title: Comparison of two output-coding strategies for multi-class tumor classification using gene expression data and Latent Variable Model as binary classifier.
abstract: Multi-class cancer classification based on microarray data is described. A generalized output-coding scheme based on One Versus One (OVO) combined with Latent Variable Model (LVM) is used. Results from the proposed One Versus One (OVO) outputcoding strategy is compared with the results obtained from the generalized One Versus All (OVA) method and their efficiencies of using them for multi-class tumor classification have been studied. This comparative study was done using two microarray gene expression data: Global Cancer Map (GCM) dataset and brain cancer (BC) dataset. Primary feature selection was based on fold change and penalized t-statistics. Evaluation was conducted with varying feature numbers. The OVO coding strategy worked quite well with the BC data, while both OVO and OVA results seemed to be similar for the GCM data. The selection of output coding methods for combining binary classifiers for multi-class tumor classification depends on the number of tumor types considered, the discrepancies between the tumor samples used for training as well as the heterogeneity of expression within the cancer subtypes used as training data.
authors.affiliation: Rhodes Centre for Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605, USA.
authors.forename: Sandeep J
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authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: Kelly R
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authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: Wensheng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Romdhane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rekaya
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