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¹Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA. djones3@fredhutch.org.

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Accurate cell segmentation is crucial for single-cell spatial transcriptomics. Proseg, a new probabilistic segmentation method, improves cell boundary inference, enhancing the detection of immune cells and revealing spatial relationships in renal cell carcinoma.

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Area of Science:

Single-cell biology
Computational biology
Immunology

Background:

Single-cell spatial transcriptomics offers high-resolution insights into cellular states and microenvironments.
Inaccurate cell segmentation leads to transcript misattribution and data noise, hindering biological interpretation.
Existing segmentation methods struggle with complex cellular structures and diverse biological samples.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a computationally efficient and accurate cell segmentation method for spatial transcriptomics.
To improve the identification and characterization of challenging cell types, particularly tumor-infiltrating immune cells.
To investigate the spatial proximity of specific T cell subsets to tumor cells in renal cell carcinoma.

Main Methods:

Probabilistic segmentation (Proseg) was developed using ab initio cell simulation principles.
Proseg was benchmarked against existing methods on datasets from three commercial spatial transcriptomics platforms.
The impact of improved segmentation on immune cell detection and spatial association analysis was evaluated.

Main Results:

Proseg demonstrated superior performance and computational efficiency compared to existing segmentation methods across multiple platforms.
Enhanced cell segmentation significantly improved the detection of difficult-to-segment cells, including neutrophils and T cells.
Proseg enabled the delineation of T cell subsets, revealing that CXCL13-expressing CD8+ T cells are spatially closer to tumor cells in renal cell carcinoma samples.

Conclusions:

Proseg is a robust and efficient tool for accurate cell segmentation in spatial transcriptomics.
Improved segmentation accuracy enhances the biological insights obtainable from spatial transcriptomics data, especially for immune cell analysis.
The findings highlight the utility of Proseg in uncovering tumor-immune microenvironment spatial dynamics and identifying potential therapeutic targets.