用少量样本实现低成本3D基因表达重建,精度接近全采样。
ST-DAI: Single-shot 2.5D Spatial Transcriptomics with Intra-Sample Domain Adaptive Imputation for Cost-efficient 3D Reconstruction
- 仅全测中央切片+稀疏采邻近切片,降低实验成本。
- 单次训练即完成3D重建,性能接近全采样方法。
- 自适应对齐与可信度加权,提升跨切片预测准确率。
针对3D空间转录组学中每切片高成本问题,本文提出ST-DAI框架,采用低成本2.5D采样策略:仅全测中央切片,邻近切片稀疏采样,以保留三维结构信息。在此基础上,提出单次训练的3D重构方法,利用样本内自适应归一化机制解决切片间位置错位与领域差异问题。先对齐中央切片与邻近切片,生成密集伪标签;再通过快速多域精调(FMDR)适配邻近切片域,仅微调少数参数。引入置信度评分生成器(CSG)动态重加权伪标签,优先优化高可信区域。实验表明,该方法在显著降低测量负担的同时,基因表达预测性能接近全采样方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
For 3D spatial transcriptomics (ST), the high per-section acquisition cost of fully sampling every tissue section remains a significant challenge. Although recent approaches predict gene expression from histology images, these methods require large external datasets, which leads to high-cost and suffers from substantial domain discrepancies that lead to poor generalization on new samples. In this work, we introduce ST-DAI, a single-shot framework for 3D ST that couples a cost-efficient 2.5D sampling scheme with an intra-sample domain-adaptive imputation framework. First, in the cost-efficient 2.5D sampling stage, one reference section (central section) is fully sampled while other sections (adjacent sections) is sparsely sampled, thereby capturing volumetric context at significantly reduced experimental cost. Second, we propose a single-shot 3D imputation learning method that allows us to generate fully sampled 3D ST from this cost-efficient 2.5D ST scheme, using only sample-specific training. We observe position misalignment and domain discrepancy between sections. To address those issues, we adopt a pipeline that first aligns the central section to the adjacent section, thereafter generates dense pseudo-supervision on the central section, and then performs Fast Multi-Domain Refinement (FMDR), which adapts the network to the domain of the adjacent section while fine-tuning only a few parameters through the use of Parameter-Efficient Domain-Alignment Layers (PDLs). During this refinement, a Confidence Score Generator (CSG) reweights the pseudo-labels according to their estimated reliability, thereby directing imputation toward trustworthy regions. Our experimental results demonstrate that ST-DAI achieves gene expression prediction performance comparable to fully sampled approaches while substantially reducing the measurement burden.
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