Calculate the the ANN index of a specified type of cells. Return a list that contains the pattern of cells ("Clustered", "Dispersed", or "Random")

average_nearest_neighbor_index(sce_object, reference_cell, column)

Arguments

sce_object

SingleCellExperiment object in the form of the output of format_image_to_sce

reference_cell

Cells positive for this marker will be used as reference

column

String specify the selected column for reference_cell