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Characterization of the dynamic infiltration changes of microenvironment cells during cervical carcinogenesis would contribute to a better understanding of involved mechanisms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Three public gene expression datasets of cervical squamous epithelium samples were collected and combined. We applied seven up-to-date computational methods for infiltrating estimation and compared their results (CD4<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> and CD8<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T cells) to the known fraction. After benchmarking the applied methods, the cell filtration patterns were determined and clustered through fuzzy c-means algorithm.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Most methods displayed better performance in predicting the abundance of CD4<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T cell than that of CD8<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T cell. The infiltration patterns of 33 microenvironment cell types (including 31 immune cells and 2 non-immune cells) were determined, and five immune cell clusters with distinct features were then derived. 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