Machine learning detects metastatic breast cancer cases from linked EMR and cancer registry data.
problem Lack of metastatic recurrence data in cancer registries and EMRs.
method Semi-supervised machine learning on linked EMR and CCR data.
result Model achieved high accuracy in detecting metastatic breast cancer cases.
In order to investigate the breast cancer prediction problem on the aging population with the grades of DCIS, we conduct a tree augmented naive Bayesian network experiment trained and tested on a large clinical dataset including consecutive diagnostic mammography examinations, consequent biopsy outcomes and related can…
New model improves cancer screening prediction accuracy.
problem Modeling disease progression with heterogeneous populations and irregular data.
method Hierarchical Hidden Markov Jump Processes with piece-wise stationary transitions and scalable EM algorithm.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art models in prediction accuracy and generating Kaplan-Meier estimators.
Interventional cancer clinical trials are generally too restrictive, and some patients are often excluded on the basis of comorbidity, past or concomitant treatments, or the fact that they are over a certain age. The efficacy and safety of new treatments for patients with these characteristics are, therefore, not defin…
Study classifies pathology reports using TF-IDF features and machine learning.
problem Classifying pathology reports for cancer surveillance and diagnostic workflow.
method Extracted TF-IDF features from pathology reports and classified them using SVM, XGBoost, and Logistic Regression.
result XGBoost achieved 92% accuracy in classifying pathology reports.
Deep learning for integrating diverse clinical measurements.
problem Combining data from different measurement instruments in longitudinal clinical registries.
method Domain adaptation using deep learning for mapping items from different instruments.
result Domain adaptation can recover latent trajectories even with limited data and misalignment.
The size distribution of land plots is a result of land allocation processes in the past. In the absence of regulation this is a Markov process leading an equilibrium described by a probabilistic equation used commonly in the insurance and financial mathematics. We support this claim by analyzing the distribution of tw…
DRUM transfers cardiac arrest models across registries with missing covariates.
problem Clinical prediction models fail when key training covariates are unavailable at deployment.
method DRUM transfers models to target populations with structurally missing covariates, optimizing worst-case predictive performance over unknown target distributions.
result DRUM yields better-calibrated predictions and improved clinical classification performance across sites.
DDP models dynamic comorbidity networks from event data.
problem Understanding complex temporal patterns of co-occurring diseases.
method Developed deep diffusion processes (DDP) to model dynamic comorbidity networks.
result DDP enables accurate risk prediction and interpretable disease trajectories.
The public package registry npm is one of the biggest software registry. With its 216 911 software packages, it forms a big network of software dependencies. In this paper we evaluate various methods for finding similar packages in the npm network, using only the structure of the graph. Namely, we want to find a way of…
Study examines cryptoasset service providers in Austria, revealing global integration and distinct responses to market shocks.
problem Understanding cryptoasset integration and stress behavior in national economies.
method Directly identified on-chain addresses of Austrian crypto-asset service providers, reconstructing transaction activity across multiple cryptocurrencies.
result Austrian crypto-asset service providers are globally integrated, with distinct responses to market shocks.
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.
This paper presents the first deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to estimate the optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes from observational medical data. This framework is more flexible and adaptive for high dimensional action and state spaces than existing reinforcement learning methods to model real-life complexit…
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…
Deep learning models improve cancer detection and typing classification from gene expression data.
problem Challenges in establishing specificity for cancer diagnosis using gene expression data.
method Developed deep learning models using mRNA datasets for cancer detection and typing classification.
result Achieved 98% accuracy in cancer detection and 18 out of 32 cancer-typing classifications over 90% accuracy.
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.
Data mining techniques predict breast cancer types with high accuracy.
problem Early detection of breast cancer to reduce mortality rates.
method Twelve classification algorithms applied to the Breast Cancer Wisconsin dataset.
result High accuracy in predicting malignant and benign breast cancer.
Study examines perceptions and attitudes about breast cancer on Twitter.
problem Understanding public perceptions and attitudes towards breast cancer on social media.
method Identified and collected tweets, used topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
result Identified themes and quantified users' perceptions and emotions about breast cancer.
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.
AdaptiveNet tackles disease progression prediction in rheumatoid arthritis using deep neural networks.
problem Predicting disease progression in rheumatoid arthritis using clinical data.
method AdaptiveNet, a novel recurrent neural network architecture, that handles multiple lists of different events and missing data.
result AdaptiveNet outperforms classical baselines in disease progression prediction.
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…
L-Perceptron improves breast cancer diagnosis and survival prediction.
problem Improving early prognosis and survival prediction rates for breast cancer.
method Proposes a novel type of perceptron (L-Perceptron) for better accuracy and sensitivity.
result Achieves 97.42% and 98.73% accuracy and sensitivity in Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset.
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…
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.
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.
The study improves colorectal cancer survivability prediction by considering ethnicity.
problem Improving colorectal cancer survivability prediction using machine learning.
method Machine learning techniques applied to SEER cancer incidence database, comparing different ethnicities.
result Models perform better on single-ethnicity populations and provide different feature importance rankings.
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.
Machine learning can predict cancer with 100% accuracy on a dataset.
problem Accuracy of cancer predictions using machine learning.
method Extensive experiments on the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer dataset.
result Machine learning algorithms can be easily misled to achieve 100% accuracy.
Transfer learning from breast histopathology improves prostate cancer detection.
problem Insufficient prostate histopathology datasets for training.
method Transfer learning from breast histopathology images.
result Proposed approach outperforms transfer learning from ImageNet dataset.
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.