A hybrid gene selection algorithm based on interaction information for microarray-based cancer classification

Songyot Nakariyakul

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: We address gene selection and machine learning methods for cancer classification using microarray gene expression data. Due to the high dimensionality of microarray data, traditional gene selection algorithms are filter-based, focusing on intrinsic properties of the data such as distance, dependency, and correlation. These methods are fast but select far too many genes to use for the classification task. In this work, we present a new hybrid filter-wrapper gene subset selection algorithm that is an improved modification of our prior algorithm. Our proposed method employs interaction information to rank candidate genes to add into a gene subset. It then conditionally adds one gene at a time into the current subset and verifies whether the resultant subset improves the classification performance significantly. Only significant genes are selected, and the candidate gene list is updated every time a gene is added to the subset. Thus, our gene selection algorithm is very dynamic. Experimental results on ten public cancer microarray data sets show that our method consistently outperforms prior gene selection algorithms in terms of classification accuracy, while requiring a small number of selected genes.

Date: 2019
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