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Kota Itahashi

National Cancer Centre JapanORCID 0000-0002-1676-8466Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:contrastive learning· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1

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Fumiko ChiwakiiD· 1 shared Haruka HiroseiD· 1 shared Hiroyuki ManoiD· 1 shared Kazuya Nishimura· 1 shared Masato Ishikawa· 1 shared Shuto HayashiiD· 1 shared Teppei ShimamuraiD· 1 shared Yasuhiro KojimaiD· 1 shared

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Probabilistic coupling of cellular and microenvironmental heterogeneity by masked self-supervised learning

Yasuhiro Kojima, Yosuke Tanaka, Haruka Hirose, Fumiko Chiwaki, Kazuya Nishimura, Shuto Hayashi, Kota Itahashi, Masato Ishikawa, Teppei Shimamura, Hiroyuki Mano

Mievformer uses masked self-supervised learning to model microenvironmental and cellular heterogeneity in spatial transcriptomics data, outperforming existing methods in niche clustering and real dataset analysis.

bioRxiv · Apr 24, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics