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 AI
Jun 30

Data-Efficient Multimodal Alignment for Histopathology-based Molecular Prediction

arXiv:2606. 29949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: H&E-stained whole-slide images offer cohort-scale availability and rich spatial context but lack molecular specificity, whereas bulk RNA-seq provides transcriptome-wide resolution at high cost with limited archival availability.

By Dominik Winter, Dominik Vonficht, Lo\"ic Le Bescond, Christian Gebbe, Marco Rosati, Richard J. Chen, Markus Schick, Ross Stewart, Nicolas Brieu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
5d ago

MIST: Multi-Scale Spatial Context for Gene Expression Prediction from Histology

MIST is a Multi‑context Spatial Transformer that predicts spatial gene expression from H&E images by adding two context pathways to a standard Transformer: a coordinate‑invariant local pathway that attends to spatial k‑nearest‑neighbor spots, and a slide pathway that broadcasts a whole‑slide summary to every spot. In intra‑cohort evaluation across six human organ cohorts, MIST improves mean Pearson correlation by 9.7%–11.6% over the strongest baseline for 10‑, 50‑, and 100‑gene panels, and achieves lower MSE and MAE. It also outperforms baselines in leave‑one‑organ‑out transfer, domain recovery, and reproduces spatial expression patterns of cancer‑marker genes.