PROCESSING MULTIPLEX IMAGES AND ANALYSIS OF IMMUNE ENRICHED SPATIAL PROTEOMIC DATA

Techniques are disclosed herein that encompass image pre-processing and a semi-supervised clustering for optimization and analysis of immune-enriched single-cell proteomics data generated via multiplexed imaging technologies. This is achieved through an image pre-processing pipeline, which converts image data contained in one type of file (e.g., .mcd) into another type of file (e.g., .tiff) and removes artifact signals from the image data using various algorithms to generate improved image data. Thereafter, a semi-supervised clustering pipeline analyzes the improved image data using various techniques, including implementing a supervised algorithm to identify metaclusters such as general immune phenotypes (e.g., CD4−T-cells, Macrophages, Neutrophils, etc.) as well as non-immune phenotypes while implementing an unsupervised algorithm that enables the identification of specific subclusters and a more in-depth cellular status characterization.