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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

3D reconstruction of spatial transcriptomics with spatial pattern enhanced graph convolutional neural network.

Chen Tang, Yuansheng Zhou, Xue Xiao, Lei Dong, Lei Yu, Qiwei Li, Guanghua Xiao, Lin Xu

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Chen TangQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Yuansheng ZhouQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ORCID 0000-0002-9867-0613
Xue XiaoQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Lei DongQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Lei YuQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Qiwei LiDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, U.S.A.
Guanghua XiaoQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Lin XuQuantitative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Health Data Science & Biostatistics, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS--SPORE IN LUNG CANCERP50CA070907 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI HEYMACH, JOHN V. · 1996 to 2024
$57.4M
UT Southwestern Medical Center Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CenterP30CA142543 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Kathryn Ann O'Donnell · 2010 to 2026
$53.7M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) is a promising new technology that enables simultaneous analysis of gene expression and spatial information for biomedical research. However, the existing statistical and deep learning algorithms used for analyzing SRT data rely solely on two-dimensional (2D) spatial coordinates, which limits their ability to accurately identify spatial domains, spatially variable genes, cell-to-cell communications, and developmental trajectories in a three-dimensional (3D) spatial manner. To address these limitations, we introduced Spa3D, which utilized the anti-leakage Fourier transform and graph convolutional neural network model to reconstruct 3D-based spatial structures from multiple 2D SRT slices. We demonstrate that Spa3D is appliable to analyze data from various SRT technology platforms and outperforms state-of-art methods by: (I) improving spatial domain identification through 3D reconstruction, (II) elucidating cell-cell communication landscape in the 3D cellular organization, (III) modeling of organ-level tempo-spatial development patterns in a 3D fashion, and (IV) annotating 3D spatial trajectory that are not captured by 2D spatial coordinates.

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3D reconstruction algorithmgraph convolutional networkspatial pattern enhancementSpatial transcriptomics

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PMID41648149
PMCPMC12871186

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