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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07685-4
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- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [JP21ck0106700h0001]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [16H06279]
Spatial transcriptomics can enhance histological interpretations by predicting gene expression patterns in unmeasured regions and tissues. Researchers developed a deep learning model called DeepSpaCE, which accurately predicts gene expression using spatial transcriptome data and immunohistochemistry images. They also developed a semi-supervised version of DeepSpaCE, which improves imputation accuracy using unlabeled histology images.
Spatial transcriptomics is an emerging technology requiring costly reagents and considerable skills, limiting the identification of transcriptional markers related to histology. Here, we show that predicted spatial gene-expression in unmeasured regions and tissues can enhance biologists' histological interpretations. We developed the Deep learning model for Spatial gene Clusters and Expression, DeepSpaCE, and confirmed its performance using the spatial-transcriptome profiles and immunohistochemistry images of consecutive human breast cancer tissue sections. For example, the predicted expression patterns of SPARC, an invasion marker, highlighted a small tumor-invasion region difficult to identify using raw spatial transcriptome data alone because of a lack of measurements. We further developed semi-supervised DeepSpaCE using unlabeled histology images and increased the imputation accuracy of consecutive sections, enhancing applicability for a small sample size. Our method enables users to derive hidden histological characters via spatial transcriptome and gene annotations, leading to accelerated biological discoveries without additional experiments.
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