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.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
- ART Neural Nets,
- Cancer,
- Genetics,
- Medical Diagnostic Computing,
- Molecular Biophysics,
- Neural Net Architecture,
- Patient Diagnosis,
- Tumours
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/donald-wunsch/277/