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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2020

Automated classification of protein subcellular localization in immunohistochemistry images to reveal biomarkers in colon cancer.

Zhen-Zhen Xue, Yanxia Wu, Qing-Zu Gao, Liang Zhao, Ying-Ying Xu

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Zhen-Zhen XueSchool of Biomedical Engineering and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Yanxia WuDepartment of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Qing-Zu GaoThe First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.
Liang ZhaoDepartment of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
Ying-Ying XuSchool of Biomedical Engineering and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China. yyxu@smu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3185-811X
Southern Medical University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University · CNGuangdong Medical College · CNNanfang Hospital · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 61803196Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2018030310282
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundProtein biomarkers play important roles in cancer diagnosis. Many efforts have been made on measuring abnormal expression intensity in biological samples to identity cancer types and stages. However, the change of subcellular location of proteins, which is also critical for understanding and detecting diseases, has been rarely studied.

resultsIn this work, we developed a machine learning model to classify protein subcellular locations based on immunohistochemistry images of human colon tissues, and validated the ability of the model to detect subcellular location changes of biomarker proteins related to colon cancer. The model uses representative image patches as inputs, and integrates feature engineering and deep learning methods. It achieves 92.69% accuracy in classification of new proteins. Two validation datasets of colon cancer biomarkers derived from published literatures and the human protein atlas database respectively are employed. It turns out that 81.82 and 65.66% of the biomarker proteins can be identified to change locations.

conclusionsOur results demonstrate that using image patches and combining predefined and deep features can improve the performance of protein subcellular localization, and our model can effectively detect biomarkers based on protein subcellular translocations. This study is anticipated to be useful in annotating unknown subcellular localization for proteins and discovering new potential location biomarkers.

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Biomarkers, TumorColonic NeoplasmsDatabases, ProteinHumansImmunohistochemistryMachine LearningProteinsBiomarkers, TumorProteinsBioimage processingBioinformaticsCancer biomarkersMachine learningProtein subcellular location

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