arxivq-bio.QMcs.CVcs.LG2026-07-15
A vision foundation model for single-cell biology via spatial gene cartography
Ridvan Yesiloglu, Sakib Mostafa, James Zou, Ash Alizadeh, Jiajun Wu, Lei Xing, et al.
Most single-cell foundation models are adapted from language models, representing each cell as a sequence of gene tokens. This discards the relationships among genes and often the magnitude of their expression. We present scVision, a vision foundation model that instead renders e…