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ArticleGenome biology2023

PAUSE: principled feature attribution for unsupervised gene expression analysis.

Joseph D Janizek, Anna Spiro, Safiye Celik, Ben W Blue, John C Russell, Ting-I Lee, Matt Kaeberlin, Su-In Lee

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Article in Genome biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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  9. Interpretable deep learning in single-cell omics.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Joseph D JanizekPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Anna SpiroPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Safiye CelikRecursion Pharmaceuticals, Salt Lake City, USA.
Ben W BlueDepartment of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
John C RussellDepartment of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Ting-I LeeDepartment of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Matt KaeberlinDepartment of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Su-In LeePaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. suinlee@cs.washington.edu.

Funding

University of Washington Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of AgingP30AG013280 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Maitreya J Dunham · 1995 to 2026
$27.1M
Neurobehavior, Neuropathology, and Risk Factors in Alzheimer's DiseaseT32AG052354 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Brian C. Kraemer, ELAINE R. PESKIND · 2016 to 2026
$6.7M
Interpretable Machine Learning to Identify Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutic TargetsR01AG061132 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LEE, SU-IN · 2019 to 2023
$2.9M
Opening the Black Box of Machine Learning ModelsR35GM128638 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LEE, SU-IN · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG013280NIA NIH HHS R01 AG061132NIA NIH HHS T32 AG052354NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128638
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As interest in using unsupervised deep learning models to analyze gene expression data has grown, an increasing number of methods have been developed to make these models more interpretable. These methods can be separated into two groups: post hoc analyses of black box models through feature attribution methods and approaches to build inherently interpretable models through biologically-constrained architectures. We argue that these approaches are not mutually exclusive, but can in fact be usefully combined. We propose PAUSE ( https://github.com/suinleelab/PAUSE ), an unsupervised pathway attribution method that identifies major sources of transcriptomic variation when combined with biologically-constrained neural network models.

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Gene Expression ProfilingTranscriptomeNeural Networks, ComputerDeep learningExplainable AIFeature attributionGene expressionTranscriptomicsUnsupervised learning

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PMID37076856
PMCPMC10114348

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