Spatially visualized single-cell pathology of highly multiplexed protein profiles in health and disease

Abstract

Allam, Hu, et al. present SpatialViz, a suite of algorithms to explore spatial relationships in multiplexed tissue images by visualizing and quantifying single-cell granularity and anatomical complexity in diverse multiplexed tissue imaging data. The authors employ SpatialViz on 20-plex protein data in tissue sections from normal and chronic tonsillitis cases and observe GrB and CD86 coexpression and CD3 + CD4+ enrichment in diseased tonsils compared to healthy tonsils, and demonstrate the utility of SpatialViz as a wide-application spatial visualization method.