ALHENA, an H&E encoder distilled from transcriptomic foundation models for multi-scale slide analysis
Félicie Giraud-Sauveur, Quentin Blampey, Pierre Marza, Hakim Benkirane, Maria Vakalopoulou, Paul-Henry Cournède, Stergios Christodoulidis
ALHENA improves transcriptomic signature prediction and cell-type separability using H&E images alone, without requiring spatial transcriptomics data.
bioRxiv · Oct 25, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics