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Classification and mutation prediction from non–small cell lung cancer histopathology images using deep learning
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Visual inspection of histopathology slides is one of the main methods used by pathologists to assess the stage, type and subtype of lung tumors. Adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) are the most prevalent subtypes of lung cancer, and their distinction requires visual inspection by an experienced pathologist. In this study, we trained a deep convolutional neural network (inception v3) on whole-slide images obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas to accurately and automatically classify them into LUAD, LUSC or normal lung tissue. The performance of our method is comparable to that of pathologists, with an average area under the curve (AUC) of 0.97. Our model was validated on independent datasets of frozen tissues, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues and biopsies. Furthermore, we trained the network to predict the ten most commonly mutated genes in LUAD. We found that six of them-STK11, EGFR, FAT1, SETBP1, KRAS and TP53-can be predicted from pathology images, with AUCs from 0.733 to 0.856 as measured on a held-out population. These findings suggest that deep-learning models can assist pathologists in the detection of cancer subtype or gene mutations. Our approach can be applied to any cancer type, and the code is available at https://github.com/ncoudray/DeepPATH .
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“By design, these patch-level approaches ignore up to 99% of the total tissue, miss potentially diagnostically relevant areas, and cannot be applied to tasks that require the full context of the entire tissue sample (e.g., tumor thickness prediction).”
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“which may result from prognostic information also partially explained via genomics as aberrations such as ERBB2 or KRAS mutation and the presence of microsatellite instability can be determined from histology (Coudray et al., 2018;Kather et al.,2019,2020;Gamble et al.,2021).”
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“Coudray et al. proposed that specific gene alterations might influence the morphological appearance of cancer cells on histologic slides; by training neural networks, they were able to predict the ten most frequent mutations in lung adenocarcinoma [36].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Coudray, N., Ocampo, P. S., Sakellaropoulos, T., Narula, N., Snuderl, M., Fenyö, D., Moreira, A. L., Razavian, N., & Tsirigos, A.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- National Technical University of Athens (GR)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Razavian, Narges
- Tsirigos, Aristotelis
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Medicine
- Published
- 2018-09-17
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1559-1567
- ISSN
- 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-170X
- PMC
- PMC9847512
- OpenAlex
- W2760946358
- Cited by
- 2,930
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 349 · 2025: 380 · 2024: 380 · 2023: 436 · 2022: 452 · 2021: 415 · 2020: 319 · 2019: 183 · 2018: 10
- FWCI
- 130.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- NYU Langone Medical Center
- School of Medicine, New York University
- National Cancer Institute (P30CA016087)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in cancer detection
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- non-small cell lung cancer, lung adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, histopathological image classification, whole slide images, gene mutation prediction, STK11, EGFR, FAT1, SETBP1, KRAS, TP53, computer-aided diagnosis, frozen tissue, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue, biopsy
- MeSH terms
- Deep Learning, Adenocarcinoma, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Humans, Mutation, Neoplasm Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Neural Networks, Computer
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