The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics (응용통계연구)

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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One-step spectral clustering of weighted variables on single-cell RNA-sequencing data

단세포 RNA 시퀀싱 데이터를 위한 가중변수 스펙트럼 군집화 기법

  • 박민영 (성균관대학교 통계학과) ;
  • 박세영 (성균관대학교 통계학과)
  • Received : 2020.05.20
  • Accepted : 2020.07.14
  • Published : 2020.08.31
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Abstract

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data consists of each cell's RNA expression extracted from large populations of cells. One main purpose of using scRNA-seq data is to identify inter-cellular heterogeneity. However, scRNA-seq data pose statistical challenges when applying traditional clustering methods because they have many missing values and high level of noise due to technical and sampling issues. In this paper, motivated by analyzing scRNA-seq data, we propose a novel spectral-based clustering method by imposing different weights on genes when computing a similarity between cells. Assigning weights on genes and clustering cells are performed simultaneously in the proposed clustering framework. We solve the proposed non-convex optimization using an iterative algorithm. Both real data application and simulation study suggest that the proposed clustering method better identifies underlying clusters compared with existing clustering methods.

단세포 RNA 시퀀싱 데이터(single-cell RNA-sequencing data, 이하 단세포 RNA 데이터)는 세포 조직으로부터 추출한 각 단세포 별 유전자의 신호를 기록한 데이터로, 세포 간의 이질성을 파악하는 것을 주요 목적으로 한다. 그러나 단세포 RNA 데이터는 샘플링 및 기술적인 한계로 인해 결측비율이 높고, 노이즈가 크다. 이러한 이유 때문에 기존의 군집화 방법을 적용하는 데에 한계가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 단세포 RNA 데이터 분석에서 모티브를 얻어 스펙트럼 군집화(spectral clustering) 기반의 방법을 제안한다. 특히 유사도 행렬(similarity matrix) 계산에서 유전자 별로 가중치를 부여하여 기존의 단세포 데이터 분석 방법과 차별화하였다. 제안하는 군집화 방법은 유전자별 가중치를 부여함과 동시에 세포를 군집화한다. 군집화는 반복 알고리즘을 통해 제안하는 비볼록식(non-convex optimization)을 풀어 진행한다. 또한 실데이터 적용과 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 군집화 방법이 기존의 방법보다 군집을 잘 구분하는 것을 보인다.

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