Baysor: Cell segmentation in imaging-based spatial transcriptomics

Petukhov V, Xu RJ, Soldatov RA, Cadinu P, Khodosevich K, Moffit JR, Kharchenko P

Problem

How to map expression to space?

  • MERFISH
  • ISS
  • osmFISH
  • smFISH
  • BaristaSeq
  • Up to 10  cells
  • Up to 10  transcripts
  • Up to 10000 genes

Spatial protocols based on RNA-FISH or in situ sequencint

  • DARTFISH
  • ex-FISH
  • StarMAP
  • seq-FISH
  • FISSEQ

Protocols

Data

6

7

Segmentation problems

Molecules

DAPI

*Moffitt, J. R. et al. Molecular, spatial and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region. Science 362 (2018)

Segmentation problems

MERFISH

[1]

osm-FISH

[2]

1. Moffitt, J. R. et al. Molecular, spatial and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region. Science 362 (2018)

2. Simone Codeluppi, Lars E. Borm, Amit Zeisel, Gioele La Manno, Josina A. van Lunteren, Camilla I. Svensson & Sten Linnarsson. Nature Methods 15, 932–935 (2018)

Old results

Neighborhood composition

Segmentation across protocols

Segmentation across protocols

Benchmarking

New results

More benchmarks: pciSeq

MERFISH gut data

Segment nuclei against cytoplasm

NCV

Compartments

Segment nuclei against cytoplasm

3D segmentation

Other plots

Thank you!