Figure 1.
Construction and validation of cold and hot immune subtypes in TCGA-LUAD patients. (A–C) K = 2 was determined as the optimal value for Consensus clustering analysis. (D) UAMP plot of LUAD patients: cluster 1 (hot, n = 243) patients in red and cluster 2 (cold, n = 274) patients in blue. (E) Histopathological picture of the tumor tissue (H&E staining) and its TIL pattern (https://cancerimagingarchive.net/datascope/TCGA_TilMap). The TIL pattern is identified by a convolutional neural network, where red pixels denote TIL patches, blue pixels denote non-TIL tissue patches, and black pixels denote non-tissue patches. (F) Distribution of CYT score, Immune score, Stromal score, ESTIMATE score, and MHC score of patients in both immune subtypes. The abundance of immune cell infiltration in patients with both immune phenotypes was calculated using TIMER. (G) Sankey diagrams of TME subtypes corresponding to different immune phenotypes patients. (H) Prognostic differences between patients with different immune phenotypes. (***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05).