Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

A deep learning model to predict RNA-Seq expression of tumours from whole slide images

  • Benoît Schmauch,
  • Alberto Romagnoni,
  • Elodie Pronier,
  • Charlie Saillard,
  • Pascale Maillé,
  • Julien Calderaro,
  • Aurélie Kamoun,
  • Meriem Sefta,
  • Sylvain Toldo,
  • Mikhail Zaslavskiy,
  • Thomas Clozel,
  • Matahi Moarii,
  • Pierre Courtiol,
  • Gilles Wainrib

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17678-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

Read online

RNA-sequencing of tumour tissue can provide important diagnostic and prognostic information but this is costly and not routinely performed in all clinical settings. Here, the authors show that whole slide histology slides—part of routine care—can be used to predict RNA-sequencing data and thus reduce the need for additional analyses.