Evaluating deep variational autoencoders trained on pan-cancer gene expression
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease with diverse molecular etiologies and outcomes. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has released a large compendium of over 10,000 tumors with RNA-seq gene expression measurements. Gene expression captures the diverse molecular profiles of tumors and can be interrogated to reveal differential pathway activations. Deep unsupervised models, including Variational Autoencoders (VAE) can be used to reveal these underlying patterns. We compare a one-hidden layer VAE to two alternative VAE architectures with increased depth. We determine the additional capacity marginally improves performance. We train and compare the three VAE architectures to other dimensionality reduction techniques including principal components analysis (PCA), independent components analysis (ICA), non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), and analysis of gene expression by denoising autoencoders (ADAGE). We compare performance in a supervised learning task predicting gene inactivation pan-cancer and in a latent space analysis of high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) subtypes. We do not observe substantial differences across algorithms in the classification task. VAE latent spaces offer biological insights into HGSC subtype biology.
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