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  • Tumors are complex and diverse, making it hard to study how cancer cells interact with each other and their environment; researchers are using new techniques like spatial transcriptomics and single-cell sequencing to better understand these systems.
  • Traditional methods for analyzing gene expression in cancer often miss important differences between cell types, as they focus mainly on statistical methods that can overlook significant variations.
  • The proposed GTADC method enhances gene selection accuracy using graph-based deep learning, improving the understanding of spatial relationships in cancer tissues and potentially aiding early cancer detection and diagnosis.

Article Abstract

The heterogeneity of tumors poses a challenge for understanding cell interactions and constructing complex ecosystems within cancer tissues. Current research strategies integrate spatial transcriptomics (ST) and single-cell sequencing (scRNA-seq) data to thoroughly analyze this intricate system. However, traditional deep learning methods using scRNA-seq data tend to filter differentially expressed genes through statistical methods. In the context of cancer tissues, where cancer cells exhibit significant differences in gene expression compared to normal cells, this heterogeneity renders traditional analysis methods incapable of accurately capturing differences between cell types. Therefore, we propose a graph-based deep learning method, GTADC, which utilizes Silhouette scores to precisely capture genes with significant expression differences within each cell type, enhancing the accuracy of gene selection. Compared to traditional methods, GTADC not only considers the expression similarity of genes within their respective clusters but also comprehensively leverages information from the overall clustering structure. The introduction of graph structure effectively captures spatial relationships and topological structures between the two types of data, enabling GTADC to more accurately and comprehensively resolve the spatial composition of different cell types within tissues. This refinement allows GTADC to intricately reconstruct the cellular spatial composition, offering a precise solution for inferring cell spatial composition. This method allows for early detection of potential cancer cell regions within tissues, assessing their quantity and spatial information in cell populations. We aim to achieve a preliminary estimation of cancer occurrence and development, contributing to a deeper understanding of early-stage cancer and providing potential support for early cancer diagnosis.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11048052PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom14040436DOI Listing

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