A rigorous ML pipeline for binary classification in biomedical studies, focusing on pancreatic cancer.
problem Handling bias in ML models for complex biomedical data.
method Customizable ML analysis pipeline with 9 algorithms, hyperparameter optimization, and thorough evaluation.
result Comparison of ML algorithms to ExSTraCS, highlighting interpretability and bias handling.
Inflated neural networks improve IPMN diagnosis from MRI scans.
problem Challenges in diagnosing IPMN from limited annotated data and 3D volumetric MRI.
method Developed two novel inflated deep network architectures, InceptINN and DenseINN, trained on ImageNet.
result Absolute improvement of 8.76% in accuracy for diagnosing IPMN.
The paper introduces sanity tests to detect spurious correlations in AI-guided radiology systems.
problem Detecting when AI systems perform well on development data for the wrong reasons.
method Design and implementation of sanity tests to identify spurious correlations.
result Sanity tests can identify spurious correlations in AI-guided radiology systems.
Robust cancer screening model using pre-trained ensembles for biomarkers.
problem Detecting early-stage cancer, especially in hard-to-diagnose cases like pancreatic cancer.
method Meta-trained Hyperfast model for robust classification, combined with ensembling of XGBoost and LightGBM.
result Achieved highest AUC of 0.9929 and robust performance on imbalanced datasets.
Consensus Monte Carlo clusters big data with shared anchors.
problem Clustering and feature allocation in large datasets.
method Bayesian nonparametric models, Dirichlet process, Indian buffet process, consensus Monte Carlo.
result Valid for various sampling models and priors.
Bayesian tree ensemble model for estimating treatment effects in high-dimensional survival data.
problem Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in censored survival data with many covariates.
method Developed a Bayesian tree ensemble model with a horseshoe prior for adaptive shrinkage.
result Accurately estimates treatment effects in high-dimensional covariate spaces and non-linear functions.
SML improves pancreatic mass diagnosis accuracy using CT images.
problem Improving accuracy in pancreatic mass screening using CT imaging.
method Spectral machine learning method trained on 30,000 images, choosing fundamental images based on eigenvectors and removing irrelevant pixels.
result Achieved 94.6% test accuracy in diagnosing 113 patients.
In this thesis we present the novel semi-supervised network-based algorithm P-Net, which is able to rank and classify patients with respect to a specific phenotype or clinical outcome under study. The peculiar and innovative characteristic of this method is that it builds a network of samples/patients, where the nodes …
We introduce a new approach for topic modeling that is supervised by survival analysis. Specifically, we build on recent work on unsupervised topic modeling with so-called anchor words by providing supervision through an elastic-net regularized Cox proportional hazards model. In short, an anchor word being present in a…
Flexible variable selection handles missing data for better biomarker panels.
problem Identifying relevant features from incomplete data sets.
method Nonparametric variable selection combined with multiple imputation.
result Improved biomarker panels with higher classification and variable selection performance.
Binary PheNorm extends phenotype labeling for EHRs using binary silver labels.
problem Lack of gold-standard phenotype labels in EHR studies.
method Proposes Binary PheNorm, an extension that uses binary silver labels directly in phenotype scoring.
result Binary PheNorm achieved strong discrimination using binary labels alone and improved performance when combined with count labels.
Model predicts anti-cancer drug responses using gene and molecular data.
problem Expensive and time-consuming cancer drug discovery and tailoring.
method Uses variational autoencoders and multi-layer perceptrons to encode gene expression and drug data.
result High average R2 of 0.83 and 0.845 in predicting drug responses for breast and pan-cancer cell lines, respectively. Study uses machine learning to predict heart failure in cancer patients.
problem Early detection of cancer patients at risk for cardiotoxicity.
method Examined four machine learning algorithms on 143,199 cancer patients.
result Gradient boosting model achieved best AUC score of 0.9077.
System accurately detects lung cancer from CT images.
problem Early and accurate detection of lung cancer.
method Developed algorithms using a dataset of CT images.
result Accuracy of 72.2% on test dataset.
We estimate treatment cost-savings from early cancer diagnosis. For breast, lung, prostate and colorectal cancers and melanoma, which account for more than 50% of new incidences projected in 2017, we combine published cancer treatment cost estimates by stage with incidence rates by stage at diagnosis. We extrapolate to…
We present a novel method for extracting cancer signatures by applying statistical risk models (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2732453) from quantitative finance to cancer genome data. Using 1389 whole genome sequenced samples from 14 cancers, we identify an "overall" mode of somatic mutational noise. We give a prescription …
Study predicts 10-year survival rates for breast cancer patients.
problem Predicting long-term survival of breast cancer patients.
method Machine learning approaches to assess survival rates.
result Improved accuracy in predicting 10-year survival.
