GATE-ST is a gene-aware text-image encoder that enhances spatial transcriptomics predictions by integrating gene descriptions into image-based models. The method encodes gene summaries with a text encoder and fuses these embeddings with image features via cross‑attention, aligning them with morphological cues. Benchmarks show GATE‑ST outperforms random gene embeddings and other image‑text fusion architectures, indicating its potential to improve accuracy while reducing time and cost in spatial gene expression analysis.
By Lucas Ni, Jian Luo, Wentao Huang, Chao Chen
arXiv:2608. 14924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) links tissue morphology with molecular programs, motivating multimodal pretraining methods that align histology images with gene expression.
By Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Junchao Zhu, Pushpak Pati, Walid Abdelmoula, Tommaso Mansi, Rui Liao
arXiv:2606. 08712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables gene expression measurements within the tissue context.
By Hongyi Yu, Yaoyu Fang, Jiahe Qian, Xinkun Wang, Lee A. Cooper, Bo Zhou
arXiv:2608. 14330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables genome-wide gene expression profiling while preserving tissue architecture, but its cost and limited scalability remain major bottlenecks.
By Ruyter Swann, Dorent Reuben, Racoceanu Daniel
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
CorrFlow is a new generative framework for predicting spatial transcriptomics from histology images. It explicitly models gene-gene interactions using an annealed masked flow matching strategy and a gene graph‑regularized optimization that incorporates prior knowledge from STRING and data‑driven co‑expression from WGCNA. Across 12 datasets, CorrFlow outperforms existing methods in average PCC and HPCC, producing more biologically coherent ST predictions.
By Yupei Zhang, Hao Chen, Li Pan, Chao Li, Xiaohan Xing
arXiv:2609.16207v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) has transformed biomedical research by enabling the spatial mapping of gene expression across tissue sections. However, hi...
By Daniela Vega, Paula C\'ardenas, Hannah Ceballos, Leonardo Manrique, Pablo Arbela\'ez
arXiv:2608. 14710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting spatial gene expression from hematoxylin and eosin (H\&E)-stained images offers a cost-effective alternative to spatial transcriptomics (ST).
By Ruochen Liu, Wei Lou
arXiv:2606. 02424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Histology-based single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) estimation aims to predict gene expression for individual cells from histopathological images and cell locations, reducing the need for costly single-cell ST measurements.
By Kaito Shiku, Ahtisham Fazeel Abbasi, Ryoma Bise, Yuichiro Iwashita, Kazuya Nishimura, Andreas Dengel, Muhammad Nabeel Asim
Recent advances in pathology foundation models have enabled accurate prediction of spatial transcriptomics (ST) from routine H&E images. However, existing explainability methods for vision transformer...
arXiv:2609.36429v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Predicting gene expression from H&E-stained histology images offers a scalable alternative to costly spatial transcriptomics, yet most existing methods...
By Zijun Gao, Chunbin Gu, Jinxi Xiang, Xiangde Luo, Pheng-Ann Heng
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