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Qiao X, Zhang X, Chen W, Xu X, Chen YW, Liu ZP. tensorGSEA: Detecting Differential Pathways in Type 2 Diabetes via Tensor-Based Data Reconstruction. Interdiscip Sci 2022; 14:520-531. [PMID: 35195883 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-022-00506-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Detecting significant signaling pathways in disease progression highlights the dysfunctions and pathogenic mechanisms of complex disease development. Since tensor decomposition has been proven effective for multi-dimensional data representation and reconstruction, differences between original and tensor-processed data are expected to extract crucial information and differential indication. This paper provides a tensor-based gene set enrichment analysis, called tensorGSEA, based on a data reconstruction method to identify relevant significant pathways during disease development. As a proof-of-concept study, we identify the differential pathways of diabetes in rats. Specifically, we first arrange gene expression profiles of each documented pathway as tensors with three dimensions: genes, samples, and periods. Then we compress tensors into core tensors with lower ranks. The pathways with lower reconstruction rates are obtained after reconstructing gene expression profiles in another state via these cores. Thus, differences underlying pathways are extracted by cross-state data reconstruction between controls and diseases. The experiments reveal several critical pathways with diabetes-specific functions which otherwise cannot be identified by alternative methods. Our proposed tensorGSEA is efficient in evaluating pathways by achieving their empirical statistical significance, respectively. The classification experiments demonstrate that the selected pathways can be implemented as biomarkers to identify the diabetic state. The code of tensorGSEA is available at https://github.com/zhxr37/tensorGSEA .
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Affiliation(s)
- Xu Qiao
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Tissue Regeneration, School of Stomatology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oral Tissue Regeneration, School of Stomatology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, Shandong, China.
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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique based on interferometry of backscattered lights from materials and biological samples. For the quantitative evaluation of an OCT system, artificial optical samples or phantoms are commonly used. They mimic the structure of biological tissues and can provide a quality standard for comparison within and across devices. Phantoms contain medium matrix and scattering particles within the dimension range of target biological structures such as the retina. The aim was to determine if changes in speckle derived optical texture could be employed to classify the OCT phantoms based on their structural composition. Four groups of phantom types were prepared and imaged. These comprise different concentrations of a medium matrix (gelatin solution), different sized polystyrene beads (PBs), the volume of PBs and different refractive indices of scatterers (PBs and SiO2). Texture analysis was applied to detect subtle optical differences in OCT image intensity, surface coarseness and brightness of regions of interest. A semi-automated classifier based on principal component analysis (PCA) and support vector machine (SVM) was applied to discriminate the various texture models. The classifier detected correctly different phantom textures from 82% to 100%, demonstrating that analysis of the texture of OCT images can be potentially used to discriminate biological structure based on subtle changes in light scattering.
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Moraru L, Moldovanu S, Culea-Florescu AL, Bibicu D, Ashour AS, Dey N. Texture analysis of parasitological liver fibrosis images. Microsc Res Tech 2017; 80:862-869. [DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Revised: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 03/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Luminiţa Moraru
- Faculty of Sciences and Environment; Dunarea de Jos University of Galati; 47 Domneasca St 800008 Romania
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- Faculty of Control Systems, Computers; Dunarea de Jos University of Galati; Romania
- Dumitru Motoc High School; 15 Milcov St Galati 800509 Romania
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- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Dunarea de Jos University of Galati; Romania
- Dunarea High School; 24 Oltului Street Galati 800444 Romania
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- Techno India College of Technology; West Bengal 740000 India
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Statistical texture modeling for medical volume using linear tensor coding. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2013; 2013:630902. [PMID: 23878617 PMCID: PMC3708404 DOI: 10.1155/2013/630902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2013] [Revised: 05/09/2013] [Accepted: 05/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We introduced a compact representation method named Linear Tensor Coding (LTC) for medical volume. With LTC, medical volumes can be represented by a linear combination of bases which are mutually independent. Furthermore, it is possible to choose the distinctive basis for classification. Before classification, correlations between category labels and the coefficients of LTC basis are used to choose the basis. Then we use the selected basis for classification. The classification accuracy can be significantly improved by the use of selected distinctive basis.
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