Deep learning for tumor classification in imaging mass spectrometry
Abstract Motivation Tumor classification using imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) data has a high potential for future applications in pathology. Due to the complexity and size of the data, automated feature extraction and classification steps are required to fully process the data. Since mass spectra...
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Published in | Bioinformatics Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 1215 - 1223 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Oxford University Press
01.04.2018
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Summary: | Abstract
Motivation
Tumor classification using imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) data has a high potential for future applications in pathology. Due to the complexity and size of the data, automated feature extraction and classification steps are required to fully process the data. Since mass spectra exhibit certain structural similarities to image data, deep learning may offer a promising strategy for classification of IMS data as it has been successfully applied to image classification.
Results
Methodologically, we propose an adapted architecture based on deep convolutional networks to handle the characteristics of mass spectrometry data, as well as a strategy to interpret the learned model in the spectral domain based on a sensitivity analysis. The proposed methods are evaluated on two algorithmically challenging tumor classification tasks and compared to a baseline approach. Competitiveness of the proposed methods is shown on both tasks by studying the performance via cross-validation. Moreover, the learned models are analyzed by the proposed sensitivity analysis revealing biologically plausible effects as well as confounding factors of the considered tasks. Thus, this study may serve as a starting point for further development of deep learning approaches in IMS classification tasks.
Availability and implementation
https://gitlab.informatik.uni-bremen.de/digipath/Deep_Learning_for_Tumor_Classification_in_IMS.
Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. |
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ISSN: | 1367-4803 1460-2059 1367-4811 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx724 |