用生物标志物的谱扰动分析疾病演化,实现个体化机制解释。
Disease Is a Spectral Perturbation

- 构建生物标志物协方差的谱模型,以健康状态为基线捕捉疾病扰动。
- 疾病导致特征值偏移和特征向量旋转,程度与病理严重性相关。
- 新患者投影到疾病判别模态可提升预后预测精度,适用于多种疾病。
我们提出一种新方法,通过生物标志物层面的可解释性理解从健康到疾病的转变。基于健康对照与疾病状态的生物标志物协方差矩阵建模,可对扰动进行个体化刻画,实现分子水平及个体患者的机制解释。给定一组 n 个患者、每例测量 p 个生物标志物的数据,定义生物标志物“哈密顿量”H = X^T X / n ∈ R^{p×p},其中 X ∈ R^{n×p} 为协方差生物标志物矩阵。H 的特征向量定义了一组生物标志物协同的正常模式,特征值量化各模式的能量。在健康状态下,参考哈密顿量 H_0 决定该结构;疾病通过加性算子 ΔH 扰动 H_0,导致特征值偏移和特征向量旋转,幅度与病理破坏严重性成正比。我们形式化该框架,推导疾病扰动下的谱变化,并证明新诊断患者累积生物标志物协方差结构在疾病判别特征模式上的投影,是具有更高精度的最优预后统计量。本工作为涵盖癌症到神经退行性疾病等多类疾病的通用应用提供基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We propose a novel method of understanding disease transformation from a healthy baseline with biomarker-level explainability. By modeling the biomarker covariance matrices of healthy controls and disease states, the perturbation can be individually characterized to accomplish mechanistic explanations of disease trajectories, both at a molecular level and for individual patients. Given a cohort of n patients each measured on p biomarkers, we define the biomarker "Hamiltonian" H = X^T X / n \in R^{p \times p}, where X \in R^{n \times p} is the covariant biomarker matrix. The eigenvectors of H define a set of normal modes of biomarker coordination, and the eigenvalues quantify the energy carried by each mode. In the healthy state, the reference Hamiltonian H_0 governs this structure where disease perturbs H_0 by an additive operator ΔH, thus shifting eigenvalues and rotating eigenvectors in proportion to the severity of pathological disruption. We formalize this framework, derive the spectral change given a disease perturbation, and demonstrate that the projection of a newly diagnosed patient's cumulative biomarker covariance structure onto disease-discriminant eigenmodes constitutes an optimal prognostic statistic for greater precision in disease prognosis. This work serves as a veritable white paper with application across a panoply of disease frameworks from cancer to neurodegenerative disorders.
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