A Deep Learning Framework for Predicting Response to Therapy in Cancer.

Sakellaropoulos T, Vougas K, Narang S, Koinis F, Kotsinas A, Polyzos A, Moss TJ, Piha-Paul S, Zhou H, Kardala E, Damianidou E, Alexopoulos LG, Aifantis I, Townsend PA, Panayiotidis MI, Sfikakis P, Bartek J, Fitzgerald RC, Thanos D, Mills Shaw KR, Petty R, Tsirigos A, Gorgoulis VG

Cell Reports 29 (11) 3367-3373.e4 [2019-12-10; online 2019-12-12]

A major challenge in cancer treatment is predicting clinical response to anti-cancer drugs on a personalized basis. Using a pharmacogenomics database of 1,001 cancer cell lines, we trained deep neural networks for prediction of drug response and assessed their performance on multiple clinical cohorts. We demonstrate that deep neural networks outperform the current state in machine learning frameworks. We provide a proof of concept for the use of deep neural network-based frameworks to aid precision oncology strategies.

PubMed 31825821

DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.017

Crossref 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.017

pii: S2211-1247(19)31488-3


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