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Automated classification of cellular expression in multiplexed imaging data with Nimbus

Item Type:Article
Title:Automated classification of cellular expression in multiplexed imaging data with Nimbus
Creators Name:Rumberger, Josef Lorenz, Greenwald, Noah F., Ranek, Jolene S., Boonrat, Potchara, Walker, Cameron, Franzen, Jannik, Varra, Sricharan Reddy, Kong, Alex, Sowers, Cameron, Liu, Candace C., Averbukh, Inna, Piyadasa, Hadeesha, Vanguri, Rami, Nederlof, Iris, Wang, Xuefei Julie, Van Valen, David, Kok, Marleen, Bendall, Sean C., Hollmann, Travis J., Kainmueller, Dagmar and Angelo, Michael
Abstract:Multiplexed imaging offers a powerful approach to characterize the spatial topography of tissues in both health and disease. To analyze such data, the specific combination of markers that are present in each cell must be enumerated to enable accurate phenotyping, a process that often relies on unsupervised clustering. We constructed the Pan-Multiplex (Pan-M) dataset containing 197 million distinct annotations of marker expression across 15 different cell types. We used Pan-M to create Nimbus, a deep learning model to predict marker positivity from multiplexed image data. Nimbus is a pretrained model that uses the underlying images to classify marker expression of individual cells as positive or negative across distinct cell types, from different tissues, acquired using different microscope platforms, without requiring any retraining. We demonstrate that Nimbus predictions capture the underlying staining patterns of the full diversity of markers present in Pan-M, and that Nimbus matches or exceeds the accuracy of previous approaches that must be retrained on each dataset. We then show how Nimbus predictions can be integrated with downstream clustering algorithms to robustly identify cell subtypes in image data. We have open-sourced Nimbus and Pan-M to enable community use at https://github.com/angelolab/Nimbus-Inference.
Source:Nature Methods
ISSN:1548-7091
Publisher:Nature Publishing Group
Date:8 October 2025
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02826-9
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