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Main Authors: Keller, Piotr, Dawood, Muhammad, Chohan, Brinder Singh, Minhas, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05195
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author Keller, Piotr
Dawood, Muhammad
Chohan, Brinder Singh
Minhas, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar
author_facet Keller, Piotr
Dawood, Muhammad
Chohan, Brinder Singh
Minhas, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar
contents Machine learning in computational pathology (CPath) often aggregates patch-level predictions from multi-gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) to generate WSI-level prediction scores for crucial tasks such as survival prediction and drug effect prediction. However, current methods do not explicitly characterize distributional differences between patch sets within WSIs. We introduce HistoKernel, a novel Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) kernel that measures distributional similarity between WSIs for enhanced prediction performance on downstream prediction tasks. Our comprehensive analysis demonstrates HistoKernel's effectiveness across various machine learning tasks, including retrieval (n = 9,362), drug sensitivity regression (n = 551), point mutation classification (n = 3,419), and survival analysis (n = 2,291), outperforming existing deep learning methods. Additionally, HistoKernel seamlessly integrates multi-modal data and offers a novel perturbation-based method for patch-level explainability. This work pioneers the use of kernel-based methods for WSI-level predictive modeling, opening new avenues for research. Code is available at https://github.com/pkeller00/HistoKernel.
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spellingShingle HistoKernel: Whole Slide Image Level Maximum Mean Discrepancy Kernels for Pan-Cancer Predictive Modelling
Keller, Piotr
Dawood, Muhammad
Chohan, Brinder Singh
Minhas, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning in computational pathology (CPath) often aggregates patch-level predictions from multi-gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) to generate WSI-level prediction scores for crucial tasks such as survival prediction and drug effect prediction. However, current methods do not explicitly characterize distributional differences between patch sets within WSIs. We introduce HistoKernel, a novel Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) kernel that measures distributional similarity between WSIs for enhanced prediction performance on downstream prediction tasks. Our comprehensive analysis demonstrates HistoKernel's effectiveness across various machine learning tasks, including retrieval (n = 9,362), drug sensitivity regression (n = 551), point mutation classification (n = 3,419), and survival analysis (n = 2,291), outperforming existing deep learning methods. Additionally, HistoKernel seamlessly integrates multi-modal data and offers a novel perturbation-based method for patch-level explainability. This work pioneers the use of kernel-based methods for WSI-level predictive modeling, opening new avenues for research. Code is available at https://github.com/pkeller00/HistoKernel.
title HistoKernel: Whole Slide Image Level Maximum Mean Discrepancy Kernels for Pan-Cancer Predictive Modelling
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05195