Morphological analysis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma unaging using attention-based deep learning
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2022
Keywords
JGM
JAX Location
In: Student Reports, Summer 2022, The Jackson Laboratory
Sponsor
Sam Liu and Jeffery Chuang, Ph.D.
Abstract
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL) is a rare cancer that develops in the lymph tissues, in which white blood cells, T-Lymphocytes (T-Cells), develop abnormalities. The most common form of CTCL is Mycosis Fungoides (MF), which is a generally slow progressing disease, and if monitored well, many patients have a normal life expectancy; however, patients with advanced stage MF may undergo large cell transformation (LCT), resulting in patients resisting multiple forms of therapy and having poorer prognosis. This study proposes using two attention-based deep-learning techniques to develop computational tools that would be able to analyze CTCL tissue biopsies and help predict LCT risk. Through adding spatial attention mechanisms to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and utilizing Vision Transformers (ViT), the models were able to provide statistically significant improvements in distinguishing between indolent and precursor tissue tiles.
Recommended Citation
Huang, Amaris, "Morphological analysis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma unaging using attention-based deep learning" (2022). Summer and Academic Year Student Reports. 2725.
https://mouseion.jax.org/strp/2725