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# HEST-Library: Bringing Spatial Transcriptomics and Histopathology together
## Designed for querying and assembling HEST-1k dataset
-\[ [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16192) | [HEST-1k](https://huggingface.co/datasets/MahmoodLab/hest) \]
+\[ [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16192) | [Download](https://huggingface.co/datasets/MahmoodLab/hest) | [Documentation](https://hest.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) | [Tutorials](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/HEST/tree/main/tutorials) \]
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-Welcome to the official GitHub repository of the HEST-Library introduced in *"HEST-1k: A Dataset for Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis"*. This project was developed by the [Mahmood Lab](https://faisal.ai/) at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
+Welcome to the official GitHub repository of the HEST-Library introduced in *"HEST-1k: A Dataset for Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis", NeurIPS Spotlight, 2024*. This project was developed by the [Mahmood Lab](https://faisal.ai/) at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
HEST-1k, HEST-Library, and HEST-Benchmark are released under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
### What does this repository provide?
-- **HEST-1k:** Free access to HEST-1K, a dataset of 1,108 paired Spatial Transcriptomics samples with HE-stained whole-slide images
+- **HEST-1k:** Free access to HEST-1K, a dataset of 1,229 paired Spatial Transcriptomics samples with HE-stained whole-slide images
- **HEST-Library:** A series of helpers to assemble new ST samples (ST, Visium, Visium HD, Xenium) and work with HEST-1k (ST analysis, batch effect viz and correction, etc.)
- **HEST-Benchmark:** A new benchmark to assess the predictive performance of foundation models for histology in predicting gene expression from morphology
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## Updates
+- **21.10.24**: HEST has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024 as a Spotlight! We will be in Vancouver from Dec 10th to 15th. Send us a message if you wanna learn more about HEST (gjaume@bwh.harvard.edu).
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- **23.09.24**: 121 new samples released, including 27 Xenium and 7 Visium HD! We also make the aligned Xenium transcripts + the aligned DAPI segmented cells/nuclei public.
- **30.08.24**: HEST-Benchmark results updated. Includes H-Optimus-0, Virchow 2, Virchow, and GigaPath. New COAD task based on 4 Xenium samples. HuggingFace bench data have been updated.
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If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:
```
-@article{jaume2024hest,
- author = {Jaume, Guillaume and Doucet, Paul and Song, Andrew H. and Lu, Ming Y. and Almagro-Perez, Cristina and Wagner, Sophia J. and Vaidya, Anurag J. and Chen, Richard J. and Williamson, Drew F. K. and Kim, Ahrong and Mahmood, Faisal},
- title = {{HEST-1k: A Dataset for Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = {2024},
- month = jun,
- eprint = {2406.16192},
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16192v1}
+@inproceedings{jaume2024hest,
+ author = {Guillaume Jaume and Paul Doucet and Andrew H. Song and Ming Y. Lu and Cristina Almagro-Perez and Sophia J. Wagner and Anurag J. Vaidya and Richard J. Chen and Drew F. K. Williamson and Ahrong Kim and Faisal Mahmood},
+ title = {HEST-1k: A Dataset for Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis},
+ booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
+ year = {2024},
+ month = dec,
}
+
```
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