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Ying Ma^1,2, Xiang Zhou^3,4

¹Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

|June 6, 2024

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We developed Integrative and Reference-informed Tissue Segmentation (IRIS) to map spatial domains in tissues. IRIS accurately and efficiently analyzes spatial transcriptomics data, revealing complex biological structures.

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) enables detailed mapping of tissue structure and function.
Increasing SRT dataset size and complexity necessitate advanced computational methods for analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Integrative and Reference-informed Tissue Segmentation (IRIS), a novel computational method.
To accurately and efficiently detect spatial domains in SRT data.
To integrate multiple SRT slices and account for cross-slice correlations.

Main Methods:

IRIS leverages single-cell RNA sequencing data for reference-informed domain detection.
The method integrates multiple SRT slices, considering intra- and inter-slice correlations.

Validation performed on six diverse SRT datasets across different technologies, tissues, species, and resolutions.

Main Results:

IRIS demonstrated significant accuracy gains (39-1,083%) and speed improvements (4.6-666.0) on moderate datasets.
IRIS is the only method applicable to large-scale datasets like Stereo-seq and 10x Xenium.
The method successfully revealed intricate brain structures, tumor microenvironment heterogeneity, and testicular changes in diabetes.

Conclusions:

IRIS provides a powerful and efficient computational approach for spatial domain detection in SRT studies.
The method enhances biological interpretability and scalability for analyzing complex spatial transcriptomics data.
IRIS facilitates discoveries in diverse biological contexts, from neuroanatomy to disease pathology.