Joint Imputation and Deconvolution of Gene Expression Across Spatial Transcriptomics Platforms

Hongyu Zheng, Hirak Sarkar, Benjamin J. Raphael

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Abstract

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) technologies measure gene expression across thousands of spatial locations in a tissue, with different technologies having varying resolution, gene coverage, and sequencing depth. Integration of multiple SRT technologies can overcome the limitations of individual technologies; for example enabling gene expression imputation in spatial technologies with limited gene coverage (e.g. 10x Genomics Xenium) or deconvolution of cells in technologies with low spatial resolution (e.g. 10x Genomics Visium). We introduce Spatial Integration for Imputation and Deconvolution (SIID), a joint non-negative factorization model that aligns and integrates paired SRT datasets that profile nearby tissue slices with different SRT technologies. We show that SIID outperforms existing tools in reconstructing cell-type assignments, recovering gene expression, and imputing missing data on simulated data and 10x Genomics Xenium-Visium paired datasets from breast and colon cancer.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationResearch in Computational Molecular Biology - 29th International Conference, RECOMB 2025, Proceedings
EditorsSriram Sankararaman
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages358-361
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9783031902512
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event29th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2025 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Apr 26 2025Apr 29 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume15647 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2025
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period4/26/254/29/25

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • deconvolution
  • imputation
  • non-negative matrix factorization
  • Spatial transcriptomics

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