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AMICI: Attention Mechanism Interpretation of Cell-cell Interactions.

Justin Hong, Khushi Desai, Tu Duyen Nguyen, Achille Nazaret, Nathan Levy, Can Ergen, George Plitas, Elham Azizi

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Justin HongDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2115-9101
Khushi DesaiDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-3024-8406
Tu Duyen NguyenIrving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Achille NazaretDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5428-9810
Nathan LevyDepartment of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISR.ORCID 0009-0005-8238-3926
Can ErgenDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3096-2927
George PlitasImmunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
Elham AziziDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5059-6971

Funding

Machine learning methods for interpreting spatial multi-omics dataR01HG012875 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Elham Azizi · 2023 to 2026
$1.7M
Integrative framework for identifying dysregulated mechanisms in the tumor-immune microenvironmentR00CA230195 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI AZIZI, ELHAM · 2020 to 2022
$652k
Computational toolbox for spatial transcriptomic analysis of complex tissuesR21HG012639 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI AZIZI, ELHAM · 2023 to 2023
$435k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA230195NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012875NHGRI NIH HHS R21 HG012639
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial transcriptomic data enable study of cell-cell communication, yet current analysis tools often fail to provide dynamic, interpretable estimates of interactions and their spatial range across tissue. We present AMICI, an interpretable attention framework that jointly estimates interaction length scales, adaptively resolves sender-receiver subpopulations, and links communication to downstream gene programs. AMICI recovers ground-truth interactions in semi-synthetic data, uncovers gene programs linked to cell communication in the mouse cortex, and reveals length-scale-dependent tumor-immune signaling that reinforces estrogen receptor (ER) programs in breast cancer.

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