AI预测乳腺癌复发风险,结合蛋白组学揭示肿瘤内分子差异。
Spatial proteomics guided by H&E-based AI reveals recurrence-risk niches in triple-negative breast cancer
- 用AI生成复发风险热图,指导空间蛋白组定位分析。
- 高风险区域富集有丝分裂蛋白,低风险区免疫通路活跃。
- 发现复发相关分子特征,适合精准治疗研究者参考。
深度学习模型可从H&E染色切片预测癌症复发,但其背后的局部分子状态仍不明确。本研究在三阴性乳腺癌(TNBC)中构建了基于预后信息的空间病理框架,整合AI生成的复发风险热图与质谱测序的空间蛋白组数据。在156例患者队列中,高分区域的分布聚合在独立测试集中达到AUC 0.77,C-index为0.77。整体蛋白组分析显示,高风险与细胞周期和基因组维持程序相关,低风险则与免疫激活相关。高、低风险区域共存于同一肿瘤区段,具有不同的核形态和结构特征,揭示了超越组织区段身份的肿瘤内异质性。进一步利用热图作为坐标指南,从两名复发患者中物理分离并分析46个AI定义的肿瘤区域,空间蛋白组分析显示两例患者均呈现一致的分子差异:高风险区富集有丝分裂程序,低风险区富集免疫与抗原呈递程序。基于这些空间对比筛选出的13蛋白复合物,在扩展队列中得分越高,无复发生存越差;对应转录复合物在独立METABRIC TNBC队列中亦可有效分层生存。将该蛋白复合物与H&E衍生风险评分结合,使袋外C-index从0.679提升至0.739,并在3年和5年时间点增强判别力。研究确立了预后训练的AI模型作为空间显式实验引导的新角色,连接预后形态与局部分子状态,推动了生物学基础的多尺度生物标志物发现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep learning models can predict cancer recurrence from H&E stained slides, but the localized molecular states underlying these predictions remain largely obscured. Here, we developed an outcome informed spatial pathology framework in TNBC that integrates AI generated recurrence risk heatmaps with mass spectrometry based spatial proteomics. In a cohort of 156 patients, distribution based aggregation of high scoring patches achieved an AUC of 0.77 and a C-index of 0.77 in an independent test cohort. Bulk proteomics associated high image derived risk with cell cycle and genome maintenance programs and low risk with immune activation. High and low risk patches coexisted within the same tumor compartment and displayed distinct nuclear and architectural features, revealing intratumoral heterogeneity beyond tissue compartment identity. We then used the heatmaps as coordinate level guides to physically isolate and profile 46 AI defined tumor regions from two recurrence patients. Spatial proteomic profiling revealed a concordant molecular contrast across both patients: mitotic programs were enriched in high risk regions and immune and antigen presentation programs in low risk regions. A 13 protein composite derived from these spatial contrasts showed a trend toward poorer recurrence-free survival with increasing scores in an expanded cohort, while the corresponding transcript based composite stratified recurrence free survival in the independent METABRIC TNBC cohort. Integrating the protein composite with the H&E derived risk score improved the out of bag C-index from 0.679 to 0.739 and enhanced time dependent discrimination at 3 and 5 years. Together, these findings define a new role for outcome trained AI models as spatially explicit experimental guides that connect prognostic morphology with localized molecular states and advance biologically grounded, multiscale biomarker discovery in TNBC.
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