School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China.
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
J Theor Biol. 2024 Jun 7;586:111816. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111816. Epub 2024 Apr 6.
Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has greatly improved the survival of cancer patients in the past few years, but only a small number of patients respond to ICT. To predict ICT response, we developed a multi-modal feature fusion model based on deep learning (MFMDL). This model utilizes graph neural networks to map gene-gene relationships in gene networks to low dimensional vector spaces, and then fuses biological pathway features and immune cell infiltration features to make robust predictions of ICT. We used five datasets to validate the predictive performance of the MFMDL. These five datasets span multiple types of cancer, including melanoma, lung cancer, and gastric cancer. We found that the prediction performance of multi-modal feature fusion model based on deep learning is superior to other traditional ICT biomarkers, such as ICT targets or tumor microenvironment-associated markers. In addition, we also conducted ablation experiments to demonstrate the necessity of fusing different modal features, which can improve the prediction accuracy of the model.
免疫检查点疗法 (ICT) 在过去几年中极大地提高了癌症患者的生存率,但只有少数患者对 ICT 有反应。为了预测 ICT 反应,我们开发了一种基于深度学习的多模态特征融合模型 (MFMDL)。该模型利用图神经网络将基因网络中的基因-基因关系映射到低维向量空间,然后融合生物通路特征和免疫细胞浸润特征,对 ICT 进行稳健预测。我们使用五个数据集来验证 MFMDL 的预测性能。这五个数据集涵盖了多种类型的癌症,包括黑色素瘤、肺癌和胃癌。我们发现,基于深度学习的多模态特征融合模型的预测性能优于其他传统的 ICT 生物标志物,如 ICT 靶点或肿瘤微环境相关标志物。此外,我们还进行了消融实验,以证明融合不同模态特征的必要性,这可以提高模型的预测准确性。