Understanding Breast Cancer Survival: Using Causality and Language Models on Multi-omics Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18410v1
• Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 17:07:46 GMT
• Title: Understanding Breast Cancer Survival: Using Causality and Language Models on Multi-omics Data
• Authors: Mugariya Farooq, Shahad Hardan, Aigerim Zhumbhayeva, Yujia Zheng, Preslav Nakov, Kun Zhang
• Abstract summary: We exploit causal discovery algorithms to investigate how perturbations in the genome can affect the survival of patients diagnosed with breast cancer. Our findings reveal important factors related to the vital status of patients using causal discovery algorithms. Results are validated through language models trained on biomedical literature.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The need for more usable and explainable machine learning models in healthcare increases the importance of developing and utilizing causal discovery algorithms, which aim to discover causal relations by analyzing observational data. Explainable approaches aid clinicians and biologists in predicting the prognosis of diseases and suggesting proper treatments. However, very little research has been conducted at the crossroads between causal discovery, genomics, and breast cancer, and we aim to bridge this gap. Moreover, evaluation of causal discovery methods on real data is in general notoriously difficult because ground-truth causal relations are usually unknown, and accordingly, in this paper, we also propose to address the evaluation problem with large language models. In particular, we exploit suitable causal discovery algorithms to investigate how various perturbations in the genome can affect the survival of patients diagnosed with breast cancer. We used three main causal discovery algorithms: PC, Greedy Equivalence Search (GES), and a Generalized Precision Matrix-based one. We experiment with a subset of The Cancer Genome Atlas, which contains information about mutations, copy number variations, protein levels, and gene expressions for 705 breast cancer patients. Our findings reveal important factors related to the vital status of patients using causal discovery algorithms. However, the reliability of these results remains a concern in the medical domain. Accordingly, as another contribution of the work, the results are validated through language models trained on biomedical literature, such as BlueBERT and other large language models trained on medical corpora. Our results profess proper utilization of causal discovery algorithms and language models for revealing reliable causal relations for clinical applications.

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