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Derek M Young

Vanderbilt University

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Benchmarking cell type annotation in spatial transcriptomics: resolving cellular hierarchies, biological fidelity, and dynamic cell states

Yuling Zhu, Yunfei Hu, Manfei Bella Xie, Haoran Qin, Zuzanna J Szul, Derek M Young, Weiman Yuan, Qimeng Wang, Yichen Henry Liu, Wenjun Shen, Shan Meltzer, Xin Zhou

This study benchmarks 20 cell type annotation methods on spatial transcriptomics data to evaluate their performance in resolving cell types, subtypes, and biological organization across diverse datasets.

bioRxiv · Jun 22, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics