arXiv:2606.03644cs.LG2026-06

用空间转录组引导病理模型,让显微镜图像读懂基因变化。

Spatial Transcriptomics-Guided Alignment Enhances Molecular Profiling in Pathology Foundation Model

论文配图:Spatial Transcriptomics-Guided Alignment Enhances Molecular Profiling in Pathology Foundation Model
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  • 用空间转录组数据对齐组织图像与分子信息,建立形态与基因的精准关联。
  • 构建180万组配对数据集,实现显微图像与分子谱的高精度匹配。
  • 适合做肿瘤分子分型、病理智能分析的研究者和临床医生使用。

全面分子谱分析对现代精准肿瘤学至关重要,但受限于高昂成本、样本耗尽及漫长周转时间。尽管病理基础模型(PFM)已展现从常规苏木精-伊红(H&E)全切片图像(WSI)推断分子表型的潜力,现有架构主要依赖视觉自监督学习或视觉-语言对齐,缺乏连接细微形态特征与潜在基因改变所需的时空分子监督。空间转录组学(ST)技术可在完整组织切片中实现转录组定量,从而保留组织学与分子谱之间的精确空间关联。本研究提出一种空间转录组引导的分子谱分析框架(STAMP),赋予PFM内在的分子感知能力。为支持该范式,我们构建了人类空间转录组数据集HumanST-1k,覆盖多种解剖器官与测序平台。该图谱包含180万对H&E图像块与对应转录组谱,建立了组织结构与其分子状态的关联语料库。为缓解原始转录组的技术噪声,STAMP采用通路导向对齐策略,将转录组数据聚合为生物学功能通路,并通过参数高效微调融入PFM。该对齐策略丰富了PFM的表征空间,使其能够识别亚视觉水平的分子特征。这些增强表征的临床价值通过多层级评估框架得到验证。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Comprehensive molecular profiling is essential for modern precision oncology but remains hindered by prohibitive costs, specimen exhaustion, and protracted turnaround times. While pathology foundation models (PFMs) have demonstrated potential for inferring molecular phenotypes from routine hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) whole-slide images (WSIs), current architectures primarily rely on vision-centric self-supervised learning or vision-language alignment, lacking the spatially resolved molecular supervision required to connect subtle morphological features with underlying genomic alterations. Spatial transcriptomics (ST) emerges as a transformative technology that enables transcriptomic quantification within intact tissue sections, thereby preserving the precise spatial link between histology and molecular profiles. In this study, we present a Spatial Transcriptomics-guided Alignment framework for Molecular Profiling (STAMP), which endows PFMs with intrinsic molecular awareness. To support this paradigm, we curated HumanST-1k, a human ST dataset spanning diverse anatomical organs and sequencing platforms. This atlas yields 1.8 million pairs of H&E patches and corresponding transcriptomic profiles, providing a corpus that links histological structures with their molecular states. To mitigate the technical noise inherent to raw transcriptomics, STAMP applies a pathway-informed alignment strategy that aggregates transcriptomic data into biologically functional pathways, which are subsequently integrated into PFMs via parameter-efficient fine-tuning. This alignment enriches the representation space of PFMs and unlocks their capacity to resolve sub-visual molecular signatures. The clinical utility of these augmented representations was validated through a multi-tier evaluation framework.

病理模型空间转录组分子分型医学影像

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