Spatio-relational inductive biases in spatial cell-type deconvolution
Vinas, R.; Scherer, P.; Simidjievski, N.; Jamnik, M.; Lio, P.
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Spatial transcriptomic technologies profile gene expression in-situ, facilitating the spatial characterisation of molecular phenomena within tissues, yet often at multi-cellular resolution. Computational approaches have been developed to infer fine-grained cell-type compositions across locations, but they frequently treat neighbouring spots independently of each other. Here we present GNN-C2L, a flexible deconvolution approach that leverages proximal inductive biases to propagate information along adjacent spots. In performance comparison on simulated and semisimulated datasets, GNN-C2L achieves increased deconvolution performance over spatial-agnostic variants. We believe that accounting for spatial inductive biases can yield improved characterisation of cell-type heterogeneity in tissues.
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