Self-supervised vision transformers accurately decode cellular state heterogeneity
Pfaendler, R.; Hanimann, J.; Lee, S.; Snijder, B.
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Characterising cellular phenotypic heterogeneity is essential to understand the relationship between the molecular and morphological determinants of cellular state. Here we report that publicly available self-supervised vision transformers (ss-ViTs) accurately elucidate phenotypic stem cell heterogeneity out-of-the-box. Moreover, we introduce scDINO, an adapted ss-ViT trained on five-channel automated microscopy data, attaining excellent performance in delineating peripheral blood immune cell identity. Thus, ss-ViTs represent a leap forward in the unsupervised analysis of phenotypic heterogeneity.
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