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Poster

MorphoDiff: Cellular Morphology Painting with Diffusion Models

Zeinab Navidi · Jun Ma · Esteban Miglietta · Le Liu · Anne Carpenter · Beth Cimini · Benjamin Haibe-Kains · BO WANG

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #14
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Sat 26 Apr midnight PDT — 2:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Understanding cellular responses to external stimuli is critical for parsing biological mechanisms and advancing therapeutic development. High-content image-based assays provide a cost-effective approach to examine cellular phenotypes induced by diverse interventions, which offers valuable insights into biological processes and cellular states. We introduce MorphoDiff, a generative pipeline to predict high-resolution cell morphological responses under different conditions based on perturbation encoding. To the best of our knowledge, MorphoDiff is the first framework capable of producing guided, high-resolution predictions of cell morphology that generalize across both chemical and genetic interventions. The model integrates perturbation embeddings as guiding signals within a 2D latent diffusion model. The comprehensive computational, biological, and visual validations across three open-source Cell Painting datasets show that MorphoDiff can generate high-fidelity images and produce meaningful biology signals under various interventions. We envision the model will facilitate efficient in silico exploration of perturbational landscapes towards more effective drug discovery studies.

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