Spatially resolved transcriptomics enable comprehensive measurement of gene expression at subcellular resolution while preserving the spatial context of the tissue microenvironment.While deep learning has shown promis...Spatially resolved transcriptomics enable comprehensive measurement of gene expression at subcellular resolution while preserving the spatial context of the tissue microenvironment.While deep learning has shown promise in analyzing SCST datasets,most efforts have focused on sequence data and spatial localization,with limited emphasis on leveraging rich histopathological insights from staining images.We introduce GIST,a deep learning-enabled gene expression and histology integration for spatial cellular profiling.GIST employs histopathology foundation models pretrained on millions of histology images to enhance feature extraction and a hybrid graph transformer model to integrate them with transcriptome features.Validated with datasets from human lung,breast,and colorectal cancers,GIST effectively reveals spatial domains and substantially improves the accuracy of segmenting the microenvironment after denoising transcriptomics data.This enhancement enables more accurate gene expression analysis and aids in identifying prognostic marker genes,outperforming state-of-the-art deep learning methods with a total improvement of up to 49.72%.GIST provides a generalizable framework for integrating histology with spatial transcriptome analysis,revealing novel insights into spatial organization and functional dynamics.展开更多
基金supported by Amazon Web Services Activate Startup Programsupported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2023CDJYGRHZD05)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,82303419).
文摘Spatially resolved transcriptomics enable comprehensive measurement of gene expression at subcellular resolution while preserving the spatial context of the tissue microenvironment.While deep learning has shown promise in analyzing SCST datasets,most efforts have focused on sequence data and spatial localization,with limited emphasis on leveraging rich histopathological insights from staining images.We introduce GIST,a deep learning-enabled gene expression and histology integration for spatial cellular profiling.GIST employs histopathology foundation models pretrained on millions of histology images to enhance feature extraction and a hybrid graph transformer model to integrate them with transcriptome features.Validated with datasets from human lung,breast,and colorectal cancers,GIST effectively reveals spatial domains and substantially improves the accuracy of segmenting the microenvironment after denoising transcriptomics data.This enhancement enables more accurate gene expression analysis and aids in identifying prognostic marker genes,outperforming state-of-the-art deep learning methods with a total improvement of up to 49.72%.GIST provides a generalizable framework for integrating histology with spatial transcriptome analysis,revealing novel insights into spatial organization and functional dynamics.
