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ArticleScientific reports2018

Tissue Phenomics for prognostic biomarker discovery in low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

Nathalie Harder, Maria Athelogou, Harald Hessel, Nicolas Brieu, Mehmet Yigitsoy, Johannes Zimmermann, Martin Baatz, Alexander Buchner, Christian G Stief, Thomas Kirchner and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Nathalie HarderDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany. nharder@definiens.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6171-6462
Maria AthelogouDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.
Harald HesselInstitute for Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8718-5479
Nicolas BrieuDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.
Mehmet YigitsoyDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6598-0933
Johannes ZimmermannDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.
Martin BaatzDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.
Alexander BuchnerDepartment of Urology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7895-7070
Christian G StiefDepartment of Urology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Thomas KirchnerInstitute for Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Gerd BinnigDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.
Günter SchmidtDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.
Ralf HussDefiniens AG, Munich, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tissue Phenomics is the discipline of mining tissue images to identify patterns that are related to clinical outcome providing potential prognostic and predictive value. This involves the discovery process from assay development, image analysis, and data mining to the final interpretation and validation of the findings. Importantly, this process is not linear but allows backward steps and optimization loops over multiple sub-processes. We provide a detailed description of the Tissue Phenomics methodology while exemplifying each step on the application of prostate cancer recurrence prediction. In particular, we automatically identified tissue-based biomarkers having significant prognostic value for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients (Gleason scores 6-7b) after radical prostatectomy. We found that promising phenes were related to CD8(+) and CD68(+) cells in the microenvironment of cancerous glands in combination with the local micro-vascularization. Recurrence prediction based on the selected phenes yielded accuracies up to 83% thereby clearly outperforming prediction based on the Gleason score. Moreover, we compared different machine learning algorithms to combine the most relevant phenes resulting in increased accuracies of 88% for tumor progression prediction. These findings will be of potential use for future prognostic tests for prostate cancer patients and provide a proof-of-principle of the Tissue Phenomics approach.

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AdultAgedAntigens, CDAntigens, Differentiation, MyelomonocyticBiomarkers, TumorCD68 MoleculeCD8 AntigensDisease ProgressionHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMachine LearningMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm GradingNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPrognosisAntigens, CDAntigens, Differentiation, MyelomonocyticBiomarkers, TumorCD68 antigen, humanCD68 MoleculeCD8 Antigens

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PMCPMC5849604

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