MICRON learns outcome-associated representations of spatial immune microenvironments
Chen, C.-J.; George, B.; Dhawka, L.; Evangelista, B.; Stanley, N.
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Spatial imaging proteomics modalities, such as imaging mass cytometry, enable comprehensive identification of immune microenvironments driving disease outcomes. Identifying outcome-associated immune microenvironments from these data has proven to be complex, as it requires segmenting cells with complex shapes and reconciling spatial signatures across many heterogeneous samples. We present MICRON, a segmentation-free, fully automated multiple-instance learning based tool for automatic identification of outcome-linked immune microenvironments. MICRON learns representations of samples profiled with spatial imaging proteomics modalities, enabling more accurate prognostic and diagnostic prediction over existing approaches. As a case study, we show that MICRON generates a comprehensive importance map that reveals key outcome-associated immune microenvironments in brain cancer, uncovering coordinated cell-cell communication between astrocytes, NK cells, and macrophages linked to survival outcomes. MICRON is provided as open source software for broad use by clinicians and biologists at https://github.com/ChenCookie/micron.
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