arXiv:2608.19304cs.LGcs.AI2026-08中稿 · the CIBB 2026 conf…

用量子核方法分析血液癌症信号,提升早期肺癌检测精度。

Quantum Kernel Estimation for the Discovery of Early Lung Cancer Detection

  • 将DNA片段特征映射到量子空间,通过纠缠设计捕捉非线性信号。
  • 20特征配置下部分量子模型AUC优于经典支持向量机基线。
  • 适合关注量子机器学习在生物医学应用的科研人员参考。

低剂量胸部CT筛查可降低肺癌死亡率,但受限于参与率、依从性及管理难题。基于血液的游离DNA(cfDNA)生物标志物提供互补方案,然而因肺癌异质性及高维非线性分子信号,早期检测仍具挑战。本研究评估了量子-经典混合机器学习在利用DNA片段组学与甲基化数据进行肺癌检测中的应用。经特征选择后,采用20和40特征子集训练模型,使用角度与密集角度特征映射将特征编码至量子希尔伯特空间,并结合多种纠缠策略。通过精确态矢量模拟计算保真度量子核,集成预计算核的SVM与核主成分分析逻辑回归,并与原始特征训练的SVM模型对比。该框架系统评估了编码与纠缠设计对分类性能的影响。在多次留出验证中,量子核模型在两个数据集上均表现良好。片段组学数据中,多个20特征配置的量子模型优于经典SVM基线,表明有效捕获了非线性片段结构;甲基化数据中,经典SVM达到最高AUC,但部分量子模型保持竞争力且某些情况下提升了特异性。特征数从20增至40并未持续提升性能,反而增加变异性。总体结果支持量子核方法作为基于cfDNA的肺癌检测有前景的路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Lung cancer screening with low-dose chest computed tomography reduces mortality, but its impact is limited by uptake, adherence, and management challenges. Blood-based cell-free DNA (cfDNA) biomarkers offer a complementary approach, although early detection remains difficult because of lung cancer heterogeneity and high-dimensional, nonlinear molecular signals. We evaluated quantum-classical hybrid machine learning for lung cancer detection using DNA fragmentomics and DNA methylation. After feature selection, models were trained using 20- and 40-feature subsets. Features were encoded into quantum Hilbert space using angle and dense-angle feature maps with multiple entanglement strategies. Fidelity-based quantum kernels were computed with exact statevector simulation and integrated with precomputed-kernel SVM and kernel-PCA logistic regression and compared with an SVM model trained on the original features. This framework enabled systematic evaluation of how encoding and entanglement design affect classification. Across repeated held-out evaluations, quantum-kernel models achieved competitive performance on both datasets. For fragmentomics, several 20-feature configurations improved AUC relative to a classical SVM baseline, suggesting effective capture of nonlinear cfDNA fragmentation structure. For methylation, the classical SVM achieved the highest AUC, although selected quantum models remained competitive and improved specificity in some cases. Increasing features from 20 to 40 did not consistently improve performance and often increased variability. Overall, these results support quantum kernel methods as a promising approach for cfDNA-based lung cancer detection.

量子机器学习肺癌检测液体活检生物信息学

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