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ArticleCell systems2024

Accurate single-molecule spot detection for image-based spatial transcriptomics with weakly supervised deep learning.

Emily Laubscher, Xuefei Wang, Nitzan Razin, Tom Dougherty, Rosalind J Xu, Lincoln Ombelets, Edward Pao, William Graf, Jeffrey R Moffitt, Yisong Yue and 1 more

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Article in Cell systems, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Emily LaubscherDivision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Xuefei WangDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Nitzan RazinDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Tom DoughertyDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Rosalind J XuProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA.
Lincoln OmbeletsDivision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Edward PaoDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
William GrafDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Jeffrey R MoffittProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Yisong YueDivision of Computational and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
David Van ValenDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA. Electronic address: vanvalen@caltech.edu.

Funding

Unraveling the genetic basis of cellular behaviors with deep learning and imaging-based reverse geneticsDP2GM149556 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI VAN VALEN, DAVID A · 2022 to 2025
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NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM149556
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Image-based spatial transcriptomics methods enable transcriptome-scale gene expression measurements with spatial information but require complex, manually tuned analysis pipelines. We present Polaris, an analysis pipeline for image-based spatial transcriptomics that combines deep-learning models for cell segmentation and spot detection with a probabilistic gene decoder to quantify single-cell gene expression accurately. Polaris offers a unifying, turnkey solution for analyzing spatial transcriptomics data from multiplexed error-robust FISH (MERFISH), sequential fluorescence in situ hybridization (seqFISH), or in situ RNA sequencing (ISS) experiments. Polaris is available through the DeepCell software library (https://github.com/vanvalenlab/deepcell-spots) and https://www.deepcell.org.

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Deep LearningGene Expression ProfilingIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceTranscriptomeAnimalsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSingle-Cell AnalysisSingle Molecule ImagingSoftwareSupervised Machine Learningdeep learningimage analysisspatial transcriptomicsspot detection

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PMID38754367
PMCPMC11995858

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