64 research outputs found
Making Neural Networks FAIR
Research on neural networks has gained significant momentum over the past few
years. Because training is a resource-intensive process and training data
cannot always be made available to everyone, there has been a trend to reuse
pre-trained neural networks. As such, neural networks themselves have become
research data. In this paper, we first present the neural network ontology
FAIRnets Ontology, an ontology to make existing neural network models findable,
accessible, interoperable, and reusable according to the FAIR principles. Our
ontology allows us to model neural networks on a meta-level in a structured
way, including the representation of all network layers and their
characteristics. Secondly, we have modeled over 18,400 neural networks from
GitHub based on this ontology, which we provide to the public as a knowledge
graph called FAIRnets, ready to be used for recommending suitable neural
networks to data scientists
Expression of the RNA helicase DDX3 and the hypoxia response in breast cancer
<p>Aims: DDX3 is an RNA helicase that has antiapoptotic properties, and promotes proliferation and transformation. In addition, DDX3 was shown to be a direct downstream target of HIF-1α (the master regulatory of the hypoxia response) in breast cancer cell lines. However, the relation between DDX3 and hypoxia has not been addressed in human tumors. In this paper, we studied the relation between DDX3 and the hypoxic responsive proteins in human breast cancer.</p>
<p>Methods and Results: DDX3 expression was investigated by immunohistochemistry in breast cancer in comparison with hypoxia related proteins HIF-1α, GLUT1, CAIX, EGFR, HER2, Akt1, FOXO4, p53, ERα, COMMD1, FER kinase, PIN1, E-cadherin, p21, p27, Transferrin receptor, FOXO3A, c-Met and Notch1. DDX3 was overexpressed in 127 of 366 breast cancer patients, and was correlated with overexpression of HIF-1α and its downstream genes CAIX and GLUT1. Moreover, DDX3 expression correlated with hypoxia-related proteins EGFR, HER2, FOXO4, ERα and c-Met in a HIF-1α dependent fashion, and with COMMD1, FER kinase, Akt1, E-cadherin, TfR and FOXO3A independent of HIF-1α.</p>
<p>Conclusions: In invasive breast cancer, expression of DDX3 was correlated with overexpression of HIF-1α and many other hypoxia related proteins, pointing to a distinct role for DDX3 under hypoxic conditions and supporting the oncogenic role of DDX3 which could have clinical implication for current development of DDX3 inhibitors.</p>
Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation
Procedural Content Generation (PCG) refers to the practice, in videogames and
other games, of generating content such as levels, quests, or characters
algorithmically. Motivated by the need to make games replayable, as well as to
reduce authoring burden, limit storage space requirements, and enable
particular aesthetics, a large number of PCG methods have been devised by game
developers. Additionally, researchers have explored adapting methods from
machine learning, optimization, and constraint solving to PCG problems. Games
have been widely used in AI research since the inception of the field, and in
recent years have been used to develop and benchmark new machine learning
algorithms. Through this practice, it has become more apparent that these
algorithms are susceptible to overfitting. Often, an algorithm will not learn a
general policy, but instead a policy that will only work for a particular
version of a particular task with particular initial parameters. In response,
researchers have begun exploring randomization of problem parameters to
counteract such overfitting and to allow trained policies to more easily
transfer from one environment to another, such as from a simulated robot to a
robot in the real world. Here we review the large amount of existing work on
PCG, which we believe has an important role to play in increasing the
generality of machine learning methods. The main goal here is to present RL/AI
with new tools from the PCG toolbox, and its secondary goal is to explain to
game developers and researchers a way in which their work is relevant to AI
research
Важливе історико-географічне дослідження
Рец. на кн. Темушева В.Н. "Гомельская земля в конце XV первой
половине XVI в. Территориальные трансформации в пограничном
регионе". — М.: "Квадрига", 2009. — 190 с.Review of the book: Temushev V.N. "Gomel Land in the Late 15th — the
1st half of the 16th Centuries. Territorial Transformations in the Frontier
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High-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in high-risk breast cancer (BC) patients with ≥4 involved axillary lymph nodes (ALN): 20-year follow-up of a randomized phase 3 study
Blood Flow and Glucose Metabolism in Stage IV Breast Cancer: Heterogeneity of Response During Chemotherapy
Objective: The purpose of the study was to compare early changes in blood flow (BF) and glucose metabolism (MRglu) in metastatic breast cancer lesions of patients treated with chemotherapy. Methods: Eleven women with stage IV cancer and lesions in breast, lymph nodes, liver, and bone were scanned before treatment and after the first course of chemotherapy. BF, distribution volume of water (Vd), MRglu/BF ratio, MRgluand its corresponding rate constants K1and k3were compared per tumor lesion before and during therapy. Results: At baseline, mean BF and MRgluvaried among different tumor lesions, but mean Vdwas comparable in all lesions. After one course of chemotherapy, mean MRgludecreased in all lesions. Mean BF decreased in breast and node lesions and increased in bone lesions. Vddecreased in breast and nodes, but did not change in bone lesions. The MRglu/BF ratio decreased in breast and bone lesions and increased in node lesions. In patients with multiple tumor lesions BF and MRgluresponse could be very heterogeneous, even within similar types of metastases. BF and MRgluincreased in lesions of patients who experienced early disease progression or showed no response during clinical follow-up. Conclusion: BF and MRgluchanges separately give unique information on different aspects of tumor response to chemotherapy. Changes in BF and MRgluparameters can be remarkably heterogeneous in patients with multiple lesions
