arXiv:2508.10646cs.LGcs.AI2025-08

用拓扑结构增强空间转录组聚类,提升细胞亚群识别精度。

SPHENIC: Topology-Aware Multi-View Clustering for Spatial Transcriptomics

  • 引入持久同调特征,捕捉细胞间全局拓扑关系。
  • 在11个数据集上比现有方法高4.19%-9.14%准确率。
  • 适合研究组织微环境与细胞空间分布的生物学家。

空间转录组聚类对于利用空间位置信息识别细胞亚群至关重要。尽管基于图的方法通过建模细胞间相互作用提升了聚类准确性,但仍存在两个关键局限:(i) 依赖静态图的局部聚合难以捕捉鲁棒的全局拓扑结构(如环和空洞),且易受噪声边影响;(ii) 降维技术常忽略空间一致性,导致物理相邻的点在嵌入空间中被错误分离。为此,我们提出SPHENIC——一种空间持久同调增强的邻域集成聚类方法。具体而言,它将拓扑不变特征显式融入聚类网络,以增强对噪声的鲁棒表示学习能力。同时设计双正则化优化模块,在分布优化的同时施加空间约束,确保嵌入空间保留细胞的物理邻近性。在11个基准数据集上的大量实验表明,SPHENIC相比最优方法提升4.19%-9.14%,验证了其在刻画复杂组织结构方面的优越性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Spatial transcriptomics clustering is pivotal for identifying cell subpopulations by leveraging spatial location information. While recent graph-based methods modeling cell-cell interactions have improved clustering accuracy, they remain limited in two key aspects: (i) reliance on local aggregation in static graphs often fails to capture robust global topological structures (e.g., loops and voids) and is vulnerable to noisy edges; and (ii) dimensionality reduction techniques frequently neglect spatial coherence, causing physically adjacent spots to be erroneously separated in the latent space. To overcome these challenges, we propose SPHENIC, a Spatial Persistent Homology-Enhanced Neighborhood Integrative Clustering method. Specifically, it explicitly incorporates topology-invariant features into the clustering network to ensure robust representation learning against noise. Furthermore, we design a dual-regularized optimization module that imposes spatial constraints alongside distributional optimization, ensuring that the embedding space preserves the physical proximity of cells. Extensive experiments on 11 benchmark datasets demonstrate that SPHENIC outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 4.19%-9.14%, validating its superiority in characterizing complex tissue architectures.

空间转录组聚类拓扑学习

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