Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Deep learning-based cross-classifications reveal conserved spatial behaviors within tumor histological images

  • Javad Noorbakhsh,
  • Saman Farahmand,
  • Ali Foroughi pour,
  • Sandeep Namburi,
  • Dennis Caruana,
  • David Rimm,
  • Mohammad Soltanieh-ha,
  • Kourosh Zarringhalam,
  • Jeffrey H. Chuang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20030-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Histopathological images are a rich but incompletely explored data type for studying cancer. Here the authors show that convolutional neural networks can be systematically applied across cancer types, enabling comparisons to reveal shared spatial behaviors.