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Spatial transcriptomics is an emerging technology that aligns histopathology images with spatially resolved gene expression profiling. It holds the potential for understanding many diseases but faces significant bottlenecks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Gabriel Mejia , Paula Cárdenas , Daniela Ruiz , Angela Castillo , Pablo Arbeláez

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

Accurate detection of cancer tissue regions (CTR) enables deeper analysis of the tumor microenvironment and offers crucial insights into treatment response. Traditional CTR detection methods, which typically rely on the rich cellular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shuailin Xue , Jun Wan , Lihua Zhang , 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

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

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) 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

Human and animal tissues consist of heterogeneous cell types that organize and interact in highly structured manners. Bulk and single-cell sequencing technologies remove cells from their original microenvironments, resulting in a loss of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 Boxiang Liu , Yanjun Li , Liang Zhang

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

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

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

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

We propose CAST, a dual-stream architecture that utilizes channel-aware spatial transfer learning for isolated sign language recognition addressing the challenges of magnitude-only 60~GHz radar Range-Time Maps (RTM). The proposed framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Md. Shakhoyat Rahman Shujon , Sheikh Md. Galib Mahim , Md. Milon Islam , Md Rezwanul Haque , Md Rabiul Islam , Hamdi Altaheri , Fakhri Karray

The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers new opportunities to explore the gene expression patterns within the spatial microenvironment. Current research integrates pathological images to infer gene expression, addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Junchao Zhu , Ruining Deng , Tianyuan Yao , Juming Xiong , Chongyu Qu , Junlin Guo , Siqi Lu , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Mengmeng Yin , Yu Wang , Shilin Zhao , Yaohong Wang , Haichun Yang , Yuankai Huo

The recent advancement of spatial transcriptomics (ST) allows to characterize spatial gene expression within tissue for discovery research. However, current ST platforms suffer from low resolution, hindering in-depth understanding of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Xiaofei Wang , Xingxu Huang , Stephen J. Price , Chao Li

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

Cell recognition is a fundamental task in digital histopathology image analysis. Point-based cell recognition (PCR) methods normally require a vast number of annotations, which is extremely costly, time-consuming and labor-intensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhongyi Shui , Yizhi Zhao , Sunyi Zheng , Yunlong Zhang , Honglin Li , Shichuan Zhang , Xiaoxuan Yu , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Spatial transcriptomics offers spatially resolved gene expression profiling within tissue sections, but its cost and limited throughput hinder large-scale deployment. To extend this capability to routine practice, recent computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Keunho Byeon , Jin Tae Kwak

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) offers spatially resolved gene expression but remains costly. Predicting expression directly from widely available Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images presents a cost-effective alternative. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiarui Ouyang , Yihui Wang , Yihang Gao , Yingxue Xu , Shu Yang , Hao Chen

Spatial variable genes (SVGs) reveal critical information about tissue architecture, cellular interactions, and disease microenvironments. As spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies proliferate, accurately identifying SVGs across diverse…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-21 Jiawen Chen , Jinwei Zhang , Dongshen Peng , Yutong Song , Aitong Ruan , Yun Li , Didong Li