An Integrated Deep Learning and Statistical Framework for Whole-Network Gene--Environment Association with Leaf Vascular Architecture

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.22763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leaf veins exhibit remarkable diversity in architecture and patterning, yet existing gene--environment association studies have primarily quantified leaf venation using a small collection of low-dimensional summary traits, thereby discarding most of the structural information contained in the original images. We propose an integrated deep learning and statistical framework. The proposed framework achieves four methodological advances. First, it represents the complete leaf vascular architecture as a whole-network image phenotype. Second, it fine-tunes the deep learning-based Edge Detection with Transformers (EDTER) model to accurately extract whole-network leaf vascular architecture from RGB images by jointly learning local and global context