The evidence from eight recent studies supports a staged pipeline for deep learning in cell dynamics: (1) weakly supervised segmentation using LACSS with image-level annotations and LOIs, achieving AP50 β0.93 on fluorescence data and 0.82β0.93 on most LIVECell lines, but degrading to 0.43 for SHSY5Y morphology ; (2) multimodal foundation modeling β CAPTAIN integrates 4.2M co-assayed RNA/protein cells with dual-encoder Transformers and cross-attention for zero-shot protein inference , while scPair accelerates RNAβATAC mapping via implicit feature selection ; (3) label-free dynamic imaging β holographic image flow cytometry reveals a measurable accuracyβspeed Pareto frontier .
For survival/trajectory modeling, SCMO (SELU architecture, 512-512-1024-256, dropout 0.15) achieves C-index 0.762 with AUC 0.752β0.869 across horizons, outperforming RSF, SVM, GBM, CoxBoost, and DeepOmix .
Recommended workflow: LACSS β CellProfiler/scanpy QC β CAPTAIN or scPair multimodal integration β TMEnet/label-free classification β SCMO-style prognostic modeling, with explicit LOU cross-validation and Pareto-front evaluation at each stage.
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