Imaging-genetic data mapping is important for clinical outcome prediction like survival analysis. In this paper, we propose a supervised conditional Gaussian graphical model (SuperCGGM) to uncover survival associated mapping between pathological images and genetic data. The proposed method integrates heterogeneous modal data into the survival model by weighted projection within the data. To obtain a sparse solution, we employ l-1 regularization to the partial log likelihood loss function and propose a cyclic coordinate ascent algorithm to solve it. It also gives a way to bridge the gap between the supervised model with conditional Gaussian graphical model (CGGM). Compared to nine state-of-the-art methods like SuperPCA, CGGM, etc., our method is superior due to its ability of integrating diverse information from heterogeneous modal data in a supervised way. The extensive experiments also show the strong power of SuperCGGM in mapping survival associated image and gene expression signatures.

MOTIVATION: Tissue samples of tumor cells mixed with stromal cells cause underdetection of gene expression signatures associated with cancer prognosis or response to treatment. In silico dissection of mixed cell samples is essential for analyzing expression data generated in cancer studies. Currently, a systematic approach is lacking to address three challenges in computational deconvolution: (i) violation of linear addition of expression levels from multiple tissues when log-transformed microarray data are used; (ii) estimation of both tumor proportion and tumor-specific expression, when neither is known a priori; and (iii) estimation of expression profiles for individual patients. RESULTS: We have developed a statistical method for deconvolving mixed cancer transcriptomes, DeMix, which addresses the aforementioned issues in array-based expression data. We demonstrate the performance of our model in synthetic and real, publicly available, datasets. DeMix can be applied to ongoing biomarker-based clinical studies and to the vast expression datasets previously generated from mixed tumor and stromal cell samples. AVAILABILITY: All codes are written in C and integrated into an R function, which is available at http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/∼wwang7/DeMix.html. CONTACT: [email protected] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.