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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

A spectral dimension reduction technique that improves pattern detection in multivariate spatial data.

David Köhler, Niklas Kleinenkuhnen, Kiarash Rastegar, Till Baar, Chrysa Nikopoulou, Vangelis Kondylis, Vlada Milchevskaya, Matthias Schmid, Peter Tessarz, Achim Tresch

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David KöhlerUniversity of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology, Bonn 53127, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-0027-4046
Niklas KleinenkuhnenInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne 50931, Germany.
Kiarash RastegarInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne 50931, Germany.
Till BaarInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne 50931, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6744-1463
Chrysa NikopoulouMax Planck Research Group 'Chromatin and Ageing', Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne 50931, Germany.
Vangelis KondylisInstitute for Pathology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne 50937, Germany.
Vlada MilchevskayaInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne 50931, Germany.
Matthias SchmidUniversity of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology, Bonn 53127, Germany.
Peter TessarzMax Planck Research Group 'Chromatin and Ageing', Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne 50931, Germany.
Achim TreschInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne 50931, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4146-6371

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Abstract

motivationWe introduce a statistical approach for pattern recognition in multivariate spatial transcriptomics data.

resultsOur algorithm constructs a projection of the data onto a low-dimensional feature space which is optimal in maximizing Moran's I, a measure of spatial dependency. This projection mitigates non-spatial variation and outperforms principal components analysis for pre-processing. Patterns of spatially variable genes are well represented in this feature space, and their projection can be shown to be a denoising operation. Our framework does not require any parameter tuning, and it furthermore gives rise to a calibrated, powerful test of spatial gene expression. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The algorithm is implemented in the open source software R and is available at https://github.com/IMSBCompBio/SpaCo.

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AlgorithmsGene Expression ProfilingPattern Recognition, AutomatedDimensionality ReductionMultivariate AnalysisPrincipal Component AnalysisSoftwareSpatial Transcriptomics

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PMCPMC12925250

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