Machine learning-based plasma-derived extracellular vesicle signatures for digestive system cancers prediction

  • 0Department of Gastroenterology Surgery, Heji Hospital Affiliated to Changzhi Medical College, Shanxi 046012 China.

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Summary

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Plasma-derived extracellular vesicle RNA shows promise for diagnosing digestive system cancers (DSCs). A machine learning model identified nine exosomal RNA biomarkers, offering a potential non-invasive diagnostic tool for these challenging malignancies.

Area Of Science

  • Oncology
  • Molecular Diagnostics
  • Bioinformatics

Background

  • Digestive system cancers (DSCs) are difficult to diagnose early, with limited accuracy from traditional biomarkers.
  • Plasma-derived extracellular vesicle (PDEV) RNA is a promising diagnostic tool, but its use in DSCs requires further investigation.

Purpose Of The Study

  • To develop and validate a machine learning-based diagnostic model for DSCs using PDEV RNA.
  • To identify novel exosomal RNA biomarkers for non-invasive DSCs detection.

Main Methods

  • Integrated PDEV sequencing data from exoRBase 2.0 for 444 participants (326 DSCs patients, 118 healthy).
  • Constructed and validated a PDEV-diagnostic model using machine learning algorithms (XGBoost) with 5-fold cross-validation.
  • Assessed exosomal RNA features using bulk and single RNA-seq data.

Main Results

  • The XGBoost model achieved high diagnostic accuracy, with AUCs of 0.83 (training) and 0.94 (test sets).
  • Identified nine exosomal RNA predictors (BANK1, MALAT1, FGA, UBR4, ILR-7, FGB, PLPP5, PCAT19, CIITA) for DSCs.
  • Demonstrated the model's performance across training and test datasets.

Conclusions

  • Machine learning models utilizing PDEV RNA show high accuracy for DSCs diagnosis.
  • The identified nine exosomal mRNAs/lncRNAs are promising non-invasive biomarkers for early DSCs detection.