Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

A generalizable 29-mRNA neural-network classifier for acute bacterial and viral infections

  • Michael B. Mayhew,
  • Ljubomir Buturovic,
  • Roland Luethy,
  • Uros Midic,
  • Andrew R. Moore,
  • Jonasel A. Roque,
  • Brian D. Shaller,
  • Tola Asuni,
  • David Rawling,
  • Melissa Remmel,
  • Kirindi Choi,
  • James Wacker,
  • Purvesh Khatri,
  • Angela J. Rogers,
  • Timothy E. Sweeney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14975-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Diagnosing acute infections based on transcriptional host response shows promise, but generalizability is wanting. Here, the authors use a co-normalization framework to train a classifier to diagnose acute infections and apply it to independent data on a targeted diagnostic platform.