Link to bioRxiv paper:

http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.17.301515v1?rss=1

Authors: Sharma, A., Lysenko, A., Boroevich, K., Vans, E., Tsunoda, T.

Abstract:

Identifying smaller element or gene subsets from biological or other data types is an essential step in discovering underlying mechanisms. Statistical machine learning methods have played a key role in revealing gene subsets. However, growing data complexity is pushing the limits of these techniques. A review of the recent literature shows that arranging elements by similarity in image-form for a convolutional neural network (CNN) improves classification performance over treating them individually. Expanding on this, here we show a pipeline, DeepInsight-FS, to uncover gene subsets of clinical relevance. DeepInsight-FS converts non-image samples into image-form and performs element selection via CNN. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to employ CNN for element or gene selection on non-image data. A real world application of DeepInsight-FS to publicly available cancer data identified gene sets with significant overlap to several cancer-associated pathways suggesting the potential of this method to discover biomedically meaningful connections.

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