Self-supervised deep learning for highly efficient spatial immunophenotyping

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BACKGROUND: Efficient biomarker discovery and clinical translation depend on the fast and accurate analytical output from crucial technologies such as multiplex imaging. However, reliable cell classification often requires extensive annotations. Label-efficient strategies are urgently needed to reveal diverse cell distribution and spatial interactions in large-scale multiplex datasets.

METHODS: This study proposed Self-supervised Learning for Antigen Detection (SANDI) for accurate cell phenotyping while mitigating the annotation burden. The model first learns intrinsic pairwise similarities in unlabelled cell images, followed by a classification step to map learnt features to cell labels using a small set of annotated references. We acquired four multiplex immunohistochemistry datasets and one imaging mass cytometry dataset, comprising 2825 to 15,258 single-cell images to train and test the model.

FINDINGS: With 1% annotations (18-114 cells), SANDI achieved weighted F1-scores ranging from 0.82 to 0.98 across the five datasets, which was comparable to the fully supervised classifier trained on 1828-11,459 annotated cells (-0.002 to -0.053 of averaged weighted F1-score, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, P = 0.31). Leveraging the immune checkpoint markers stained in ovarian cancer slides, SANDI-based cell identification reveals spatial expulsion between PD1-expressing T helper cells and T regulatory cells, suggesting an interplay between PD1 expression and T regulatory cell-mediated immunosuppression.

INTERPRETATION: By striking a fine balance between minimal expert guidance and the power of deep learning to learn similarity within abundant data, SANDI presents new opportunities for efficient, large-scale learning for histology multiplex imaging data.

FUNDING: This study was funded by the Royal Marsden/ICR National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:95

Enthalten in:

EBioMedicine - 95(2023) vom: 01. Sept., Seite 104769

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Hanyun [VerfasserIn]
AbdulJabbar, Khalid [VerfasserIn]
Grunewald, Tami [VerfasserIn]
Akarca, Ayse U [VerfasserIn]
Hagos, Yeman [VerfasserIn]
Sobhani, Faranak [VerfasserIn]
Lecat, Catherine S Y [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Dominic [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Lydia [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Justo, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Yong, Kwee [VerfasserIn]
Ledermann, Jonathan A [VerfasserIn]
Le Quesne, John [VerfasserIn]
Hwang, E Shelley [VerfasserIn]
Marafioti, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Yinyin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cell classification
Deep learning
Imaging mass cytometry
Journal Article
Multiplex imaging
Multiplex immunohistochemistry
Self-supervised learning

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Date Completed 18.09.2023

Date Revised 21.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104769

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361706251