Expression of BNIP3 in invasive breast cancer: correlations with the hypoxic response and clinicopathological features
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Bcl-2/adenovirus E1B 19 kDa-interacting protein 3 (BNIP3) is a pro-apoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family induced under hypoxia. Low or absent expression has recently been described in human tumors, including gastrointestinal tumors, resulting in poor prognosis. Little is known about BNIP3 expression in invasive breast cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression of BNIP3 in invasive breast cancer at the mRNA and protein level in correlation with the hypoxic response and clinicopathological features.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In 40 cases of invasive breast cancer, BNIP3 mRNA <it>in situ </it>hybridization was performed on frozen sections with a digoxigenin labeled anti-BNIP3 probe. Paraffin embedded sections of the same specimens were used to determine protein expression of BNIP3, Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 alpha (HIF-1α) and its downstream targets Glucose Transporter 1 (Glut-1) and Carbonic Anhydrase (CAIX) by immunohistochemistry.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>BNIP3 mRNA was expressed in 16/40 (40%) of the cases and correlated with BNIP3 protein expression (p = 0.0218). Neither BNIP3 protein nor mRNA expression correlated with expression of HIF-1α expression or its downstream targets. Tumors which showed loss of expression of BNIP3 had significantly more often lymph node metastases (82% vs 39%, p = 0.010) and showed a higher mitotic activity index (p = 0.027). BNIP3 protein expression was often nuclear in normal breast, but cytoplasmic in tumor cells.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>BNIP3 expression is lost in a significant portion of invasive breast cancers, which is correlated with poor prognostic features such as positive lymph node status and high proliferation, but not with the hypoxic response.</p
On the Bounds of Function Approximations
Within machine learning, the subfield of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has
recently garnered research attention due to its ability to improve upon
human-designed models. However, the computational requirements for finding an
exact solution to this problem are often intractable, and the design of the
search space still requires manual intervention. In this paper we attempt to
establish a formalized framework from which we can better understand the
computational bounds of NAS in relation to its search space. For this, we first
reformulate the function approximation problem in terms of sequences of
functions, and we call it the Function Approximation (FA) problem; then we show
that it is computationally infeasible to devise a procedure that solves FA for
all functions to zero error, regardless of the search space. We show also that
such error will be minimal if a specific class of functions is present in the
search space. Subsequently, we show that machine learning as a mathematical
problem is a solution strategy for FA, albeit not an effective one, and further
describe a stronger version of this approach: the Approximate Architectural
Search Problem (a-ASP), which is the mathematical equivalent of NAS. We
leverage the framework from this paper and results from the literature to
describe the conditions under which a-ASP can potentially solve FA as well as
an exhaustive search, but in polynomial time.Comment: Accepted as a full paper at ICANN 2019. The final, authenticated
publication will be available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30487-4_3
Prognostic Value of Stromal Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Young, Node-Negative, Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Who Did Not Receive (neo)Adjuvant Systemic Therapy
PURPOSE: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is considered aggressive, and therefore, virtually all young patients with TNBC receive (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy. Increased stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (sTILs) have been associated with a favorable prognosis in TNBC. However, whether this association holds for patients who are node-negative (N0), young (< 40 years), and chemotherapy-naïve, and thus can be used for chemotherapy de-escalation strategies, is unknown. METHODS: We selected all patients with N0 TNBC diagnosed between 1989 and 2000 from a Dutch population-based registry. Patients were age < 40 years at diagnosis and had not received (neo)adjuvant systemic therapy, as was standard practice at the time. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded blocks were retrieved (PALGA: Dutch Pathology Registry), and a pathology review including sTILs was performed. Patients were categorized according to sTILs (< 30%, 30%-75%, and ≥ 75%). Multivariable Cox regression was performed for overall survival, with or without sTILs as a covariate. Cumulative incidence of distant metastasis or death was analyzed in a competing risk model, with second primary tumors as competing risk. RESULTS: sTILs were scored for 441 patients. High sTILs (≥ 75%; 21%) translated into an excellent prognosis with a 15-year cumulative incidence of a distant metastasis or death of only 2.1% (95% CI, 0 to 5.0), whereas low sTILs (< 30%; 52%) had an unfavorable prognosis with a 15-year cumulative incidence of a distant metastasis or death of 38.4% (32.1 to 44.6). In addition, every 10% increment of sTILs decreased the risk of death by 19% (adjusted hazard ratio: 0.81; 95% CI, 0.76 to 0.87), which are an independent predictor adding prognostic information to standard clinicopathologic variables (χ2 = 46.7, P < .001). CONCLUSION: Chemotherapy-naïve, young patients with N0 TNBC with high sTILs (≥ 75%) have an excellent long-term prognosis. Therefore, sTILs should be considered for prospective clinical trials investigating (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy de-escalation strategies
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