Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis of Spatially Dense Gene Expression Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01347v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 09:38:01 GMT
• Title: Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis of Spatially Dense Gene Expression Prediction
• Authors: Ruikun Zhang, Yan Yang, Liyuan Pan,
• Abstract summary: PixNet is a dense prediction network capable of predicting spatially resolved gene expression across spots of varying sizes and scales directly from pathology images.<n>We generate a dense continuous gene expression map from the pathology image, and aggregate values within spots of interest to predict the gene expression.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures gene expression at fine-grained spatial resolution, offering insights into tissue molecular landscapes. Previous methods for spatial gene expression prediction usually crop spots of interest from pathology tissue slide images, and learn a model that maps each spot to a single gene expression profile. However, it fundamentally loses spatial resolution of gene expression: 1) each spot often contains multiple cells with distinct gene expression; 2) spots are cropped at fixed resolutions, limiting the ability to predict gene expression at varying spatial scales. To address these limitations, this paper presents PixNet, a dense prediction network capable of predicting spatially resolved gene expression across spots of varying sizes and scales directly from pathology images. Different from previous methods that map individual spots to gene expression values, we generate a dense continuous gene expression map from the pathology image, and aggregate values within spots of interest to predict the gene expression. Our PixNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods on 3 common ST datasets, while showing superior performance in predicting gene expression across multiple spatial scales. The source code will be publicly available.

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