Paper identifies key CpG methylation sites for breast cancer.
problem Early detection and treatment of breast cancer.
method Used machine learning on TCGA dataset to classify cancer vs. non-cancer samples.
result Reduced model with 25 key CpG sites achieves over 94% accuracy.
With the increased affordability and availability of whole-genome sequencing, large-scale and high-throughput gene expression is widely used to characterize diseases, including cancers. However, establishing specificity in cancer diagnosis using gene expression data continues to pose challenges due to the high dimensio…
Deep learning predicts breast cancer with high accuracy from patient data.
problem Early detection of breast cancer from patient data.
method Feature selection and k-fold Monte Carlo cross-validation using deep learning.
result Deep learning model effectively distinguishes between cancer and healthy patients.
Machine learning accurately diagnoses cancer from whole genome sequencing data.
problem Accurate cancer diagnosis at all stages.
method Novel MLAC (Machine Learning Against Cancer) method using next-gen RNA sequencing.
result Perfect precision, sensitivity, and specificity achieved for most tumor types.
Neural networks improve cancer risk prediction from family history data.
problem Improving cancer risk prediction from family history data using machine learning.
method Developed and trained neural network models on large pedigrees to predict hereditary cancers.
result Neural networks can achieve nearly optimal prediction performance and outperform traditional models in misreported data.
Over the past decades, both critical care and cancer care have improved substantially. Due to increased cancer-specific survival, we hypothesized that both the number of cancer patients admitted to the ICU and overall survival have increased since the millennium change. MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care data…
Lung cancer continues to be a major healthcare challenge with high morbidity and mortality rates among both men and women worldwide. The majority of lung cancer cases are of non-small cell lung cancer type. With the advent of targeted cancer therapy, it is imperative not only to properly diagnose but also sub-classify …
We present *K-means clustering algorithm and source code by expanding statistical clustering methods applied in https://ssrn.com/abstract=2802753 to quantitative finance. *K-means is statistically deterministic without specifying initial centers, etc. We apply *K-means to extracting cancer signatures from genome data w…
Accurately predicting drug responses to cancer is an important problem hindering oncologists' efforts to find the most effective drugs to treat cancer, which is a core goal in precision medicine. The scientific community has focused on improving this prediction based on genomic, epigenomic, and proteomic datasets measu…
As much as data science is playing a pivotal role everywhere, healthcare also finds it prominent application. Breast Cancer is the top rated type of cancer amongst women; which took away 627,000 lives alone. This high mortality rate due to breast cancer does need attention, for early detection so that prevention can be…
System automates identification of cancer drug repurposing from PubMed.
problem Manual extraction of cancer drug repurposing evidence from scientific publications is infeasible.
method NLP pipeline including querying, filtering, entity extraction, classification, and study type classification.
result Automated system extracts cancer drug repurposing evidence from PubMed abstracts.
Study identifies biomarkers for lung cancer in female non-smokers.
problem Identifying prognostic biomarkers for stage III NSCLC in non-smoking females.
method Gene expression profiling and XGBoost machine learning algorithm.
result Top biomarkers validated in literature, with AUC score of 0.835.
Among American women, the rate of breast cancer is only second to lung cancer. An estimated 12.4% women will develop breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. The widespread use of social media across the socio-economic spectrum offers unparalleled ways to facilitate information sharing, in particular as it pert…
PathologyGAN learns deep representations of cancer tissue images.
problem Limited high-quality labels for cancer tissue images.
method Developed a GAN framework for unsupervised learning of cancer tissue phenotypes.
result Generated high-quality images with interpretable latent space.
Deep CNN model improves breast cancer screening exam classification.
problem Improving accuracy in breast cancer screening exam classification.
method Localization-based deep CNN trained on 200,000 exams.
result AUC of 0.919 in predicting malignancy, reducing error rate by 23%.
