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We present an application of BioDCV, a computational environment for semisupervised profiling with Support Vector Machines, aimed at detecting outliers and deriving informative subtypes of patients with respect to pathological features. First, a sample-tracking curve is extracted for each sample as a by-product of the profiling process. The curves are then clustered according to a distance derived from Dynamic Time Warping. The procedure allows identification of noisy cases, whose removal is shown to improve predictive accuracy and the stability of derived gene profiles. After removal of outliers, the semisupervised process is repeated and subgroups of patients are specified. The procedure is demonstrated through the analysis of a liver cancer dataset of 213 samples described by 1 993 genes and by pathological features.
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Paoli, S., Jurman, G., Albanese, D., Merler, S., Furlanello, C. (2006). Semisupervised Profiling of Gene Expressions and Clinical Data. In: Bloch, I., Petrosino, A., Tettamanzi, A.G.B. (eds) Fuzzy Logic and Applications. WILF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11676935_35
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