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SHIELD: A weakly supervised graph attention neural network for decoding disease-relevant cell-cell interactions.

Vivek Sehra1,2,3,4, Benjamin Ruf1,2,3,4,5, Gabriel Duval1,2,3,4

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.

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SHIELD, a new computational framework, decodes cell-cell interactions in tissues using spatial immune landscape decoding. It identifies disease-specific interactions without prior assumptions, offering a robust tool for mechanistic discovery.

Keywords:
cancerdiabetesgraph attention networkhighly multiplexed tissue imagingsingle-cell biologyspatial biology

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Area of Science:

  • Computational biology
  • Immunology
  • Pathology

Background:

  • Multiplexed tissue imaging is crucial for studying cell-cell interactions in disease.
  • Existing computational methods for inferring these interactions are limited in systematicity, interpretability, and supervision.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel computational framework, SHIELD (spatially enhanced immune landscape decoding), for quantifying disease-relevant cell-cell interactions.
  • To provide an interpretable and data-driven tool for spatial tissue analysis and mechanistic discovery.

Main Methods:

  • SHIELD utilizes a graph attention network framework.
  • It quantifies cell-cell interactions using learned attention scores.
  • The method does not rely on prior biological assumptions like ligand-receptor databases.

Main Results:

  • SHIELD was validated on three multiplexed tissue imaging datasets: hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), colorectal cancer (CRC), and type 1 diabetes (T1D).
  • It identified specific interactions, including rare MAIT cell-macrophage interactions in HCC.
  • The framework also revealed suppressive CD8+ T cell-macrophage interactions in CRC non-responders and β cell interactions with T cells in T1D.

Conclusions:

  • SHIELD reconstructs known and biologically meaningful cell-cell interactions across different disease contexts.
  • It offers a robust and interpretable computational tool for spatial tissue analysis.
  • The framework facilitates data-driven discovery of disease mechanisms through cell-cell interaction inference.