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ArticleNature communications2024

Detecting anomalous anatomic regions in spatial transcriptomics with STANDS.

Kaichen Xu, Yan Lu, Suyang Hou, Kainan Liu, Yihang Du, Mengqian Huang, Hao Feng, Hao Wu, Xiaobo Sun

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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Kaichen Xu *School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073, China.ORCID 0009-0001-1768-1303
Yan LuSchool of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073, China.ORCID 0009-0006-6492-2321
Suyang HouSchool of Information Engineering, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073, China.
Kainan LiuInformation Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 510000, China.
Yihang DuSchool of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073, China.
Mengqian HuangSchool of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073, China.
Hao FengDepartment of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2243-9949
Hao WuFaculty of Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1269-7354
Xiaobo Sun *School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073, China. xsun@zuel.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9876-5666

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Abstract

Detection and Dissection of Anomalous Tissue Domains (DDATD) from multi-sample spatial transcriptomics (ST) data provides unprecedented opportunities to characterize anomalous tissue domains (ATDs), revealing both population-level and individual-specific pathogenic factors for understanding pathogenic heterogeneities behind diseases. However, no current methods can perform de novo DDATD from ST data, especially in the multi-sample context. Here, we introduce STANDS, an innovative framework based on Generative Adversarial Networks which integrates three core tasks in multi-sample DDATD: detecting, aligning, and subtyping ATDs. STANDS incorporates multimodal-learning, transfer-learning, and style-transfer techniques to effectively address major challenges in multi-sample DDATD, including complications caused by unalignable ATDs, under-utilization of multimodal information, and scarcity of normal ST datasets necessary for comparative analysis. Extensive benchmarks from diverse datasets demonstrate STAND's superiority in identifying both common and individual-specific ATDs and further dissecting them into biologically distinct subdomains. STANDS also provides clues to developing ATDs visually indistinguishable from surrounding normal tissues.

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TranscriptomeAlgorithmsComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingHumans

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