cell type proportions, degree of immune cell clustering 2. Relate to patient-level or clinical outcome • Features -> model covariates • Outcomes: disease progression, tumor subtype, patient survival time How do multiplex images relate to patient outcomes? B Steinhart, KR Jordan, J Bapat, MD Post, LW Brubaker, BG Bitler, and J Wrobel. Molecular Cancer Research, 19(12) (2021)
cells are considered random and to follow a point process • Marked point patterns have covariates (cell shape, area, expression of CD3) associated with each point • Multitype point patterns have multiple types of points • Green cells are in tumor issue area • Pink cells are in stromal tissue area • Black cells are macrophages • Quantify macrophage clustering in tumor/stroma
an image • Function of radius r • Univariate: among cells of one type (e.g., immune cells) • Bivariate: among two cypes of cells (e.g. macrophages and B-cells) • Often to detect deviations from complete spatial randomness (CSR) • Clustering or repulsion • Many types exist! • I’ll focus on Ripley’s K and Nearest-neighbor G Spatial summary functions based on point processes 4
proteomics data • In FDA, basic unit of observation is a curve or function 𝑋! 𝑟 • For multiplex imaging 𝑋! 𝑟 is a spatial summary function (e.g. 𝐺! 𝑟 ) 8
spatial summary functions across images and patients • No need to choose a single (potentially arbitrary radius) when analyzing spatial summary functions across patients • Less information is discarded • There are functional analogs of common tools like PCA, regression 9
spatial summary functions across images and patients • No need to choose a single (potentially arbitrary radius) when analyzing spatial summary functions across patients • Less information is discarded • There are functional analogs of common tools like PCA, regression • Not always easy to implement 10
website created by Alex Soupir • http://juliawrobel.com/mxfda/ • Package functionality: • Generate univariate and bivariate K, G functions • Functional principal components analysis • Regression models with functional covariate • Today I’ll focus on describing regression models for survival outcomes with functional predictors 12
survival from ovarian cancer • 𝑍! is age at baseline • 𝑋! 𝑟 is 𝐺! 𝑟 − 𝐸()* 𝐺! 𝑟 for immune cells in the tumor • 𝑋! 𝑟 > 0 extra probability beyond chance of a neighboring immune cell occurring within radius 𝑟 • Real data modified to increase signal • 𝐺! 𝑟 generated using • mxfda::extract_summary_functions()
PCA that involves smooth principal components • extracts interpretable, low-dimensional patterns from these data • Goal is to obtain curve reconstruction: 𝑋! 𝑟 = 𝜇 𝑟 + & "#$ % 𝑐!" 𝜓" 𝑟 + 𝜖! 𝑟 • 𝜇 𝑟 is the population mean • 𝜓# 𝑟 are population-level FPCs • 𝑐!# are subject-specific loadings on the FPCs called “scores” 16
∫ 𝐹 𝑟, 𝑋! (𝑟) 𝑑𝑟 • 𝐹 𝑟, 𝑋! (𝑟) represented as penalized tensor product spline surface • mxfda::run_fcm(afcm = TRUE) • mxfda::plot() • Useful model if you believe the relationship between survival and 𝑋! (𝑟) is both nonlinear in 𝑟 and different at each value of 𝑋! Cui, Crainiceanu, Leroux. “Additive functional Cox model.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. log 𝜆! 𝑡; 𝑍!, 𝑋! = log 𝜆" 𝑡 + 7 #$% & 𝛾#𝑍!# + 𝐻 𝑋! 𝑟
functions from multiplex imaging data • More flexible than scalar approaches • Potentially more power • No arbitrary radius cutoff • Three types of models to choose from • Differing levels of flexibility and interpretability
large multiplex imaging datasets from the University of Colorado • Short courses on multiplex imaging • http://juliawrobel.com/MI_tutorial • http://juliawrobel.com/PSB_scProteomics • Website for mxfda package • http://juliawrobel.com/mxfda/ • Three vignettes 25
Thao Vu • Debashis Ghosh Moffit Cancer Center • Brooke Fridley • Alex Soupir Contact Info [email protected] juliawrobel.com github.com/julia-wrobel/mxfda 1. Vu, Wrobel, Ghosh. “FunSpace: A functional and spatial analytic approach to cell imaging data using entropy measures.” PLoS Computational Biology, 2023. 2. Vu, Wrobel, Ghosh.”SPF: A spatial and functional data analytic approach to cell imaging data.” PLoS Computational Biology.