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ArticleNature communications2023

Cross-modal autoencoder framework learns holistic representations of cardiovascular state.

Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan, Sam F Friedman, Shaan Khurshid, Kenney Ng, Puneet Batra, Steven A Lubitz, Anthony A Philippakis, Caroline Uhler

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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8 authors.

Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan *Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Sam F Friedman *Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0688-2169
Shaan KhurshidBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.
Kenney NgIBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0792-070X
Puneet BatraBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6822-0593
Steven A LubitzBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA. lubitz@broadinstitute.org.ORCID 0000-0002-9599-4866
Anthony A PhilippakisBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA. aphilipp@broadinstitute.org.ORCID 0000-0001-6953-3794
Caroline UhlerMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. cuhler@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7008-0216

Funding

Genomics of Cardiac ArrhythmiasR01HL139731 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ELLINOR, PATRICK THOMAS · 2018 to 2022
$3.3M
Using Electrocardiogram Genetics to Inform Arrhythmia RiskR01HL157635 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ELLINOR, PATRICK THOMAS, MIRSHAHI, TOORAJ · 2022 to 2025
$2.9M
Causal Representation Learning for the Spatial Analysis of Transcriptomic and Imaging Data in Tissue ContextsDP2AT012345 · NCCIH · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI UHLER, CAROLINE · 2022 to 2025
$2.3M
NCCIH NIH HHS DP2 AT012345NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL139731NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL157635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fundamental challenge in diagnostics is integrating multiple modalities to develop a joint characterization of physiological state. Using the heart as a model system, we develop a cross-modal autoencoder framework for integrating distinct data modalities and constructing a holistic representation of cardiovascular state. In particular, we use our framework to construct such cross-modal representations from cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRIs), containing structural information, and electrocardiograms (ECGs), containing myoelectric information. We leverage the learned cross-modal representation to (1) improve phenotype prediction from a single, accessible phenotype such as ECGs; (2) enable imputation of hard-to-acquire cardiac MRIs from easy-to-acquire ECGs; and (3) develop a framework for performing genome-wide association studies in an unsupervised manner. Our results systematically integrate distinct diagnostic modalities into a common representation that better characterizes physiologic state.

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Cardiovascular SystemGenome-Wide Association StudyElectrocardiographyHeartLearning

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PMID37105979
PMCPMC10140057

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