US 12,236,346 B2
Systems and methods for using a convolutional neural network to detect contamination
Christopher-James A. V. Yakym, Mountain View, CA (US); and Onur Sakarya, Redwood City, CA (US)
Assigned to Grail, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by GRAIL, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,458.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/085,369, filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0101135 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G16B 20/20 (2019.01); G16B 30/20 (2019.01)
CPC G06N 3/08 (2013.01) [G06F 18/2148 (2023.01); G16B 20/20 (2019.02); G16B 30/20 (2019.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of determining a contamination status of a test biological sample obtained from a test subject, comprising:
(a) obtaining, in electronic format, one or more training subject datasets, each training subject dataset comprising a corresponding training variant allele frequency of each respective training single nucleotide variant in a plurality of training single nucleotide variants;
(b) training a computational neural network based on the one or more training subject datasets, wherein the computational neural network comprises a pre-trained convolutional neural network and an untrained classifier;
(c) obtaining, in electronic format, a test subject dataset comprising a corresponding test variant allele frequency of each respective test single nucleotide variant in a plurality of test single nucleotide variants; and
(d) determining the contamination status for the test biological sample based on the trained computational neural network and the test subject dataset.