Prediction of gene expression-based breast cancer proliferation scores from histopathology whole slide images using deep learning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In breast cancer, several gene expression assays have been developed to provide a more personalised treatment. This study focuses on the prediction of two molecular proliferation signatures: an 11-gene proliferation score and the MKI67 proliferation marker gene. The aim was to assess whether these could be predicted from digital whole slide images (WSIs) using deep learning models.

Methods

WSIs and RNA-sequencing data from 819 invasive breast cancer patients were included for training, and models were evaluated on an internal test set of 172 cases as well as on 997 cases from a fully independent external test set. Two deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models were optimised using WSIs and gene expression readouts from RNA-sequencing data of either the prolife

SUBMITTER: Ekholm A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11633006 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature