Advanced machine learning techniques for microarray spot quality classification

Neural Computing and Applications - Tập 19 - Trang 471-475 - 2010
Loris Nanni1, Alessandra Lumini1, Sheryl Brahnam2
1Department of Electronic, Informatics and Systems (DEIS), Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy
2Computer Information Systems, Missouri State University, Springfield, USA

Tóm tắt

It is well known that microarray printing, hybridization, and washing oftentimes create erroneous measurements, and these errors detrimentally impact machine microarray spot quality classification. Thus, it is crucial to identify and remove these errors if automation is to replace the still common practice of visually assessing spot quality, an extremely expensive and time-consuming procedure. A major problem in microarray spot quality classification methods proposed in the literature is the correlation among the features extracted from the spots. In this paper, we propose using a random subspace ensemble of neural networks and a feature selection algorithm to improve the performance of our microarray spot quality classification method. Our best method obtains an error under the receiver operating characteristic curve (EAUR) of 0.3 outperforming the stand-alone support vector machine EAUR of 1.7. The consistency of our proposed approach makes it a viable alternative to the labour-intensive manual method of spot quality assessment.

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