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ST2HE: enhancing spatial transcriptomics interpretability via virtual staining for histological annotation.

Zhentao Liu¹, Arun Das^2,3, Wen Meng^2,4

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

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Summary

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We developed ST2HE, a novel framework generating virtual histology images from spatial transcriptomics data. This tool enhances tissue annotation and analysis for computational pathology applications.

Keywords:

computational pathology generative models interpretability spatial transcriptomics virtual histology

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Area of Science:

Computational pathology
Bioinformatics
Genomics

Background:

High-resolution spatial transcriptomics (HR-ST) provides deep tissue architecture insights.
Standardized histological annotation frameworks for HR-ST data are currently lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce ST2HE, a cross-platform generative framework for synthesizing virtual hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) images from HR-ST data.
To enable histologically informative image generation across diverse tissue types and HR-ST platforms.

Main Methods:

ST2HE integrates nuclei morphology and spatial transcript coordinates using a one-step diffusion model.
Conditional and tissue-independent variants were developed to support known and novel tissue contexts.
Evaluations were performed on breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and Kaposi's sarcoma datasets.

Main Results:

ST2HE successfully preserves morphological features and supports downstream annotations of tissue histology.
The framework enables accurate phenotype classification from synthesized H&E images.
Ablation studies identified key parameters like context windows and loss functions that enhance image fidelity.

Conclusions:

ST2HE bridges the gap between molecular and histological data domains.
The framework offers interpretable and scalable annotation of HR-ST data.
ST2HE advances computational pathology by integrating spatial transcriptomics with histological visualization.