We apply our statistically deterministic machine learning/clustering algorithm *K-means (recently developed in https://ssrn.com/abstract=2908286) to 10,656 published exome samples for 32 cancer types. A majority of cancer types exhibit mutation clustering structure. Our results are in-sample stable. They are also out-o…
Modeling correlated mutations in cancer for personalized treatment.
problem Identifying mutations for personalized cancer therapy in heterogeneous profiles.
method Proposed correlated zero-inflated negative binomial process with mixed beta-Bernoulli and variational inference.
result Identified biologically relevant correlations between somatic mutations.
Network Elastic Net identifies smoking-specific gene expression for lung cancer prognosis.
problem Identifying smoking-specific gene expression biomarkers in lung cancer prognosis.
method Introduces Network Elastic Net, a method that clusters and regresses on graphs based on smoking behavior.
result Shows efficacy of clusters in identifying cancer stages using gene expression and smoking behavior.
Automates deep learning model development for cancer data.
problem Manual design of high-performing deep learning models for cancer data is time-consuming and requires expertise.
method Reinforcement-learning-based neural architecture search with custom building blocks.
result Automated discovery of deep neural network architectures with similar or higher accuracy.
BIDIFAC+ factorizes linked matrices for cancer studies.
problem Integrating multiple omics platforms across various cancer types.
method Flexible approach to simultaneous factorization and decomposition of linked matrices using BIDIFAC+.
result Identifies shared and specific modes of variability across multiple omics platforms and cancer types.
Paper proposes scalable method for analyzing multi-omic data.
problem Integrating high-dimensional multi-omic data for cancer subtyping.
method Mixed graphical model approach using Birth-Death MCMC algorithm.
result Our method outperforms LASSO and standard BDMCMC in computational efficiency and model selection accuracy.
Model learns cancer tissue images onto a low-dimensional space revealing tissue characteristics.
problem Improving cancer diagnosis through high-fidelity digital pathology.
method Deep generative model using PathologyGAN to map real images onto a latent space.
result Latent space encodes morphological characteristics and reveals distinct tissue clusters.
Breast cancer is the most frequently reported cancer type among the women around the globe and beyond that it has the second highest female fatality rate among all cancer types. Despite all the progresses made in prevention and early intervention, early prognosis and survival prediction rates are still unsatisfactory. …
Study identifies cancer genes through graph anomaly analysis of protein interactions.
problem Insufficient modeling of biological information in protein interaction networks for cancer gene identification.
method Proposes HIerarchical-Perspective Graph Neural Network (HIPGNN) to detect weight heterogeneity and spectral flattening in cancer gene nodes.
result HIPGNN detects weight heterogeneity and spectral flattening, leading to improved cancer gene identification.
Paper optimizes sparse feature selection for cancer detection using GSVP and SVM.
problem Sparse feature selection for cancer detection.
method Regularized GSVP with proximal gradient descent, feature selection via SVM.
result Near-perfect balanced accuracy with few selected features.
Deep neural network for cancer classification using autoencoders.
problem Cancer classification using molecular information.
method Using a Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) as weight initialization for a deep neural network, comparing two approaches: fixed weights and fine-tuning. Embedding strategies included encoding layers and complete autoencoder.
result Best F1 score of 98.04% for identifying thyroid cancer samples.
The study of high-throughput genomic profiles from a pharmacogenomics viewpoint has provided unprecedented insights into the oncogenic features modulating drug response. A recent screening of ~1,000 cancer cell lines to a collection of anti-cancer drugs illuminated the link between genotypes and vulnerability. However,…
Objectives: Most cancer data sources lack information on metastatic recurrence. Electronic medical records (EMRs) and population-based cancer registries contain complementary information on cancer treatment and outcomes, yet are rarely used synergistically. To enable detection of metastatic breast cancer (MBC), we appl…
Machine learning models improve cancer type classification accuracy.
problem Early and accurate cancer diagnosis is challenging due to high costs and biological marker limitations.
method Assessed five machine learning algorithms for 17 cancer types using RNA-seq data.
result Ensemble algorithms achieve 100% accuracy in 14 out of 17 cancer types.
A Deep Autoencoder based content retrieval algorithm is proposed for prediction and differentiation of cancer types based on the presence of epigenetic patterns of DNA methylation identified in genetic regions known as CpG islands. The developed deep learning system uses a CpG island state classification sub-system to …
AI detects oral pre-cancerous lesions with high accuracy.
problem Manual screening of oral cavity cancer is expensive and lacks specialists.
method Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) using transfer learning.
result DCNN models achieve high accuracy in distinguishing between benign and pre-cancerous tongue lesions.