Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11344
Here, we reimplemented a number of different baselines models for a task related to Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) - predicting gene expression from Whole Slide Images (WSIs) Original source code for our proposed method will be updated later
Models implemented so far:
- ST-Net
- HisToGene
- DeepPT
- TCGN
- Download data: Run "git clone https://github.com/almaan/her2st.git" in the "data" folder to clone the HER2ST dataset
- To unzip files in ST-cnts, cd into "MMAP-Baselines/data/her2st/data/ST-cnts/" and run "gunzip *.gz"
- Run "pip install -r requirements.txt" to download all the necessary Python libraries (with the versions we are using)
Note: You may encounter installation issues. In such case, refer to the Guide for Installation or Compatibility issues (.txt file)
For ST-Net, HisToGene, TCGN:
- Train: Run ST_train.py and choose the model you wish to use. The model will conduct training and save checkpoints once completed.
- Test: Run ST_predict.py and choose the model you wish to use. Results printed are shown in metrics (printed in cmd line) and figures (imgs saved in the "figures" folder)
For DeepPT: (To be updated)
Integrating spatial gene expression and breast tumour morphology via deep learning
by Bryan He, Ludvig Bergenstråhle, Linnea Stenbeck, Abubakar Abid, Alma Andersson, Åke Borg, Jonas Maaskola, Joakim Lundeberg & James Zou.
Nature Biomedical Engineering (2020).
Since the code provided in their GitHub has been deprecated, we referred to the re-implemented versions from authors of HisToGene to reproduce our own re-implemented version of ST-Net
Leveraging information in spatial transcriptomics to predict super-resolution gene expression from histology images in tumors
by Minxing Pang, Kenong Su, Mingyao Li.
biorxiv (2021).
A deep-learning framework to predict cancer treatment response from histopathology images through imputed transcriptomics
by Hoang, DT., Dinstag, G., Shulman, E.D. et al.
Nature Cancer (2024).
Transformer with Convolution and Graph-Node co-embedding: A accurate and interpretable vision backbone for predicting gene expressions from local histopathological image
by Xiao Xiao, Yan Kong, Zuoheng Wang, Hui Lu.
Medical Image Analysis (2024).