All You Need is Color: Image based Spatial Gene Expression Prediction using Neural Stain Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10446v2
• Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:45:21 GMT
• Title: All You Need is Color: Image based Spatial Gene Expression Prediction using Neural Stain Learning
• Authors: Muhammad Dawood, Kim Branson, Nasir M. Rajpoot, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas
• Abstract summary: We propose a "stain-aware" machine learning approach for prediction of spatial transcriptomic gene expression profiles. We have found that the gene expression predictions from the proposed approach show higher correlations with true expression values obtained through sequencing.
• Score: 11.9045433112067
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: "Is it possible to predict expression levels of different genes at a given spatial location in the routine histology image of a tumor section by modeling its stain absorption characteristics?" In this work, we propose a "stain-aware" machine learning approach for prediction of spatial transcriptomic gene expression profiles using digital pathology image of a routine Hematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) histology section. Unlike recent deep learning methods which are used for gene expression prediction, our proposed approach termed Neural Stain Learning (NSL) explicitly models the association of stain absorption characteristics of the tissue with gene expression patterns in spatial transcriptomics by learning a problem-specific stain deconvolution matrix in an end-to-end manner. The proposed method with only 11 trainable weight parameters outperforms both classical regression models with cellular composition and morphological features as well as deep learning methods. We have found that the gene expression predictions from the proposed approach show higher correlations with true expression values obtained through sequencing for a larger set of genes in comparison to other approaches.

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