Multi-class cancer classification by semi-supervised ellipsoid ARTMAP with gene expression data.
To accurately identify the site of origin of a tumor is crucial to cancer diagnosis and treatment. With the emergence of DNA microarray technologies, constructing gene expression profiles for different cancer types has already become a promising means for cancer classification. In addition to binary classification, the discrimination of multiple tumor types is also important semi-supervised ellipsoid ARTMAP (ssEAM) is a novel neural network architecture rooted in adaptive resonance theory suitable for classification tasks. ssEAM can achieve fast, stable and finite learning and create hyper-ellipsoidal clusters inducing complex nonlinear decision boundaries. Here, we demonstrate the capability of ssEAM to discriminate multi-class cancer through analyzing two publicly available cancer datasets based on their gene expression profiles.
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Rui
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Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Missouri Univ., Rolla, MO 65409-0249, USA.
Anagnostopoulos
Georgios C
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Wunsch
Donald C
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