Contrastive and Adaptive Multi-modal Masked Autoencoder for Spatial Transcriptomics
Researchers propose CAMMST, a Masked Autoencoder framework that predicts gene expression from histology images by leveraging small amounts of spatial transcriptomics data as genetic anchors. The method combines visual and genetic modalities through contrastive learning, achieving superior performance with minimal transcriptomic coverage and addressing the cost limitations of spatial transcriptomics profiling.