Title
On The Feasibility Of Deep Learning Applications Using Raw Mass Spectrometry Data
Abstract
A Summary: In recent years, SWATH-MS has become the proteomic method of choice for data-independent-acquisition, as it enables high proteome coverage, accuracy and reproducibility. However, data analysis is convoluted and requires prior information and expert curation. Furthermore, as quantification is limited to a small set of peptides, potentially important biological information may be discarded. Here we demonstrate that deep learning can be used to learn discriminative features directly from raw MS data, eliminating hence the need of elaborate data processing pipelines. Using transfer learning to overcome sample sparsity, we exploit a collection of publicly available deep learning models already trained for the task of natural image classification. These models are used to produce feature vectors from each mass spectrometry (MS) raw image, which are later used as input for a classifier trained to distinguish tumor from normal prostate biopsies. Although the deep learning models were originally trained for a completely different classification task and no additional fine-tuning is performed on them, we achieve a highly remarkable classification performance of 0.876 AUC. We investigate different types of image preprocessing and encoding. We also investigate whether the inclusion of the secondary MS2 spectra improves the classification performance. Throughout all tested models, we use standard protein expression vectors as gold standards. Even with our naive implementation, our results suggest that the application of deep learning and transfer learning techniques might pave the way to the broader usage of raw mass spectrometry data in real-time diagnosis.Availability and implementation: The open source code used to generate the results from MS images is available on GitHub: https://ibm.biz/mstransc. The raw MS data underlying this article cannot be shared publicly for the privacy of individuals that participated in the study. Processed data including the MS images, their encodings, classification labels and results can be accessed at the following link: https://ibm.box.com/v/mstc-supplementary.Contact: mrm@zurich.ibm.com or dow@zurich.ibm.comSupplementary information: Supplementary are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/bioinformatics/btab311
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
37
Supplement_1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joris Cadow101.35
Matteo Manica277.61
Roland Mathis311.36
Tiannan Guo400.68
Ruedi Aebersold560.98
María Rodríguez Martínez664.52