arXiv Machine Learning

Querying Counterfactuals on Tissue Graphs with Supervised Disentanglement

arXiv:2606. 08493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: \textit{Tissue graph counterfactuals} ask how a cell's expression would change under altered spatial neighbor contexts.

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
Jul 24

HierarchicalDAEW: Domain-Aware Edge-Weighted Graph Convolution with Evidential Uncertainty for Multi-Section Spatial Gene Expression Prediction from H&E Histology

arXiv:2607. 20896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics assays remain costly and technically demanding, restricting transcriptome-wide profiling to specialist settings and preventing routine clinical deployment.

By Kritanu Chattopadhyay, Soumya Chatterjee, Ondrej Krejcar, Debotosh Bhattacharjee
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 Machine Learning
Jul 28

INSIGHT: Spatially resolved survival modelling from routine histology crosslinked with molecular profiling reveals prognostic epithelial-immune axes in stage II/III colorectal cancer

arXiv:2512. 22262v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Routine histology contains rich prognostic information in stage II/III colorectal cancer, much of which is embedded in complex spatial tissue organisation.

By Piotr Keller, Mark Eastwood, Zedong Hu, Aim\'ee Selten, Ruqayya Awan, Gertjan Rasschaert, Sara Verbandt, Vlad Popovici, Hubert Piessevaux, Hayley T Morris, Petros Tsantoulis, Thomas Alexander McKee, Andr\'e D'Hoore, C\'edric Schraepen, Xavier Sagaert, Gert De Hertogh, Sabine Tejpar, Fayyaz Minhas
arXiv AI
Sep 15

End-to-End Cell Detection via Instance-aware Graph Modeling

The paper introduces an end‑to‑end framework for detecting and classifying cells in pathology images by jointly modeling visual features and instance‑level interactions. It employs a dynamic graph construction module that builds cell graphs from learnable queries and an instance‑aware graph network that filters and reorganizes features, integrating appearance and relational evidence. Experiments on multiple staining protocols show the method surpasses existing approaches in both detection and classification accuracy.

By Ruochen Liu, Yalin Zheng, Jingxin Liu, Jianfeng Zhang, Shoujun Huang, Dexing Kong, Haofeng Li, Wei Lou