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spatial_cluster

Short Description

sm.tl.spatial_cluster: This function allows users to cluster the spatial neighbourhood matrix genereated by either sm.tl.spatial_expression, sm.tl.spatial_count, sm.tl.spatial_lda etc.

Function

spatial_cluster(adata, df_name='spatial_count', method='kmeans', k=10, n_pcs=None, resolution=1, phenograph_clustering_metric='euclidean', nearest_neighbors=30, random_state=0, label=None, output_dir=None)

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
adata

AnnData object loaded into memory or path to AnnData object.

 required
df_name string

Label of the spatial analysis performed. By default if sm.tl.spatial_count was run the results will be saved under spatial_count and if sm.tl.spatial_expression was run, the results will be saved under spatial_expression.

 'spatial_count'
method string

Clustering method to be used- Implemented methods- kmeans, phenograph and leiden.

 'kmeans'
k int

Number of clusters to return when using K-Means clustering.

 10
phenotype string

The column name that contains the cluster/phenotype information.

 required
n_pcs int

Number of PC's to be used in leiden clustering. By default it uses all PC's.

 None
resolution float

A parameter value controlling the coarseness of the clustering. Higher values lead to more clusters.

 1
phenograph_clustering_metric string

Distance metric to define nearest neighbors. Note that performance will be slower for correlation and cosine. Available methods- cityblock’, ‘cosine’, ‘euclidean’, ‘manhattan’, braycurtis’, ‘canberra’, ‘chebyshev’, ‘correlation’, ‘dice’, ‘hamming’, ‘jaccard’, ‘kulsinski’, ‘mahalanobis’, ‘minkowski’, ‘rogerstanimoto’, ‘russellrao’, ‘seuclidean’, ‘sokalmichener’, ‘sokalsneath’, ‘sqeuclidean’, ‘yule’

 'euclidean'
nearest_neighbors int

Number of nearest neighbors to use in first step of graph construction. This parameter is used both in leiden and phenograph clustering.

 30
random_state int

Change the initialization of the optimization.

 0
label string

Key or optional column name for the returned data, stored in adata.obs. The default is adata.obs [spatial_method used].

 None
output_dir string

Path to output directory.

 None

Returns:

Name Type Description
adata

AnnData Object
Returns an updated anndata object with a new column. check- adata.obs [spatial_method used]

 
1
    adata = sm.tl.spatial_cluster (adata, k= 10, method = 'kmeans') # results will be saved under adata.obs['spatial_kmeans']
Source code in scimap/tools/_spatial_cluster.py 
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def spatial_cluster (adata, df_name='spatial_count', method = 'kmeans',k=10,
                     n_pcs=None, resolution=1, phenograph_clustering_metric='euclidean', 
                     nearest_neighbors=30, random_state=0,label=None, output_dir=None):
    """


Parameters:
    adata : AnnData object loaded into memory or path to AnnData object.

    df_name (string):  
        Label of the spatial analysis performed.
        By default if `sm.tl.spatial_count` was run the results will be saved under `spatial_count` and
        if `sm.tl.spatial_expression` was run, the results will be saved under `spatial_expression`.

    method (string):  
        Clustering method to be used- Implemented methods- kmeans, phenograph and leiden.

    k (int):  
        Number of clusters to return when using K-Means clustering.

    phenotype (string):  
        The column name that contains the cluster/phenotype information.

    n_pcs (int):  
        Number of PC's to be used in leiden clustering. By default it uses all PC's.

    resolution (float):  
        A parameter value controlling the coarseness of the clustering. 
        Higher values lead to more clusters.

    phenograph_clustering_metric (string):  
        Distance metric to define nearest neighbors. Note that performance will be slower for correlation and cosine. 
        Available methods- cityblock’, ‘cosine’, ‘euclidean’, ‘manhattan’, braycurtis’, ‘canberra’, ‘chebyshev’, 
        ‘correlation’, ‘dice’, ‘hamming’, ‘jaccard’, ‘kulsinski’, ‘mahalanobis’, ‘minkowski’, ‘rogerstanimoto’, 
        ‘russellrao’, ‘seuclidean’, ‘sokalmichener’, ‘sokalsneath’, ‘sqeuclidean’, ‘yule’

    nearest_neighbors (int):  
        Number of nearest neighbors to use in first step of graph construction. 
        This parameter is used both in leiden and phenograph clustering.

    random_state (int):  
        Change the initialization of the optimization.

    label (string):  
        Key or optional column name for the returned data, stored in `adata.obs`. The default is adata.obs [spatial_method used].

    output_dir (string):  
        Path to output directory.

Returns:
    adata : AnnData Object  
        Returns an updated anndata object with a new column. check- adata.obs [spatial_method used]

Example:
```python
    adata = sm.tl.spatial_cluster (adata, k= 10, method = 'kmeans') # results will be saved under adata.obs['spatial_kmeans']
```
    """

    # Load the andata object    
    if isinstance(adata, str):
        imid = str(adata.rsplit('/', 1)[-1])
        adata = ad.read(adata)
    else:
        adata = adata

    # Make a copy of adata to modify
    adata_copy = adata.copy()

    # Error check
    try:
        adata_copy.uns[df_name]
    except KeyError:
        print (str('Supplied df_name not found, please run `sm.tl.spatial_expression` or LDA, counts or other similar methods'))

    # Crete a new anndata object with the user defined spatial information
    adata_new = ad.AnnData(adata_copy.uns[df_name].fillna(0))
    adata_new.obs = adata_copy.obs

    # Create a meaningful label name
    if label is None:
        label = 'spatial_' + str(method)

    # Run the clustering algorithm
    adata_new = cluster (adata = adata_new,
                         method = method,
                         k=k, 
                         n_pcs=n_pcs, 
                         resolution=resolution,
                         phenograph_clustering_metric=phenograph_clustering_metric,
                         nearest_neighbors=nearest_neighbors, 
                         use_raw=False, 
                         random_state=random_state,
                         label=label)

    # Get the clusters and append that to original adata object
    result = adata_new.obs[label]
    result = result.reindex(adata.obs.index)
    adata.obs[label] = result


    # Save data if requested
    if output_dir is not None:
        output_dir = pathlib.Path(output_dir)
        output_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
        adata.write(output_dir / imid)
    else:    
        # Return data
        return adata