Smita Krishnaswamy

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Topological Analysis of Single-Cell Hierarchy Reveals Inflammatory Glial Landscape of Macular Degeneration

Manik Kuchroo

Marcello DiStasio

Eric Song

Eda Calapkulu

Le Zhang

Maryam Ige

Amar H. Sheth

Madhvi Menon

Abhinav Godavarthi

Yu Xing

Scott Gigante

Holly Steach

Jessie Huang

Guillaume Huguet

Janhavi Narain

George Mourgkos

Rahul M. Dhodapkar

Matthew J. Hirn

Bastian Rieck … (see 3 more)

Brian P. Hafler

2020-12-31

SSRN Electronic Journal (published)

Topological Analysis of Single-Cell Hierarchy Reveals Inflammatory Glial Landscape of Macular Degeneration

Manik Kuchroo

Marcello DiStasio

Eric Song

Eda Calapkulu

Le Zhang

Maryam Ige

Amar H. Sheth

Madhvi Menon

Abhinav Godavarthi

Yu Xing

Scott Gigante

Holly Steach

Jessie Huang

Guillaume Huguet

Janhavi Narain

George Mourgkos

Rahul M. Dhodapkar

Matthew J. Hirn

Bastian Rieck … (see 3 more)

Brian P. Hafler

2020-12-31

SSRN Electronic Journal (unknown)

Uncovering the Folding Landscape of RNA Secondary Structure Using Deep Graph Embeddings

Egbert Castro

Andrew Benz

Biomolecular graph analysis has recently gained much attention in the emerging field of geometric deep learning. Here we focus on organizing… (see more) biomolecular graphs in ways that expose meaningful relations and variations between them. We propose a geometric scattering autoencoder (GSAE) network for learning such graph embeddings. Our embedding network first extracts rich graph features using the recently proposed geometric scattering transform. Then, it leverages a semi-supervised variational autoencoder to extract a low-dimensional embedding that retains the information in these features that enable prediction of molecular properties as well as characterize graphs. We show that GSAE organizes RNA graphs both by structure and energy, accurately reflecting bistable RNA structures. Also, the model is generative and can sample new folding trajectories.

2020-12-31

IEEE International Conference on Big Data (unknown)

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Uncovering the Topology of Time-Varying fMRI Data using Cubical Persistence

Bastian Rieck

Tristan Yates

Christian Bock

Karsten Borgwardt

Nicholas Turk-Browne

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a crucial technology for gaining insights into cognitive processes in humans. Data amassed f… (see more)rom fMRI measurements result in volumetric data sets that vary over time. However, analysing such data presents a challenge due to the large degree of noise and person-to-person variation in how information is represented in the brain. To address this challenge, we present a novel topological approach that encodes each time point in an fMRI data set as a persistence diagram of topological features, i.e. high-dimensional voids present in the data. This representation naturally does not rely on voxel-by-voxel correspondence and is robust to noise. We show that these time-varying persistence diagrams can be clustered to find meaningful groupings between participants, and that they are also useful in studying within-subject brain state trajectories of subjects performing a particular task. Here, we apply both clustering and trajectory analysis techniques to a group of participants watching the movie 'Partly Cloudy'. We observe significant differences in both brain state trajectories and overall topological activity between adults and children watching the same movie.

2020-12-06

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Accept (poster))

arxiv.org

Multiscale PHATE Exploration of SARS-CoV-2 Data Reveals Multimodal Signatures of Disease

Manik Kuchroo

Jessie Huang

Patrick Wong

Jean-Christophe Grenier

Dennis Shung

Carolina Lucas

Jon Klein

Daniel B. Burkhardt

Scott Gigante

Abhinav Godavarthi

Benjamin Israelow

Tianyang Mao

Ji Eun Oh

Julio Silva

Takehiro Takahashi

Camila D. Odio

Arnau Casanovas-Massana

John Fournier

Shelli Farhadian … (see 7 more)

Charles S. Dela Cruz

Albert I. Ko

F. Perry Wilson

Julie Hussin

Akiko Iwasaki

Abstract

The biomedical community is producing increasingly high dimensional datasets, integrated from hundreds of… (see more) patient samples, which current computational techniques struggle to explore. To uncover biological meaning from these complex datasets, we present an approach called Multiscale PHATE, which learns abstracted biological features from data that can be directly predictive of disease. Built on a coarse graining process called diffusion condensation, Multiscale PHATE learns a data topology that can be analyzed at coarse levels for high level summarizations of data, as well as at fine levels for detailed representations on subsets. We apply Multiscale PHATE to study the immune response to COVID-19 in 54 million cells from 168 hospitalized patients. Through our analysis of patient samples, we identify CD16-hi,CD66b-lo neutrophil and IFNγ+,GranzymeB+ Th17 cell responses enriched in patients who die. Furthermore, we show that population groupings Multiscale PHATE discovers can be directly fed into a classifier to predict disease outcome. We also use Multiscale PHATE-derived features to construct two different manifolds of patients, one from abstracted flow cytometry features and another directly on patient clinical features, both associating immune subsets and clinical markers with outcome.

2020-11-16

bioRxiv (preprint)

Learning General Transformations of Data for Out-of-Sample Extensions

Matthew Amodio

David van Dijk

While generative models such as GANs have been successful at mapping from noise to specific distributions of data, or more generally from on… (see more)e distribution of data to another, they cannot isolate the transformation that is occurring and apply it to a new distribution not seen in training. Thus, they memorize the domain of the transformation, and cannot generalize the transformation out of sample. To address this, we propose a new neural network called a Neuron Transformation Network (NTNet) that isolates the signal representing the transformation itself from the other signals representing internal distribution variation. This signal can then be removed from a new dataset distributed differently from the original one trained on. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our NTNet on more than a dozen synthetic and biomedical single-cell RNA sequencing datasets, where the NTNet is able to learn the data transformation performed by genetic and drug perturbations on one sample of cells and successfully apply it to another sample of cells to predict treatment outcome.

2020-08-31

Europe PubMed Central (accepted)

TrajectoryNet: A Dynamic Optimal Transport Network for Modeling Cellular Dynamics

David van Dijk

It is increasingly common to encounter data from dynamic processes captured by static cross-sectional measurements over time, particularly i… (see more)n biomedical settings. Recent attempts to model individual trajectories from this data use optimal transport to create pairwise matchings between time points. However, these methods cannot model continuous dynamics and non-linear paths that entities can take in these systems. To address this issue, we establish a link between continuous normalizing flows and dynamic optimal transport, that allows us to model the expected paths of points over time. Continuous normalizing flows are generally under constrained, as they are allowed to take an arbitrary path from the source to the target distribution. We present TrajectoryNet, which controls the continuous paths taken between distributions to produce dynamic optimal transport. We show how this is particularly applicable for studying cellular dynamics in data from single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies, and that TrajectoryNet improves upon recently proposed static optimal transport-based models that can be used for interpolating cellular distributions.

2020-07-13

International Conference on Machine Learning (Accept)