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ArticleGenome biology2025

Vispro improves imaging analysis for Visium spatial transcriptomics.

Huifang Ma, Xingyuan Zhang, Yilong Qu, Anru R Zhang, Zhicheng Ji

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Article in Genome biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Improving Image Quality in 10× Visium Spatial Transcriptomics Using Vispro.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  4. Computer Vision Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics: A Survey.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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Huifang MaDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Xingyuan ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Yilong QuDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Anru R ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Zhicheng JiDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. zhicheng.ji@duke.edu.

Funding

The Duke Senescent Cell Evaluations in Normal Tissues (SCENT) Mapping CenterU54AG075936 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI NIXON, ANDREW B. · 2021 to 2025
$12.7M
Integrated Detection and Classification of Sepsis via Tensor Methods Using EHRR01HL169347 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Anru Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Computational methods for in situ spatial transcriptomicsR35GM154865 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Zhicheng Ji · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL169347NIA NIH HHS U54 AG075936NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM154865NIH HHS R35GM154865NIH HHS U54AG075936NSF CAREER-2203741
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial transcriptomics enables spatially resolved gene expression analysis, but accompanying histology images are often degraded by fiducial markers and background regions, hindering interpretation. To address this, we introduce Vispro, an end-to-end automated image processing tool optimized for 10× Visium data. Vispro includes modules for fiducial marker detection, image restoration, tissue region detection, and segmentation of disconnected tissue areas. By enhancing image quality, Vispro improves the accuracy and performance of downstream analyses, including tissue and cell segmentation, image registration, gene expression imputation guided by histological context, and spatial domain detection.

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Gene Expression ProfilingImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSoftwareTranscriptomeHumans

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PMID40533768
PMCPMC12177973

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