented insights into tissue organization and disease heterogeneity. However, current analysis methods often struggle with…

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (ST) measures gene expression along with the spatial coordinates of the measurements. The analysis of ST data involves significant computation complexity. In this work, we propose gene expression…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-24 Zhuoyan Xu , Kris Sankaran

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is an emerging technology that enables researchers to investigate the molecular relationships underlying tissue morphology. However, acquiring ST data remains prohibitively expensive, and traditional fixed-grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junchao Zhu , Ruining Deng , Junlin Guo , Tianyuan Yao , Chongyu Qu , Juming Xiong , Siqi Lu , Zhengyi Lu , Yanfan Zhu , Marilyn Lionts , Yuechen Yang , Yalin Zheng , Yu Wang , Shilin Zhao , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

Spatial transcriptomics enables simultaneous measurement of gene expression and tissue morphology, offering unprecedented insights into cellular organization and disease mechanisms. However, the field lacks comprehensive benchmarks for…

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 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

Image pre-training, the current de-facto paradigm for a wide range of visual tasks, is generally less favored in the field of video recognition. By contrast, a common strategy is to directly train with spatiotemporal convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xianhang Li , Huiyu Wang , Chen Wei , Jieru Mei , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

The rapid growth of digital pathology and advances in self-supervised deep learning have enabled the development of foundational models for various pathology tasks across diverse diseases. While multimodal approaches integrating diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Ekaterina Redekop , Mara Pleasure , Zichen Wang , Kimberly Flores , Anthony Sisk , William Speier , Corey W. Arnold

Spatial transcriptomics measures the expression of thousands of genes in a tissue sample while preserving its spatial structure. This class of technologies has enabled the investigation of the spatial variation of gene expressions and their…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 Andrea Sottosanti , Davide Risso , Francesco Denti

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

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

Pathology foundation models learn morphological representations through self-supervised pretraining on large-scale whole-slide images, yet they do not explicitly capture the underlying molecular state of the tissue. Spatial transcriptomics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minsoo Lee , Jonghyun Kim , Juseung Yun , Sunwoo Yu , Jongseong Jang

Whole slide images (WSIs) enable weakly supervised prognostic modeling via multiple instance learning (MIL). Spatial transcriptomics (ST) preserves in situ gene expression, providing a spatial molecular context that complements morphology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lihe Liu , Xiaoxi Pan , Yinyin Yuan , Lulu Shang

Spatial transcriptomics is a technology that captures gene expression levels at different spatial locations, widely used in tumor microenvironment analysis and molecular profiling of histopathology, providing valuable insights into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Junzhuo Liu , Markus Eckstein , Zhixiang Wang , Friedrich Feuerhake , Dorit Merhof

Spatial transcriptomic (ST) clustering employs spatial and transcription information to group spots spatially coherent and transcriptionally similar together into the same spatial domain. Graph convolution network (GCN) and graph attention…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-24 Chen Zhang , Junhui Gao , Lingxin Kong , Guangshuo cao , Xiangyu Guo , Wei Liu

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures mRNA expression while preserving spatial organization, but multi-slice analysis faces two coupled difficulties: large non-rigid deformations across slices and inter-slice batch effects when alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bonian Han , Cong Qi , Przemyslaw Musialski , Zhi Wei

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) has emerged as an advanced technology that provides spatial context to gene expression. Recently, deep learning-based methods have shown the capability to predict gene expression from WSI data using ST data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mingcheng Qu , Yuncong Wu , Donglin Di , Anyang Su , Tonghua Su , Yang Song , Lei Fan