title: Supervised wavelet method to predict patient survival from gene expression data.
abstract: In microarray studies, the number of samples is relatively small compared to the number of genes per sample. An important aspect of microarray studies is the prediction of patient survival based on their gene expression profile. This naturally calls for the use of a dimension reduction procedure together with the survival prediction model. In this study, a new method based on combining wavelet approximation coefficients and Cox regression was presented. The proposed method was compared with supervised principal component and supervised partial least squares methods. The different fitted Cox models based on supervised wavelet approximation coefficients, the top number of supervised principal components, and partial least squares components were applied to the data. The results showed that the prediction performance of the Cox model based on supervised wavelet feature extraction was superior to the supervised principal components and partial least squares components. The results suggested the possibility of developing new tools based on wavelets for the dimensionally reduction of microarray data sets in the context of survival analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Farhadian
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
authors.forename: Paulo J G
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Lisboa
authors.affiliation: Modeling of Noncommunicable Disease Research Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
authors.forename: Abbas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moghimbeigi
authors.affiliation: Modeling of Noncommunicable Disease Research Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
authors.forename: Jalal
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3758-3006
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poorolajal
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Health Sciences and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mahjub
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D016019:Survival Analysis; D015996:Survival Rate