Super-resolved spatial transcriptomics by deep data fusion.

Bergenstråhle, Ludvig; He, Bryan; Bergenstråhle, Joseph; Abalo, Xesús; Mirzazadeh, Reza; Thrane, Kim; Ji, Andrew L; Andersson, Alma et al. · Nat Biotechnol · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Current methods for spatial transcriptomics are limited by low spatial resolution. Here we introduce a method that integrates spatial gene expression data with histological image data from the same tissue section to infer higher-resolution expression maps. Using a deep generative model, our method characterizes the transcriptome of micrometer-scale anatomical features and can predict spatial gene expression from histology images alone.

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