Title
NMFLRR: Clustering scRNA-Seq Data by Integrating Nonnegative Matrix Factorization With Low Rank Representation
Abstract
Fast-developing single-cell technologies create unprecedented opportunities to reveal cell heterogeneity and diversity. Accurate classification of single cells is a critical prerequisite for recovering the mechanisms of heterogeneity. However, the scRNA-seq profiles we obtained at present have high dimensionality, sparsity, and noise, which pose challenges for existing clustering methods in grouping cells that belong to the same subpopulation based on transcriptomic profiles. Although many computational methods have been proposed developing novel and effective computational methods to accurately identify cell types remains a considerable challenge. We present a new computational framework to identify cell types by integrating low-rank representation (LRR) and nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF); this framework is named NMFLRR. The LRR captures the global properties of original data by using nuclear norms, and a locality constrained graph regularization term is introduced to characterize the data’s local geometric information. The similarity matrix and low-dimensional features of data can be simultaneously obtained by applying the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to handle each variable alternatively in an iterative way. We finally obtained the predicted cell types by using a spectral algorithm based on the optimized similarity matrix. Nine real scRNA-seq datasets were used to test the performance of NMFLRR and fifteen other competitive methods, and the accuracy and robustness of the simulation results suggest the NMFLRR is a promising algorithm for the classification of single cells. The simulation code is freely available at: <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/wzhangwhu/NMFLRR_code</uri> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/JBHI.2021.3099127
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Algorithms,Cluster Analysis,Computer Simulation,Humans,Single-Cell Analysis,Transcriptome
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2168-2194
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
21
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhang Wei139253.03
Xiaoli Xue200.34
Xiaoying Zheng300.34
Zizhu Fan400.34