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Deep Learning Applied to Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Microsatellite Instability/MMR Deficient Colorectal Cancer

Blake, Nathan; Gaifulina, Riana; Griffin, Lewis D; Bell, Ian M; Rodriguez-Justo, Manuel; Thomas, Geraint MH; (2023) Deep Learning Applied to Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Microsatellite Instability/MMR Deficient Colorectal Cancer. Cancers , 15 (6) , Article 1720. 10.3390/cancers15061720. Green open access

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Abstract

Defective DNA mismatch repair is one pathogenic pathway to colorectal cancer. It is characterised by microsatellite instability which provides a molecular biomarker for its detection. Clinical guidelines for universal testing of this biomarker are not met due to resource limitations; thus, there is interest in developing novel methods for its detection. Raman spectroscopy (RS) is an analytical tool able to interrogate the molecular vibrations of a sample to provide a unique biochemical fingerprint. The resulting datasets are complex and high-dimensional, making them an ideal candidate for deep learning, though this may be limited by small sample sizes. This study investigates the potential of using RS to distinguish between normal, microsatellite stable (MSS) and microsatellite unstable (MSI-H) adenocarcinoma in human colorectal samples and whether deep learning provides any benefit to this end over traditional machine learning models. A 1D convolutional neural network (CNN) was developed to discriminate between healthy, MSI-H and MSS in human tissue and compared to a principal component analysis-linear discriminant analysis (PCA-LDA) and a support vector machine (SVM) model. A nested cross-validation strategy was used to train 30 samples, 10 from each group, with a total of 1490 Raman spectra. The CNN achieved a sensitivity and specificity of 83% and 45% compared to PCA-LDA, which achieved a sensitivity and specificity of 82% and 51%, respectively. These are competitive with existing guidelines, despite the low sample size, speaking to the molecular discriminative power of RS combined with deep learning. A number of biochemical antecedents responsible for this discrimination are also explored, with Raman peaks associated with nucleic acids and collagen being implicated.

Type: Article
Title: Deep Learning Applied to Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Microsatellite Instability/MMR Deficient Colorectal Cancer
Location: Switzerland
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/cancers15061720
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15061720
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
Keywords: Raman spectroscopy, colorectal cancer, deep learning, diagnostics, microsatellite instability, oncology
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Pathology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167748
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