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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2022

Counting is almost all you need.

Ofek Akerman, Haim Isakov, Reut Levi, Vladimir Psevkin, Yoram Louzoun

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Ofek AkermanDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Haim IsakovDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Reut LeviDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Vladimir PsevkinDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Yoram LouzounDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune memory repertoire encodes the history of present and past infections and immunological attributes of the individual. As such, multiple methods were proposed to use T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires to detect disease history. We here show that the counting method outperforms two leading algorithms. We then show that the counting can be further improved using a novel attention model to weigh the different TCRs. The attention model is based on the projection of TCRs using a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE). Both counting and attention algorithms predict better than current leading algorithms whether the host had CMV and its HLA alleles. As an intermediate solution between the complex attention model and the very simple counting model, we propose a new Graph Convolutional Network approach that obtains the accuracy of the attention model and the simplicity of the counting model. The code for the models used in the paper is provided at: https://github.com/louzounlab/CountingIsAlmostAllYouNeed.

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AlgorithmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellImmunologic MemoryReceptors, Antigen, T-Cellattentiongraphsimmune repertoireimmunologymachine learningrepertoire classificationT cells

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PMID36741395
PMCPMC9896581

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