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ArticleOncoimmunology2021

Novel deep learning-based survival prediction for oral cancer by analyzing tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte profiles through CIBERSORT.

Yeongjoo Kim, Ji Wan Kang, Junho Kang, Eun Jung Kwon, Mihyang Ha, Yoon Kyeong Kim, Hansong Lee, Je-Keun Rhee, Yun Hak Kim

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Article in Oncoimmunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yeongjoo KimInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Ji Wan KangInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Junho KangInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Eun Jung KwonInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Mihyang HaInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Yoon Kyeong KimInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Hansong LeeInterdisplinary Program of Genomic Science, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Je-Keun RheeSchool of Systems Biomedical Science, Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Yun Hak KimDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Republic of Korea.
Pusan National University · KRSoongsil University · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tumor microenvironment (TME) within mucosal neoplastic tissue in oral cancer (ORCA) is greatly influenced by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Here, a clustering method was performed using CIBERSORT profiles of ORCA data that were filtered from the publicly accessible data of patients with head and neck cancer in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) using hierarchical clustering where patients were regrouped into binary risk groups based on the clustering-measuring scores and survival patterns associated with individual groups. Based on this analysis, clinically reasonable differences were identified in 16 out of 22 TIL fractions between groups. A deep neural network classifier was trained using the TIL fraction patterns. This internally validated classifier was used on another individual ORCA dataset from the International Cancer Genome Consortium data portal, and patient survival patterns were precisely predicted. Seven common differentially expressed genes between the two risk groups were obtained. This new approach confirms the importance of TILs in the TME and provides a direction for the use of a novel deep-learning approach for cancer prognosis.

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Deep LearningMouth NeoplasmsHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingPrognosisTumor Microenvironmentcibersortdeep learningHead and neck cancerinternational cancer genome consortiumoral cancerthe cancer genome atlastumor-infiltrating lymphocytestumor microenvironment

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PMID33854823
PMCPMC8018482
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