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Main Authors: Pang, Fengqian, Lei, Chunyue, Zhao, Hongfei, Liu, Chenghao, Xing, Zhiqiang, Wang, Huafeng, Ye, Chuyang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07663
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author Pang, Fengqian
Lei, Chunyue
Zhao, Hongfei
Liu, Chenghao
Xing, Zhiqiang
Wang, Huafeng
Ye, Chuyang
author_facet Pang, Fengqian
Lei, Chunyue
Zhao, Hongfei
Liu, Chenghao
Xing, Zhiqiang
Wang, Huafeng
Ye, Chuyang
contents Drug Mechanism of Action (MoA) mainly investigates how drug molecules interact with cells, which is crucial for drug discovery and clinical application. Recently, deep learning models have been used to recognize MoA by relying on high-content and fluorescence images of cells exposed to various drugs. However, these methods focus on spatial characteristics while overlooking the temporal dynamics of live cells. Time-lapse imaging is more suitable for observing the cell response to drugs. Additionally, drug molecules can trigger cellular dynamic variations related to specific MoA. This indicates that the drug molecule modality may complement the image counterpart. This paper proposes MolCLIP, the first visual language model to combine microscopic cell video- and molecule-modalities. MolCLIP designs a molecule-auxiliary CLIP framework to guide video features in learning the distribution of the molecular latent space. Furthermore, we integrate a metric learning strategy with MolCLIP to optimize the aggregation of video features. Experimental results on the MitoDataset demonstrate that MolCLIP achieves improvements of 51.2% and 20.5% in mAP for drug identification and MoA recognition, respectively.
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spellingShingle MolCLIP: A Molecular-Auxiliary CLIP Framework for Identifying Drug Mechanism of Action Based on Time-Lapsed Mitochondrial Images
Pang, Fengqian
Lei, Chunyue
Zhao, Hongfei
Liu, Chenghao
Xing, Zhiqiang
Wang, Huafeng
Ye, Chuyang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Drug Mechanism of Action (MoA) mainly investigates how drug molecules interact with cells, which is crucial for drug discovery and clinical application. Recently, deep learning models have been used to recognize MoA by relying on high-content and fluorescence images of cells exposed to various drugs. However, these methods focus on spatial characteristics while overlooking the temporal dynamics of live cells. Time-lapse imaging is more suitable for observing the cell response to drugs. Additionally, drug molecules can trigger cellular dynamic variations related to specific MoA. This indicates that the drug molecule modality may complement the image counterpart. This paper proposes MolCLIP, the first visual language model to combine microscopic cell video- and molecule-modalities. MolCLIP designs a molecule-auxiliary CLIP framework to guide video features in learning the distribution of the molecular latent space. Furthermore, we integrate a metric learning strategy with MolCLIP to optimize the aggregation of video features. Experimental results on the MitoDataset demonstrate that MolCLIP achieves improvements of 51.2% and 20.5% in mAP for drug identification and MoA recognition, respectively.
title MolCLIP: A Molecular-Auxiliary CLIP Framework for Identifying Drug Mechanism of Action Based on Time-Lapsed Mitochondrial Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07663