arXiv AI

SP-Mind: An Autonomous Reasoning Agent for Spatial Proteomics Analysis

arXiv:2606. 24235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial proteomics enables single-cell-resolution characterization of protein expression within tissue architecture, playing a critical role in understanding tumor microenvironments and guiding precision medicine.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

CodeCytos: AI-assisted spatial molecular imaging analysis via code-augmented agent action space

arXiv:2606. 00472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional tissue image analysis software provides foundational capabilities for cellular analysis, including segmentation, basic morphological feature extraction, and spatial organization analysis.

By Hung Q. Vo, Huy Q. Vo, Son T. Ly, Zhihao Wan, Anh-Vu Nguyen, Hong Zhao, Jianting Sheng, Stephen T. C. Wong, Hien V. Nguyen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

HEIST: A Graph Foundation Model for Spatial Transcriptomics and Proteomics Data

arXiv:2506. 11152v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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 level.

By Hiren Madhu, Jo\~ao Felipe Rocha, Tinglin Huang, Siddharth Viswanath, Smita Krishnaswamy, Rex Ying
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Spatial Transcriptomics-Guided Alignment Enhances Molecular Profiling in Pathology Foundation Model

arXiv:2606. 03644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive molecular profiling is essential for modern precision oncology but remains hindered by prohibitive costs, specimen exhaustion, and protracted turnaround times.

By Fengtao Zhou, Yingxue Xu, Zhengyu Zhang, Yihui Wang, Zhengrui Guo, Ling Liang, Jiabo Ma, Cheng Jin, Ziyi Liu, Huajun Zhou, Hongyi Wang, Du Cai, Chenglong Zhao, Xi Wang, Can Yang, Yu Wang, Wenbin Li, Feng Gao, Zhe Wang, Zhenhui Li, Xiuming Zhang, Li Liang, Hao Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Can Coding Agents Build Robust Baselines? A Skill-Based Approach for Automating the Medical Imaging Model-Development Pipeline

The paper introduces an agentic AI Scientist workflow that automates the entire baseline development process for medical imaging by combining literature-guided reasoning, automated code generation, and hypothesis-driven experimentation. Evaluated on four public benchmarks covering segmentation, classification, and detection, the pipeline consistently improves validation performance, achieving competitive leaderboard results such as 6th place on both PUMA tracks and 31st on MILK10k. The approach also shows strong domain generalization on MIDOG25 across scanners, tumor types, and species, demonstrating that a skill-based, literature-guided agentic workflow can reduce engineering effort without task-specific redesign.

By Eugenia Moris, Jos\'e Ignacio Orlando
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

SpaFactor: Lightweight Spatial Context-Aware Gene Program Modeling for Histology-to-Transcriptomics Inference

SpaFactor is a lightweight framework that predicts spatial gene expression from hematoxylin and eosin images by fusing central spot visuals with multiscale neighborhood context. It uses a residual MLP to map tissue microenvironment to low‑dimensional latent gene programs, which are decoded into coordinated multi‑gene predictions. Across five public cohorts, SpaFactor outperforms existing methods, especially for spatially variable genes, and better recovers biologically organized spatial patterns.

By Shiting Ruan, Xitong Ling, Qiming He, Ziyou Yan, Huaitian Yuan, Tian Guan, Ying Xiao, Xu Guan, Yonghong He
arXiv AI
3d ago

OSWorld-Science: A Benchmark of Computer Use Agents for Learning and Using Scientific Software

OSWorld-Science is a benchmark and evaluation environment for computer-using agents that use visual language models (VLMs) to perform scientific software tasks. It includes 12 VLMs and 146 high-quality tasks across domains such as molecular drawing, pathology image analysis, statistical computing, and physical simulation, with artifact-based evaluation and a harness that logs interactions and supports model comparison. The benchmark was developed through expert proposals and iterative human–AI co‑design, and results show that current VLMs still struggle with key scientific questions, offering insights into factors like language, reasoning, and context length.

By Dingyuan Dai, Heli Qi, Lei Liu, Yinxi Li, Baiding Chen, Zijun Dou, Qingcheng Zeng, Qi Kang, Oliver Sun, Eric Wang, Bo Zhou, Haixin Wang, Yufan Du, Shi Bo, Ruihan Lin, Mengqi Yuan, Dunjie Lu, Steven Dillmann, Yiming Shi, Tina Su, Amy Xin, Minghao Liu, Xi Wang, Xu Huang, Ge Zhang, Pengyu Nie, Zhen Yang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, Weihao Xuan, Tianyu Liu