scholarly journals A novel method for classification of tabular data using convolutional neural networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubomir Buturović ◽  
Dejan Miljković
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Tabular Data ◽  
Fixed Base ◽  
Novel Method

ABSTRACTConvolutional neural networks (CNNs) represent a major breakthrough in image classification. However, there has not been similar progress in applying CNNs, or neural networks of any kind, to classification of tabular data. We developed and evaluated a novel method, TAbular Convolution (TAC), for classification of such data using CNNs by transforming tabular data to images and then classifying the images using CNNs. The transformation is performed by treating each row of tabular data (i.e., vector of features) as an image filter (kernel), and applying the filter to a fixed base image. A CNN is then trained to classify the filtered images. We applied TAC to classification of gene expression data derived from blood samples of patients with bacterial or viral infections. Our results demonstrate that off-the-shelf ResNet can classify the gene expression data as accurately as the current non-CNN state-of-the-art classifiers.

scholarly journals Explaining decisions of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks: patient-specific molecular subnetworks responsible for metastasis prediction in breast cancer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hryhorii Chereda ◽  
Annalen Bleckmann ◽  
Kerstin Menck ◽  
Júlia Perera-Bel ◽  
Philip Stegmaier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Gene Expression ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Molecular Network ◽  
Patient Specific ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Learning Methods

AbstractMotivationContemporary deep learning approaches show cutting-edge performance in a variety of complex prediction tasks. Nonetheless, the application of deep learning in healthcare remains limited since deep learning methods are often considered as non-interpretable black-box models. Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) is a technique to explain decisions of deep learning methods. It is widely used to interpret Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) applied on image data. Recently, CNNs started to extend towards non-euclidean domains like graphs. Molecular networks are commonly represented as graphs detailing interactions between molecules. Gene expression data can be assigned to the vertices of these graphs. In other words, gene expression data can be structured by utilizing molecular network information as prior knowledge. Graph-CNNs can be applied to structured gene expression data, for example, to predict metastatic events in breast cancer. Therefore, there is a need for explanations showing which part of a molecular network is relevant for predicting an event, e.g. distant metastasis in cancer, for each individual patient.ResultsWe extended the procedure of LRP to make it available for Graph-CNN and tested its applicability on a large breast cancer dataset. We present Graph Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (GLRP) as a new method to explain the decisions made by Graph-CNNs. We demonstrate a sanity check of the developed GLRP on a hand-written digits dataset, and then applied the method on gene expression data. We show that GLRP provides patient-specific molecular subnetworks that largely agree with clinical knowledge and identify common as well as novel, and potentially druggable, drivers of tumor progression. As a result this method could be potentially highly useful on interpreting classification results on the individual patient level, as for example in precision medicine approaches or a molecular tumor board.Availabilityhttps://gitlab.gwdg.de/UKEBpublic/graph-lrphttps://frankkramer-lab.github.io/MetaRelSubNetVis/[email protected]

scholarly journals Transfer learning with convolutional neural networks for cancer survival prediction using gene-expression data

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. e0230536
Author(s):  
Guillermo López-García ◽  
José M. Jerez ◽  
Leonardo Franco ◽  
Francisco J. Veredas
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Cancer Survival ◽  
Survival Prediction ◽  
Expression Data

scholarly journals Collaborative Cross Founder Expression Analysis (CCFEA)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R Green ◽  
Renee C Ireton ◽  
Martin Ferris ◽  
Kathleen Muenzen ◽  
David R Crosslin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Collaborative Cross ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Individual Gene ◽  
Rnaseq Data

To understand the role of genetic variation in SARS and Influenza infections we developed CCFEA, a shiny visualization tool using public RNAseq data from the collaborative cross (CC) founder strains (A/J, C57BL/6J, 129s1/SvImJ, NOD/ShILtJ, NZO/HILtJ, CAST/EiJ, PWK/PhJ, and WSB/EiJ). Individual gene expression data is displayed across founders, viral infections and days post infection.

scholarly journals A Graph Feature Auto-Encoder for the prediction of unobserved node features on biological networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramin Hasibi ◽  
Tom Michoel
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Biological Networks ◽  
Molecular Interaction ◽  
Interaction Networks ◽  
Omics Data ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Molecular Interaction Networks ◽  
Graph Neural Networks

Abstract Background Molecular interaction networks summarize complex biological processes as graphs, whose structure is informative of biological function at multiple scales. Simultaneously, omics technologies measure the variation or activity of genes, proteins, or metabolites across individuals or experimental conditions. Integrating the complementary viewpoints of biological networks and omics data is an important task in bioinformatics, but existing methods treat networks as discrete structures, which are intrinsically difficult to integrate with continuous node features or activity measures. Graph neural networks map graph nodes into a low-dimensional vector space representation, and can be trained to preserve both the local graph structure and the similarity between node features. Results We studied the representation of transcriptional, protein–protein and genetic interaction networks in E. coli and mouse using graph neural networks. We found that such representations explain a large proportion of variation in gene expression data, and that using gene expression data as node features improves the reconstruction of the graph from the embedding. We further proposed a new end-to-end Graph Feature Auto-Encoder framework for the prediction of node features utilizing the structure of the gene networks, which is trained on the feature prediction task, and showed that it performs better at predicting unobserved node features than regular MultiLayer Perceptrons. When applied to the problem of imputing missing data in single-cell RNAseq data, the Graph Feature Auto-Encoder utilizing our new graph convolution layer called FeatGraphConv outperformed a state-of-the-art imputation method that does not use protein interaction information, showing the benefit of integrating biological networks and omics data with our proposed approach. Conclusion Our proposed Graph Feature Auto-Encoder framework is a powerful approach for integrating and exploiting the close relation between molecular interaction networks and functional genomics data.

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