arXiv Computer Vision

MorphoCLIP: Text-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Perturbation Matching in Cell Painting Images

arXiv AI
Jun 3

CP-Agent: Context-Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations

arXiv:2606. 03435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cell Painting combines multiplexed fluorescent staining, high-content imaging, and quantitative analysis to generate high-dimensional phenotypic readouts to support diverse downstream tasks such as mechanism-of-action (MoA) inference, toxicity prediction, and construction of drug-disease atlases.

By Yuxin Zhang, Yiyao Li, Ping Shu Ho, Simon See, Zhenqin Wu, Kevin Tsia
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

Improving Molecular-Morphology Contrastive Pretraining using Deep-Learning-based Morphology Profiles

The paper presents MoCoP v2, an enhanced contrastive pretraining method that aligns small molecule embeddings with deep‑learning‑derived cell morphology profiles. By replacing CellProfiler fingerprints with richer image‑encoded features, the new embeddings better capture how molecules alter cell morphology, leading to improved QSAR, toxicity, ADME, and activity predictions. Performance scales log‑linearly with training data size, indicating further gains with larger datasets.

By Jie Li, Kathryn E. Kirchoff, Dante A. Pertusi, Zhizhuo Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

scMIR: a vision-language foundation model for single-cell light microscopy image representation

arXiv:2607. 22712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell light microscopy images have become an important data source for characterizing cell phenotypes, but their complexity and heterogeneity pose challenges to high-throughput automated analysis.

By Yifan Shang (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China), Jiahui Tan (College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China), Xiangxiang Zeng (College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China), Renjie Zhou (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
arXiv AI
Sep 30

From Retrieval to Reasoning: Agentic Mechanism Prediction from Cell Painting Profiles

The paper introduces PhenoAIR, a reliability‑aware multi‑agent framework for predicting mechanisms of action (MOA) from Cell Painting morphological profiles. It treats retrieved neighbors as uncertain evidence, calibrating their reliability based on source, phenotype stability, and mechanism confusion, and refines predictions through controller‑guided evidence evaluation. PhenoAIR is benchmarked on JUMP Cell Painting data and outperforms both representation‑matching and LLM‑based baselines across controlled, realistic, and open‑world settings.

By Jiayuan Chen, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu, Thai-Hoang Pham, Meng Wu, Ping Zhang