Multimodal Prototyping for cancer survival prediction

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Autores principales: Song, Andrew H., Chen, Richard J., Jaume, Guillaume, Vaidya, Anurag J., Baras, Alexander S., Mahmood, Faisal
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author Song, Andrew H.
Chen, Richard J.
Jaume, Guillaume
Vaidya, Anurag J.
Baras, Alexander S.
Mahmood, Faisal
author_facet Song, Andrew H.
Chen, Richard J.
Jaume, Guillaume
Vaidya, Anurag J.
Baras, Alexander S.
Mahmood, Faisal
contents Multimodal survival methods combining gigapixel histology whole-slide images (WSIs) and transcriptomic profiles are particularly promising for patient prognostication and stratification. Current approaches involve tokenizing the WSIs into smaller patches (>10,000 patches) and transcriptomics into gene groups, which are then integrated using a Transformer for predicting outcomes. However, this process generates many tokens, which leads to high memory requirements for computing attention and complicates post-hoc interpretability analyses. Instead, we hypothesize that we can: (1) effectively summarize the morphological content of a WSI by condensing its constituting tokens using morphological prototypes, achieving more than 300x compression; and (2) accurately characterize cellular functions by encoding the transcriptomic profile with biological pathway prototypes, all in an unsupervised fashion. The resulting multimodal tokens are then processed by a fusion network, either with a Transformer or an optimal transport cross-alignment, which now operates with a small and fixed number of tokens without approximations. Extensive evaluation on six cancer types shows that our framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods with much less computation while unlocking new interpretability analyses.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Prototyping for cancer survival prediction
Song, Andrew H.
Chen, Richard J.
Jaume, Guillaume
Vaidya, Anurag J.
Baras, Alexander S.
Mahmood, Faisal
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Multimodal survival methods combining gigapixel histology whole-slide images (WSIs) and transcriptomic profiles are particularly promising for patient prognostication and stratification. Current approaches involve tokenizing the WSIs into smaller patches (>10,000 patches) and transcriptomics into gene groups, which are then integrated using a Transformer for predicting outcomes. However, this process generates many tokens, which leads to high memory requirements for computing attention and complicates post-hoc interpretability analyses. Instead, we hypothesize that we can: (1) effectively summarize the morphological content of a WSI by condensing its constituting tokens using morphological prototypes, achieving more than 300x compression; and (2) accurately characterize cellular functions by encoding the transcriptomic profile with biological pathway prototypes, all in an unsupervised fashion. The resulting multimodal tokens are then processed by a fusion network, either with a Transformer or an optimal transport cross-alignment, which now operates with a small and fixed number of tokens without approximations. Extensive evaluation on six cancer types shows that our framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods with much less computation while unlocking new interpretability analyses.
title Multimodal Prototyping for cancer survival prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00224