arXiv:2608.14293cs.CVcs.LG2026-08中稿 · the BioImage Compu…

用分子结构预测药物引起的细胞表型变化,提升跨批次比较准确性。

Conditional Neural Optimal Transport for Predicting Cellular Phenotypes from Molecular Structure

论文配图:Conditional Neural Optimal Transport for Predicting Cellular Phenotypes from Molecular Structure
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  • 基于分子结构条件的神经最优传输模型,将对照表型转为处理后表型。
  • 在未见活性分子上表现优于基线,跨批次差异减少37%以上。
  • 适合药物发现与高通量筛选场景,需配合高质量分子表征。

高内涵显微镜可系统性地分析化学扰动下的细胞响应,但化学空间规模庞大,全面表型表征实验上不可行。因此需要计算模型,在不获取实际处理细胞的情况下预测图像衍生的表型。本文将分子诱导表型预测建模为图像表示空间中的归纳条件运输问题:给定阴性对照表型和分子结构,预测对应分子诱导的表型。我们评估了经典最优传输基线,发现静态匹配在大规模表型图像数据集上无法生成有效预测。随后提出分子条件神经最优传输(NOT)模型,采用Monge-Gap正则化训练目标,利用分子结构作为条件信息,学习将阴性对照未扰动表型向扰动表型迁移。NOT能恢复分子特异性表型效应,同时降低显微镜相关的技术变异性,从而促进跨实验批次比较。在未见活性分子上,模型性能超越基线方法,表明化学条件传输可泛化至训练中未见分子。我们发现分子编码器是泛化能力的主要瓶颈,而在压缩表示空间中进行传输可提升性能与可扩展性。这些结果确立了NOT作为从分子结构与阴性对照表型预测细胞表型的有力框架,并强调开发更具信息量的分子表征是提升分布外性能的关键方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

High-content microscopy enables systematic profiling of cellular responses to chemical perturbations, but the scale of the chemical space makes exhaustive phenotypic characterization experimentally infeasible. This motivates computational models that can predict image-derived phenotypes without acquiring the corresponding treated cells. We formulate molecule-induced phenotype prediction as an inductive conditional transport problem in image representation space. Given a negative-control phenotype and the structure of a molecule, we aim to predict the phenotype induced by the corresponding molecule. We first evaluate classical optimal transport baselines and show that static couplings do not yield useful predictions on large-scale phenotypic image datasets. We then introduce a molecule-conditioned Neural Optimal Transport (NOT) model with a Monge-Gap regularization training objective that learns to transport negative-control unperturbed phenotypes toward perturbed phenotypes using molecular structure as conditioning information. NOT recovers molecule-specific phenotypic effects while reducing microscopy-associated technical variation, thereby facilitating comparisons across experimental batches. On unseen active molecules, the model outperforms baseline approaches, demonstrating that chemically conditioned transport can generalize beyond the molecules observed during training. We identified the molecular encoder as the main limitation to this generalization, while transport in a compressed representation space improves performance and scalability. These results establish NOT as a promising framework for predicting cellular phenotypes from molecular structure and negative-control phenotypes, while highlighting the development of more informative molecular representations as a key direction for improving out-of-distribution performance.

表型预测神经传输药物发现

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