“…However, instead of using CellProfiler features to represent the cell profile images, Sanchez-Fernandez et al ( Sanchez-Fernandez et al, 2023 ) operate on images directly during model training. To evaluate the information content of the embeddings, the authors tried to retrieve images with compounds and vice versa , just like Nguyen et al ( Nguyen et al, 2023 ). On a hold-out dataset of 2115 compound-image pairs, CLOOME was able to correctly retrieve the compound from the image in 3.8% of the cases, and retrieve the image from the compound in 3.2% of the cases.…”