BayesClint: Bayesian Multi-Scale Clustering and Multi-Sample Integration With Feature Selection for Spatial Transcriptomics Data

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Recent advances in spatial transcriptomics have enabled researchers to profile gene expression at the single-cell spatial resolution, often for multiple tissue samples in a single study. This high-dimensional molecular profile for each cell can be used to sort cells into cell types with distinct functions, or segment the tissue into biologically relevant spatial domains. Although many non-spatial and spatial clustering methods have been developed to cluster these cells into cell types or spatial domains, most have two main limitations: first, they perform dimension reduction and clustering separately; second, they cluster cells at a single scale, rather than treating cell type and spatial domain clustering as distinct tasks at two different scales. To overcome these limitations, we propose BayesClint, a Bayesian method that simultaneously performs factor analysis and spatial clustering on multiple samples, where the clustering is done jointly at the single-cell and tissue regional scale. To increase interpretability, we employ a feature selection mechanism within the estimation of the sparse factor loadings matrix, which detects active genes and differentially expressed genes that discriminate between cell type clusters. We illustrate the advantages of the method over alternative state-of-the-art approaches through simulation studies and two real data applications.

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