PhenoProfiler: Advancing Phenotypic Learning for Image-based Drug Discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19568v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:20:43 GMT
• Title: PhenoProfiler: Advancing Phenotypic Learning for Image-based Drug Discovery
• Authors: Bo Li, Bob Zhang, Chengyang Zhang, Minghao Zhou, Weiliang Huang, Shihang Wang, Qing Wang, Mengran Li, Yong Zhang, Qianqian Song,
• Abstract summary: PhenoProfiler is an end-to-end tool that processes whole-slide multi-channel images directly into low-dimensional quantitative representations.<n>It is rigorously evaluated on large-scale publicly available datasets.<n> PhenoProfiler consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 20%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: In the field of image-based drug discovery, capturing the phenotypic response of cells to various drug treatments and perturbations is a crucial step. However, existing methods require computationally extensive and complex multi-step procedures, which can introduce inefficiencies, limit generalizability, and increase potential errors. To address these challenges, we present PhenoProfiler, an innovative model designed to efficiently and effectively extract morphological representations, enabling the elucidation of phenotypic changes induced by treatments. PhenoProfiler is designed as an end-to-end tool that processes whole-slide multi-channel images directly into low-dimensional quantitative representations, eliminating the extensive computational steps required by existing methods. It also includes a multi-objective learning module to enhance robustness, accuracy, and generalization in morphological representation learning. PhenoProfiler is rigorously evaluated on large-scale publicly available datasets, including over 230,000 whole-slide multi-channel images in end-to-end scenarios and more than 8.42 million single-cell images in non-end-to-end settings. Across these benchmarks, PhenoProfiler consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 20%, demonstrating substantial improvements in both accuracy and robustness. Furthermore, PhenoProfiler uses a tailored phenotype correction strategy to emphasize relative phenotypic changes under treatments, facilitating the detection of biologically meaningful signals. UMAP visualizations of treatment profiles demonstrate PhenoProfiler ability to effectively cluster treatments with similar biological annotations, thereby enhancing interpretability. These findings establish PhenoProfiler as a scalable, generalizable, and robust tool for phenotypic learning.

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