Given multi-type point maps from different place-types (e.g., tumor regions), researchers aim to develop a classifier trained on the source place-type to accurately distinguish between two classes of the target place-type based on their point arrangements.
The challenge lies in the spatial variability and inherent heterogeneity observed in spatial properties or arrangements across different place-types.
The proposed multi-task self-learning framework targets spatial arrangements, utilizing techniques such as spatial mix-up masking and spatial contrastive predictive coding.
Experimental results on real-world datasets, specifically oncology data, demonstrate that the framework provides higher prediction accuracy compared to baseline methods.