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ArticleGenome biology2026

MicNet: integrating spatially resolved transcriptomes and pathology images by contrastive deep neural network.

Shidan Wang, Qin Zhou, Yuansheng Zhou, Peiran Quan, Xue Xiao, Zifan Gu, Lei Guo, Yueshuang Xu, Danni Luo, Ruichen Rong and 5 more

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Article in Genome biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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15 authors.

Shidan Wang *Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Qin Zhou *Quantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Yuansheng ZhouQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Peiran QuanQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Xue XiaoQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Zifan GuQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Lei GuoQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Yueshuang XuQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Danni LuoQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Ruichen RongQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Xiaowei ZhanQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Tao WangQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Lin XuQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA. Lin.Xu@utsouthwestern.edu.
Guanghua XiaoQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA. Guanghua.Xiao@utsouthwestern.edu.
Yang XieQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA. Yang.Xie@utsouthwestern.edu.

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS--SPORE IN LUNG CANCERP50CA070907 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI GIBBONS, DON LYNN · 1996 to 2024
$57.4M
Developing computational algorithms for histopathological image analysisR01GM140012 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI XIAO, GUANGHUA · 2021 to 2024
$1.6M
Antibiotic Resistance Determination Utilizing Machine LearningU01AI169298 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI GREENBERG, DAVID ELIHU, ZHAN, XIAOWEI · 2022 to 2024
$1.4M
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas RP180805Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas RP230330National Institutes of Health,United States U01AI169298NCI NIH HHS P50 CA070907NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI169298NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140012NIH HHS 1R01GM140012NIH HHS P50CA70907
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent breakthroughs in spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies have enabled molecular characterization of cells while preserving spatial and morphological contexts. However, integrating transcriptomic profiles and pathology images remains a challenge. Here, we developed a novel unsupervised representation learning method, MicNet, to project pathology image and transcriptomic data onto a shared representative domain for biological interpretation. MicNet maximizes the correlation between image and molecular features from the same sample while minimizing it for different samples. MicNet outperformed existing approaches in multiple analysis tasks, including spatial domain detection, spatially variable gene identification, and spatial organization visualization.

Indexed as

Deep LearningImage Processing, Computer-AssistedNeural Networks, ComputerTranscriptomeAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingHumansSpatial TranscriptomicsUnsupervised Machine LearningDeep learningMulti-omicsPathology imagesRepresentation learningSpatial transcriptomics

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PMID42271481
PMCPMC13495361

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