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Masaki Ohira

National Cancer Center Exploratory Oncology Research & Clinical Trial Center

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1 Approach:variational autoencoder· 1

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SPATNIC enables H&E-grounded cancer-cell identification across spatial and single-cell transcriptomic modalities in colorectal cancer

Shunsuke A. Sakai, Ryosuke Nomura, Masaki Ohira, Kyoko Kurihara, SungGi Chi, Yuki Matsubara, Yukiko Morinaga, Takeshi Kato, Naoko Takeda-Miyata, Motohiro Kojima, Shingo Sakashita, Hiromichi Ebi, Rui Yamaguchi, Eiji Oki, Takao Fujisawa, , Riu Yamashita

SPATNIC is a variational autoencoder that identifies cancer cells from spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data in colorectal cancer, outperforming existing tools and identifying a rare cancer stem cell population.

bioRxiv · Oct 22, 2026 · PreprintCancer Biology