首先我们需要理解这个图片的内容,解读如下:Characterizing ST spots by cell type neighborhood. In the top schematic grey spots indicate the 462 presence of the cell type of interest, orange indicates ‘Malignant’ spots, and dashed lines their 463 surrounding spots. the spots are colored by neighborhood 464 macrophage score. 内容就是选择目标spot,分析其周围spot含有细胞类型A的分数(比如肿瘤spot周围spot含有巨噬细胞的含量),并用颜色梯度进行空间展示。
这么做的意义,To characterize the cell type composition surrounding each ‘Malignant’ spot(目标细胞类型), we calculated, for each cell type, two score indices meant to capture their microenvironment. We defined the ‘neighborhood score’ as the fraction of surrounding spots containing that cell type。This score thus directly measures the cell type composition in the adjacent spots。