Breast cancer outcome prediction with tumour tissue images and machine learning release_3guvw4nfjnggtnuas3o4nj2ady

by Riku Turkki, Dmitrii Byckhov, Mikael Lundin, Jorma Isola, Stig Nordling, Panu E. Kovanen, Clare Verrill, Karl von Smitten, Heikki Joensuu, Johan Lundin, Nina Linder

Published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment by Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

2019   Volume 177, Issue 1, p41-52

Abstract

Recent advances in machine learning have enabled better understanding of large and complex visual data. Here, we aim to investigate patient outcome prediction with a machine learning method using only an image of tumour sample as an input. Utilising tissue microarray (TMA) samples obtained from the primary tumour of patients (N = 1299) within a nationwide breast cancer series with long-term-follow-up, we train and validate a machine learning method for patient outcome prediction. The prediction is performed by classifying samples into low or high digital risk score (DRS) groups. The outcome classifier is trained using sample images of 868 patients and evaluated and compared with human expert classification in a test set of 431 patients. In univariate survival analysis, the DRS classification resulted in a hazard ratio of 2.10 (95% CI 1.33-3.32, p = 0.001) for breast cancer-specific survival. The DRS classification remained as an independent predictor of breast cancer-specific survival in a multivariate Cox model with a hazard ratio of 2.04 (95% CI 1.20-3.44, p = 0.007). The accuracy (C-index) of the DRS grouping was 0.60 (95% CI 0.55-0.65), as compared to 0.58 (95% CI 0.53-0.63) for human expert predictions based on the same TMA samples. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of learning prognostic signals in tumour tissue images without domain knowledge. Although further validation is needed, our study suggests that machine learning algorithms can extract prognostically relevant information from tumour histology complementing the currently used prognostic factors in breast cancer.
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