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The multi-label proteins that simultaneously reside in or move between more than one subcellular structure usually involve with complex cellular processes. Currently, the subcellular location annotations of proteins in most studies and databases are descriptive terms, which fail to capture the protein amount or fractions across different locations. This highly limits the understanding of complex spatial distribution and functional mechanism of multi-label proteins. Thus, quantitatively analyzing the multiplex location patterns of proteins is an urgent and challenging task.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this study, we developed a deep-learning-based pattern unmixing pipeline for protein subcellular localization (DULoc) to quantitatively estimate the fractions of proteins localizing in different subcellular compartments from immunofluorescence images. This model used a deep convolutional neural network to construct feature representations, and combined multiple nonlinear decomposing algorithms as the pattern unmixing method. Our experimental results showed that the DULoc can achieve over 0.93 correlation between estimated and true fractions on both real and synthetic datasets. 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