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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.

Nested Cavity Classifier (NCC) is a classification rule that pursues partitioning the feature space, in parallel coordinates, into convex hulls to build decision regions. It is claimed in some literatures that this geometric-based classifier is superior to many others, particularly in higher dimensions. First, we give …

2019-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

ABC improves uncertainty quantification in LLMs for clinical diagnostics.

problem Overconfident and poorly calibrated estimates of LLMs in clinical domains.
method Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) for likelihood-free inference.
result Improves accuracy by up to 46.9%, reduces Brier scores by 74.4%, and enhances calibration.

Estimates network structure and interaction rules from multiple agent trajectories.

problem Modeling multi-agent systems on networks from data.
method Jointly infers network topology and interaction kernels using non-convex optimization.
result ORALS estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal under coercivity conditions.

Recently, it was shown that there is a phase transition in the community detection problem. This transition was first computed using the cavity method, and has been proved rigorously in the case of q=2q=2 groups. However, analytic calculations using the cavity method are challenging since they require us to understand p…

2013-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces a framework for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using higher-order topological features from fMRI.

problem Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using brain network topology.
method Persistent homology to extract higher-order features (cycles, cavities) from fMRI data.
result Framework significantly outperforms existing methods in AD classification.

Predicts coherence from quantum heat engine noise using machine learning.

problem Predicting coherence in quantum heat engines from nonequilibrium fluctuations.
method Developed a machine learning protocol using K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) model.
result Machine learning successfully predicts coherence from quantum heat engine noise.

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 R2R^{2} of 0.83 and 0.845 in predicting drug responses for breast and pan-cancer cell lines, respectively.

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…

2017-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2016-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2016-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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 estimates treatment effect on survival outcomes using targeted maximum likelihood estimation.

problem Estimating treatment effect on time-to-event outcomes in clinical settings.
method Divided into three phases: estimation, feature selection, and targeted maximum likelihood estimation.
result Method performs well in high sample size or event rate conditions.

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.

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…

2017-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

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.

Histopathological images of tumors contain abundant information about how tumors grow and how they interact with their micro-environment. Better understanding of tissue phenotypes in these images could reveal novel determinants of pathological processes underlying cancer, and in turn improve diagnosis and treatment opt…

2019-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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…

2019-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