Discovering correspondences between molecular profiles and morphological features via deep learning (Conference Presentation)
Richard Chen, Faisal Mahmood · 2020
Tumor cell populations in histopathology exhibit enormous heterogeneity in phenotypic traits such as uncontrolled cellular and microvascular proliferation, nuclear atypia, recurrence and therapy response. However, there is a limited quantitative understanding of how the molecular genotype correspond with the morphological phenotype in cancer. In this work, we develop a deep learning algorithm that learns to map molecular profiles to histopathological patterns. In our preliminary results, we are able to generate high-quality, realistic tissue samples, and demonstrate that by attenuating the mutation of status of few genes, we are able to guide the histopathology tissue image synthesis to exhibit different phenotypes.