A comparative analysis of biomarker selection techniques
DESSI, NICOLETTA;PES, BARBARA
2013-01-01
Abstract
Feature selection has become the essential step in biomarker discovery from high-dimensional genomics data. It is recognized that different feature selection techniques may result in different set of biomarkers, i.e. different groups of genes highly correlated to a given pathological condition, but few direct comparisons exist that quantify these differences in a systematic way. In this paper, we propose a general methodology for comparing the outcomes of different selection techniques in the context of biomarker discovery. The comparison is carried out along two dimensions: (i) measuring the similarity/dissimilarity of selected gene sets, (ii) evaluating the implications of these differences in terms of both predictive performance and stability of selected gene sets. As a case study, we considered three benchmarks deriving from DNA micro-array experiments and conducted a comparative analysis among eight selection methods, representative of different classes of feature selection techniques. Our results show that the proposed approach can provide useful insight about the pattern of agreement of biomarker discovery techniques.File | Size | Format | |
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