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SpaIM: single-cell spatial transcriptomics imputation via style transfer.

Bo Li¹, Ziyang Tang², Aishwarya Budhkar³

¹Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China.

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SpaIM, a new model, enhances spatial transcriptomics (ST) by predicting missing gene data using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). This improves understanding of tissue architecture and cellular function.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers insights into cellular organization but faces limitations in gene coverage and signal sparsity.
Integrating diverse single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data with ST is crucial for comprehensive analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a computational framework, SpaIM, for enhancing ST data by predicting unmeasured gene expressions.
To leverage scRNA-seq data to enrich the gene coverage and accuracy of ST profiles.

Main Methods:

SpaIM utilizes a style transfer learning approach to integrate scRNA-seq data with ST.
The model disentangles shared content and modality-specific styles for effective data fusion.

Main Results:

SpaIM demonstrated superior performance across 53 diverse datasets compared to 12 existing methods.
The model significantly improved gene coverage, expression accuracy, and downstream analysis, including ligand-receptor interactions and spatial domain identification.

Conclusions:

SpaIM provides a robust and generalizable method for enriching ST data with scRNA-seq information.
The open-source release of SpaIM promotes wider accessibility and application in spatial biology research.