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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2024

Graph Perceiver Network for Lung Tumor and Bronchial Premalignant Lesion Stratification from Histopathology.

Rushin H Gindra, Yi Zheng, Emily J Green, Mary E Reid, Sarah A Mazzilli, Daniel T Merrick, Eric J Burks, Vijaya B Kolachalama, Jennifer E Beane

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2024. 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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4citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Rushin H GindraDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany; Center for Translational Cancer Research, School of Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Yi ZhengDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Emily J GreenDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mary E ReidRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York.
Sarah A MazzilliDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Daniel T MerrickDepartment of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Eric J BurksDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vijaya B KolachalamaDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: vkola@bu.edu.
Jennifer E BeaneDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: jbeane@bu.edu.
Boston University · USRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

Project-005UL1TR001430 · NCATS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI BAIR-MERRITT, MEGAN H, CENTER, DAVID M. · 2015 to 2024
$52.3M
Utilizing Technology and AI Approaches to Facilitate Independence andResilience in Older AdultsP30AG073104 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Alexis Battle · 2021 to 2026
$31.2M
The Lung PCA: A Multi-Dimensional Atlas of Pulmonary PremalignancyU2CCA233238 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI SPIRA, AVRUM E · 2018 to 2021
$7.0M
Mechanisms of drug-coated balloon therapyR01HL159620 · NHLBI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI KOLACHALAMA, VIJAYA B. · 2021 to 2024
$2.1M
Cognitive Heterogeneity in those with high Alzheimer's Disease RiskRF1AG062109 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI AU, RHODA · 2020 to 2021
$1.8M
PRISTINE: Pre-cancer histology identification of Endobronchial biopsies using deep learningR21CA253498 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI BEANE, JENNIFER ELLEN, KOLACHALAMA, VIJAYA B. · 2020 to 2020
$424k
Smartphone image analysis for real time adequacy assessment during kidney biopsyR43DK134273 · NIDDK · NEPHROPATHOLOGY ASSOCIATES · PI KOLACHALAMA, VIJAYA B., SHARMA, SHREE GOPAL · 2022 to 2022
$252k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001430NCI NIH HHS R21 CA253498NCI NIH HHS U2C CA233238NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL159620NIA NIH HHS P30 AG073104NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG062109NIDDK NIH HHS R43 DK134273
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bronchial premalignant lesions (PMLs) precede the development of invasive lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), posing a significant challenge in distinguishing those likely to advance to LUSC from those that might regress without intervention. This study followed a novel computational approach, the Graph Perceiver Network, leveraging hematoxylin and eosin-stained whole slide images to stratify endobronchial biopsies of PMLs across a spectrum from normal to tumor lung tissues. The Graph Perceiver Network outperformed existing frameworks in classification accuracy predicting LUSC, lung adenocarcinoma, and nontumor lung tissue on The Cancer Genome Atlas and Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium datasets containing lung resection tissues while efficiently generating pathologist-aligned, class-specific heatmaps. The network was further tested using endobronchial biopsies from two data cohorts, containing normal to carcinoma in situ histology. It demonstrated a unique capability to differentiate carcinoma in situ lung squamous PMLs based on their progression status to invasive carcinoma. The network may have utility in stratifying PMLs for chemoprevention trials or more aggressive follow-up.

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Carcinoma, Squamous CellLung NeoplasmsPrecancerous ConditionsHumans

Identifiers

PMID38588853
PMCPMC11220922
OpenAlexW4394015447

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