DeepSpot

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A luminous blue tunnel with digital numbers creating a futuristic, sci-fi ambiance.

Kalin Klonchev – the winner of a competition for AI based data analysis from Broad in 2024 had also created a tool called DeepSpot. Worth looking at for spot analysis of H&E sections by converting a full H&E slide pictures to “spots” which are analyzed.

Some good links:

DeepSpot paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.09.25321567v1

DeepSpot GitHub repository: https://github.com/ratschlab/DeepSpot

DeepSpot2cell: for analysis of single cell data: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678121v1

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