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ArticleScientific reports2023

Interpretable deep learning for improving cancer patient survival based on personal transcriptomes.

Bo Sun, Liang Chen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Pathway-guided architectures for interpretable AI in biological research.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Bo SunDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, 1050 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Liang ChenDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, 1050 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA. liang.chen@usc.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6164-4553

Funding

The Role of NMD in Cortical Neural Progenitor CellsR01NS125276 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI Sika Zheng · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
PATHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY OF THE NEURONAL FIBROUS PROTEINSR01NS015076 · NINDS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI SHELANSKI, MICHAEL L · 1985 to 2007
$2.5M
The Regulation and Function of Neuron-Specific Alternative SplicingR01NS104041 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI ZHENG, SIKA · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Understanding the NMD regulatory path from genetic variation to phenotypesR01GM137428 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHEN, LIANG · 2020 to 2023
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM137428NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS015076NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104041NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS125276
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precision medicine chooses the optimal drug for a patient by considering individual differences. With the tremendous amount of data accumulated for cancers, we develop an interpretable neural network to predict cancer patient survival based on drug prescriptions and personal transcriptomes (CancerIDP). The deep learning model achieves 96% classification accuracy in distinguishing short-lived from long-lived patients. The Pearson correlation between predicted and actual months-to-death values is as high as 0.937. About 27.4% of patients may survive longer with an alternative medicine chosen by our deep learning model. The median survival time of all patients can increase by 3.9 months. Our interpretable neural network model reveals the most discriminating pathways in the decision-making process, which will further facilitate mechanistic studies of drug development for cancers.

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Deep LearningNeoplasmsHumansNeural Networks, ComputerResearchTranscriptome

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PMID37443344
PMCPMC10344908

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