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ArticleAdvances in neural information processing systems2024

STimage-1K4M: A histopathology image-gene expression dataset for spatial transcriptomics.

Jiawen Chen, Muqing Zhou, Wenrong Wu, Jinwei Zhang, Yun Li, Didong Li

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Article in Advances in neural information processing systems, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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6 authors.

Jiawen ChenUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Muqing ZhouUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wenrong WuUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jinwei ZhangUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Yun LiUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Didong LiUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funding

North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)UM1TR004406 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI NICHOLAS J SHAHEEN · 2023 to 2026
$37.5M
Preclinical CoreP50HD103573 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Mark D Shen · 2020 to 2026
$9.7M
Beyond GWAS: High Throughput Functional Genomics & Epigenome Editing to Elucidate the Effects of Genetic Associations for SchizophreniaR01MH125236 · NIMH · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CRAWFORD, GREGORY E, GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2021 to 2025
$8.1M
Study of Selective Cell and System Vulnerability in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG079291 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Li Gan, Yun Li · 2023 to 2026
$5.4M
Polygenic risk scores for cardiometabolic disorders: the role of blood cells immune response and evolutionary adaptationU01HG011720 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Yun Li, ALEXANDER P REINER · 2021 to 2026
$5.4M
Semiparametric Analysis of Big Censored DataR01HL149683 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIN, DANYU · 2020 to 2023
$1.9M
Novel Deep Learning Tools for Clinical Decision Support in Postoperative Pain ManagementR56LM013784 · NLM · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ZOU, BAIMING · 2022 to 2023
$832k
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Abstract

Recent advances in multi-modal algorithms have driven and been driven by the increasing availability of large image-text datasets, leading to significant strides in various fields, including computational pathology. However, in most existing medical image-text datasets, the text typically provides high-level summaries that may not sufficiently describe sub-tile regions within a large pathology image. For example, an image might cover an extensive tissue area containing cancerous and healthy regions, but the accompanying text might only specify that this image is a cancer slide, lacking the nuanced details needed for in-depth analysis. In this study, we introduce STimage-1K4M, a novel dataset designed to bridge this gap by providing genomic features for sub-tile images. STimage-1K4M contains 1,149 images derived from spatial transcriptomics data, which captures gene expression information at the level of individual spatial spots within a pathology image. Specifically, each image in the dataset is broken down into smaller sub-image tiles, with each tile paired with 15,000 - 30,000 dimensional gene expressions. With 4,293,195 pairs of sub-tile images and gene expressions, STimage-1K4M offers unprecedented granularity, paving the way for a wide range of advanced research in multi-modal data analysis an innovative applications in computational pathology, and beyond.

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