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Multiclass Classification of SRBCTs

A novel approach to multiclass tumor classification using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) was introduced in a recent paper cite{Khan2001}. The method successfully classified and diagnosed small, round blue cell tumors (SRBCTs) of childhood into four distinct categories, neuroblastoma (NB), rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and the Ewing family of tumors (EWS), using cDNA gene expression profiles of samples that included both tumor biopsy material and cell lines. We report that using an approach similar to the one reported by Yeang et al cite{Yeang2001}, i.e. multiclass classification by combining outputs of binary classifiers, we achieved equal accuracy with much fewer features. We report the performances of 3 binary classifiers (k-nearest neighbors (kNN), weighted-voting (WV), and support vector machines (SVM)) with 3 feature selection techniques (Golub's Signal to Noise (SN) ratios cite{Golub99}, Fisher scores (FSc) and Mukherjee's SVM feature selection (SVMFS))cite{Sayan98}.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/7238
Date25 August 2001
CreatorsYeo, Gene, Poggio, Tomaso
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format17 p., 6552074 bytes, 816114 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf
RelationAIM-2001-018, CBCL-206

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