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基于共表达卷积神经网络的组学范围前列腺癌基因表达预测:从组织病理学图像到转录组

Transcriptome-wide prediction of prostate cancer gene expression from histopathology images using co-expression based convolutional neural networks

Karolinska Institutet(卡罗林斯卡学院);Tampere University(坦佩雷大学);Science for Life Laboratory(生命科学实验室)

Philippe Weitz, Yinxi Wang, Kimmo Kartasalo, Lars Egevad, Johan Lindberg, Henrik Grönberg, Martin Eklund, Mattias Rantalainen

AI总结:

本研究提出一种基于共表达卷积神经网络的高效方法,利用H&E染色全切片图像预测前列腺癌基因表达,首次实现转录组范围分析,并在370例TCGA数据中验证了数千个基因的预测准确性。

摘要:

通过基因表达谱进行分子表型分析在当代癌症研究和分子诊断中很常见。然而,分子谱分析在实施上仍然昂贵且资源密集,并且刚刚开始被引入临床诊断。肿瘤中发生的分子变化,包括遗传改变和基因表达变化,会引起组织形态学变化,这些变化可以在显微镜水平上观察到。形态模式与某些分子表型之间的关系可以被利用,通过深度卷积神经网络(CNNs)直接从常规苏木精-伊红(H&E)染色的全切片图像(WSIs)预测分子表型。在本研究中,我们提出了一种新的、计算高效的方法,用于疾病特异性的形态与基因表达关系建模,并进行了前列腺癌中首次转录组范围分析,使用CNNs从H&E染色组织的WSIs预测批量RNA测序估计值。该工作基于TCGA PRAD研究,包括370名患者的WSIs和RNA-seq数据。在15586个蛋白编码且表达频率足够的转录本中,6618个在交叉验证中其预测表达与RNA-seq估计值显著相关(FDR校正p值<1*10-4)。其中5419个(81.9%)在独立的测试集中得到验证。我们还展示了直接从WSIs预测前列腺癌特异性细胞周期进展评分的能力。这些发现表明,当代计算机视觉模型提供了一种廉价且可扩展的解决方案,可直接从WSIs预测基因表达表型,为具有成本效益的大规模研究研究和分子诊断提供了机会。

英文摘要:

Molecular phenotyping by gene expression profiling is common in contemporary cancer research and in molecular diagnostics. However, molecular profiling remains costly and resource intense to implement, and is just starting to be introduced into clinical diagnostics. Molecular changes, including genetic alterations and gene expression changes, occuring in tumors cause morphological changes in tissue, which can be observed on the microscopic level. The relationship between morphological patterns and some of the molecular phenotypes can be exploited to predict molecular phenotypes directly from routine haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained whole slide images (WSIs) using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this study, we propose a new, computationally efficient approach for disease specific modelling of relationships between morphology and gene expression, and we conducted the first transcriptome-wide analysis in prostate cancer, using CNNs to predict bulk RNA-sequencing estimates from WSIs of H&E stained tissue. The work is based on the TCGA PRAD study and includes both WSIs and RNA-seq data for 370 patients. Out of 15586 protein coding and sufficiently frequently expressed transcripts, 6618 had predicted expression significantly associated with RNA-seq estimates (FDR-adjusted p-value < 1*10-4) in a cross-validation. 5419 (81.9%) of these were subsequently validated in a held-out test set. We also demonstrate the ability to predict a prostate cancer specific cell cycle progression score directly from WSIs. These findings suggest that contemporary computer vision models offer an inexpensive and scalable solution for prediction of gene expression phenotypes directly from WSIs, providing opportunity for cost-effective large-scale research studies and molecular diagnostics.

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