Deep learning approach for cancer subtype classification using high-dimensional gene expression data.
BMC Bioinformatics
; 23(1): 430, 2022 Oct 17.
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| ID: mdl-36253710
MOTIVATION: Studies have shown that classifying cancer subtypes can provide valuable information for a range of cancer research, from aetiology and tumour biology to prognosis and personalized treatment. Current methods usually adopt gene expression data to perform cancer subtype classification. However, cancer samples are scarce, and the high-dimensional features of their gene expression data are too sparse to allow most methods to achieve desirable classification results. RESULTS: In this paper, we propose a deep learning approach by combining a convolutional neural network (CNN) and bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU): our approach, DCGN, aims to achieve nonlinear dimensionality reduction and learn features to eliminate irrelevant factors in gene expression data. Specifically, DCGN first uses the synthetic minority oversampling technique algorithm to equalize data. The CNN can handle high-dimensional data without stress and extract important local features, and the BiGRU can analyse deep features and retain their important information; the DCGN captures key features by combining both neural networks to overcome the challenges of small sample sizes and sparse, high-dimensional features. In the experiments, we compared the DCGN to seven other cancer subtype classification methods using breast and bladder cancer gene expression datasets. The experimental results show that the DCGN performs better than the other seven methods and can provide more satisfactory classification results.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Deep Learning
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
BMC Bioinformatics
Journal subject:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China
Country of publication:
Reino Unido