Visual omics · spatial evidence · atlas retrieval

From routine histology to spatial molecular evidence

HistAgent reads local and contextual H&E morphology and predicts an ordered list of genes for each tissue location. The rankings support spatial analysis, atlas search and tissue-specific questions.

Renal cell carcinoma tissue section used in the HistAgent TLS case study
Renal cell carcinoma TLS example A tissue section and ranked genes from the TLS tutorial. IGKC IGHG1 COL1A1 CD74
2.23Mpaired H&E and ST tissue locations
936human and mouse slides
32canonical tissue categories
Top 50genes generated per location

Three ways to use HistAgent

Learn, analyze and retrieve

Follow the runnable tutorials, generate ranked molecular readouts and discuss measured evidence, or retrieve related spatial molecular states from the reference evidence bank.

HistAgent visual-omics foundation model and spatial agentic module
HistAgent model and spatial analysis workflow.

Method at a glance

A ranked molecular readout from H&E

HistAgent receives a spot-centered H&E crop, a larger contextual crop and tissue metadata, then produces an ordered list of genes for downstream spatial analysis.

  • Dual-scale morphologyLocal and contextual views share a GigaPath encoder and retain distinct spatial roles.
  • Autoregressive generationThe decoder produces up to 50 non-repeating gene symbols in rank order.
  • Downstream analysisRanked genes support cell-state scoring, pathway analysis and spatial neighborhood comparisons.

Tutorial sequence

Five tutorials

Each notebook combines explanation, runnable code and outputs. Pretrained models are provided where training would take too long for a tutorial.