An expert system to classify microarray gene expression data using gene selection by decision tree

  • Authors:
  • Jorng-Tzong Horng;Li-Cheng Wu;Baw-Juine Liu;Jun-Li Kuo;Wen-Horng Kuo;Jin-Jian Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan and Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Taiwan an ...;Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan;College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan;College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Gene selection can help the analysis of microarray gene expression data. However, it is very difficult to obtain a satisfactory classification result by machine learning techniques because of both the curse-of-dimensionality problem and the over-fitting problem. That is, the dimensions of the features are too large but the samples are too few. In this study, we designed an approach that attempts to avoid these two problems and then used it to select a small set of significant biomarker genes for diagnosis. Finally, we attempted to use these markers for the classification of cancer. This approach was tested the approach on a number of microarray datasets in order to demonstrate that it performs well and is both useful and reliable.