Accurate prediction of patient-specific therapeutic response from pre-treatment transcriptomes is hindered by the scarcity of matched clinical response labels and post-treatment molecular profiles. Preclinical transfer-learning models can simulate drug-induced expression changes but are often hard to interpret and unstable, whereas knowledge-graph methods provide mechanistic context yet remain static and fail to capture drug-induced transcriptomic perturbation dynamics.
arXiv:2607. 04557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate prediction of patient-specific therapeutic response from pre-treatment transcriptomes is hindered by the scarcity of matched clinical response labels and post-treatment molecular profiles.
By Dongmin Bang, Sugyun An, Inyoung Sung, Ilho Yun, Sun Kim, Sangseon Lee
PerturbRx is a treatment‑conditioned representation learning framework that learns latent transitions induced by drug interventions. It trains a drug‑ and dose‑conditioned transition predictor using control and treated single‑cell populations, then applies this predictor to pretreatment patient profiles to generate response features without needing post‑treatment data. On TCGA and patient‑derived xenograft benchmarks, PerturbRx outperforms other methods, demonstrating the value of perturbation‑pretrained latent transitions for patient‑level drug‑response prediction.
By Yoshitaka Inoue, Minoh Jeong, Alfred Hero, Rui Kuang, Augustin Luna
arXiv:2608.24688v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Precision oncology necessitates a longitudinal model of patient state that captures cancer evolution and treatment over time, integrating multimodal ob...
By Eugene Vorontsov, Yi Kan Wang, Alican Bozkurt, Adam Casson, Ludmila Tydlitatova, Michal Zelechowski, Ezra E. W. Cohen, Jyoti D. Patel, Max Banaszak, Caitlin McWilliams, Shane Colley, Kate Sasser, Ryan Fukushima, Eric Lefkofsky, Razik Yousfi, Siqi Liu
arXiv:2410. 00945v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gene-expression profiling is widely used in research and central to many areas of precision oncology, but remains costly and not universally accessible.
By Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Constance Boissin, Johan Vallon-Christersson, Mattias Rantalainen
arXiv:2606. 09898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cancer treatment planning requires decisions across multiple clinical dimensions at once.
By Sujoy Banik, Sayantan Chakraborty, Boishakhi Das Toma, Zainab Ghafoor, Ushashi Bhattacharjee, Koushik Howlader, Tirtho Roy
SMILESGNN is a multimodal architecture that fuses a SMILES Transformer encoder with a GATv2 graph encoder through cross‑attention, enabling interpretable clinical toxicity predictions. The model retains an explicit graph branch, allowing GNNExplainer to identify substructures linked to toxicity. On the ClinTox dataset it achieves an AUC‑ROC of 0.987 and F1 of 0.906 with only 0.4 M parameters, while on Tox21 it attains a mean AUC‑ROC of 0.750, comparable to strong single‑modality baselines.
By Quang Minh Nguyen, Thuy Quynh Nguyen, Duc Minh Le, Ho Nhat Minh Nguyen, Thanh Long Dai Doan, Trong Nghia Nguyen
arXiv:2608. 00985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of single-cell transcriptomic data has enabled the development of foundation models pretrained primarily by reconstructing masked expression values.
By Jiaqi Xiong, Yuntao hu, Yu Zheng, Yifei Shi, Xinyue Guo, Jiaxin Qi
arXiv:2606. 05797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Longitudinal treatment decisions require predicting potential outcomes under future treatment sequences in the presence of time-varying confounding, heterogeneous patient dynamics, and limited domain-specific data.
By Amirhossein Zare, Amirhessam Zare, Herlock Rahimi, Reza Salarikia, Mohammad Kashkooli
arXiv:2606. 09898v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cancer treatment involves decisions across multiple clinical outcomes, yet pathway-informed deep learning models are typically evaluated in isolation, making their relative benefits unclear.
By Sujoy Banik, Sayantan Chakraborty, Boishakhi Das Toma, Zainab Ghafoor, Ushashi Bhattacharjee, Koushik Howlader, Tirtho Roy
Single-cell transcriptomes are sparse observations of coordinated biological programmes, yet most self-supervised models learn by reconstructing individual genes. Here we present BioM-JEPA, a joint-embedding predictive architecture that instead predicts aggregate representations of graph-connected gene blocks defined by protein-association and corpus-derived coexpression evidence.
arXiv:2606. 01042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perturbation experiments are central to understanding cellular mechanisms, but remain costly and sparse, motivating prediction of gene expression responses for unobserved conditions.
By Xinyu Yuan, Xixian Liu, Jianan Zhao, Yashi Zhang, Hongyu Guo, Jian Tang