arXiv Computer Vision September 4, 2026 By Ben Isselmann, Dilara G\"oksu, Heinz Neumann, Andreas Weinmann

Using Deep Learning Models Pretrained by Self-Supervised Learning for Protein Localization

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The study evaluates self‑supervised learning (SSL) models pretrained on ImageNet‑1k and the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) Field‑of‑View (FOV) for protein localization in microscopy images. DINO‑based Vision Transformer backbones pretrained on either dataset transfer well to the OpenCell dataset, achieving strong performance even without fine‑tuning and improving further when fine‑tuned (0.704 ± 0.027 macro F1 on 17 classes). At the single‑cell level, the HPA‑pretrained model outperforms others in k‑nearest‑neighbor classification across all neighborhood sizes (macro F1 ≥ 0.515).

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