arXiv:2606.11876q-bio.QMcs.LG2026-06

用贝叶斯方法检测低水平ctDNA变化,提前数月预警乳腺癌耐药。

Seeing Below the Limit of Detection: A Censored-Poisson Bayesian Latent-Growth Change-Point Detector (the Span Detector) for Serial ctDNA in HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer

论文配图:Seeing Below the Limit of Detection: A Censored-Poisson Bayesian Latent-Growth Change-Point Detector (the Span Detector) for Serial ctDNA in HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer
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  • 将阴性结果视为左删失数据,建模检测率的渐进变化
  • 在10%假警报率下,提前3个月捕获25%的进展信号
  • 无需训练参数,适合对早期耐药敏感的研究与临床

循环肿瘤DNA(ctDNA)可在影像学显示前数月揭示药物耐药证据,但早期信号常低于检测限(LoD),表现为间歇性微弱阳性与阴性。现有液体活检将每次检测视为独立快照,阴性结果被忽略。本文提出Span模型,将阴性视为左删失观测,通过泊松分布建模检测过程,累积序列广义似然比统计量以识别检测率上升的拐点,并实现校准的误报控制。该模型无学习参数,避免过拟合。在HR+/HER2-转移性乳腺癌合成队列中,匹配10%假警报率时,相比传统快照法(11%),可使预判进展率提升至25%,且效果随耐药缓慢出现而显著增强,快速出现则不明显。基线轨迹分析表现与快照法相当,证明性能提升源于删失建模。在真实数据(GBSG-2, n=686)上生存预测能力与Cox模型相近(C-index 0.67 vs 0.68),在清洁生物标志物队列(PBC2, n=312)中无法胜出,验证了机制的适应症特异性。所有ctDNA轨迹均为合成生成。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Circulating-tumour DNA (ctDNA) carries evidence of drug resistance months before imaging shows it, but the earliest evidence lives below the assay's limit of detection (LoD): a nascent subclone is detected only intermittently, producing a flickering sequence of faint detects and non-detects. Commercial liquid biopsies treat each draw as an independent snapshot and a non-detect as nothing. We argue a non-detect is a left-censored observation, and the pattern of non-detects and faint detects over time carries actionable evidence of growth before any single value is trustworthy. We introduce Span, a censored-Poisson Bayesian latent-growth change-point detector that models the binary detection process, accumulates a sequential generalised-likelihood-ratio statistic for an upward change-point in the per-variant detection rate, and raises a competing-risks alarm with calibrated false-alarm control. Span has no learned weights, so there is nothing to overfit. On a synthetic cohort of HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer on first-line CDK4/6-inhibitor plus endocrine therapy, at a matched 10% false-alarm rate, Span roughly doubles the fraction of impending progressions caught three months ahead (indolent regime: 25% vs 11% for the snapshot), with a falsifiable dose-response: large for indolent emergence, vanishing for fast emergence. A value-trajectory baseline performs identically to the snapshot, isolating the gain to the censored detection model. The survival backbone matches a Cox baseline on real breast-cancer data (GBSG-2, n=686; C-index 0.67 vs 0.68), and on a real longitudinal cohort with clean biomarkers (PBC2, n=312) the same pipeline correctly declines to win, a falsifiable boundary test confirming the mechanism is regime-specific. All ctDNA trajectories are synthetic.

ctDNA贝叶斯模型耐药预警液体活检

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