Zmap: an intelligent region-allocation method to map single-cell into spatial data
Cai, Q.; Lin, L.; Liu, X.; Chen, J.
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Integration of single-cell and spatial transcriptome represents as a fundamental strategy to enhance spatial data quality. However, existing methods for mapping single-cell data to spatial coordinates struggle with large-scale datasets comprising millions of cells. Here, we introduce Zmap, an intelligent region-allocation method inspired by the region-of-interest (ROI) concept from image processing. By using gradient descent, Zmap allocates cells to structured spatial regions that matching the most significant biological information, optimizing the integration of data and improving speed and accuracy. Zmap excels in integrating data even in the presence of various sequencing artifacts, such as cell segmentation errors and imbalanced cell-type representations. Zmap outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 10 to 1000 times in speed, and it is the only approach capable of integrating datasets containing millions of cells in a single run. As a result, Zmap uncovers originally hidden gene expression patterns in the brain section, offers new insights into organogenesis and tumor microenvironments, all with exceptional efficiency and accuracy.
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