ArticleNature biomedical engineering2026
Multiparametric cellular and spatial organization in cancer tissue lesions with a streamlined pipeline.
Article in Nature biomedical engineering, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Tumor-Promoting Inflammatory SPP1+ Macrophage-IL6-CRP Axis Drives Immune Dysfunction in Bladder Cancer.Cancer discovery · 2026Article
- Humoral IgG1 responses to tumor antigens underpin clinical outcomes in immune checkpoint blockade.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
23 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Multiplex immunostaining analysis remains fragmented, underperforming and labour intensive despite tissue proteomic methodologies achieving ever-increasing marker complexity. Here we propose an open-source, user-guided automated pipeline that streamlines start-to-finish, single-cell resolution analysis of whole-slide tissue, named multiplex-imaging analysis, registration, quantification and overlaying (MARQO). MARQO integrates elastic image registration, iterative nuclear segmentation, unsupervised clustering with mini-batch k-means and user-guided cell classification through a graphical interface. We compare and validate MARQO using multiplexed immunohistochemical consecutive staining on a single slide using human tumour and adjacent normal tissue samples. Performance is compared with manually curated pathologist determinations and quantification of multiple markers. We optimize MARQO to analyse diverse tissue sizes from whole tissue, biopsy, and tissue microarray and staining approaches, such as singleplex immunohistochemistry and 20-colour multiplex immunofluorescence, to determine marker co-expression patterns in multiple human solid cancer types. Lastly, we validate CD8
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.