Spatially aware clustering groups the spots of a tissue section into domains using both what they express and where they sit, so the domains are contiguous regions rather than scattered spots.
SpaGCN, from Hu and colleagues, uses a graph convolutional network over spots linked by spatial proximity and histology to identify spatial domains and their marker genes. Simpler versions average each spot with its k nearest neighbours (Wikipedia on k-NN) before principal components and k-means clustering (Wikipedia), which reduces the sparsity of spatial counts and yields coherent regions at the cost of blurring boundaries. Moran's I then tests whether the resulting labels or risk scores are spatially structured.
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