Identification of signatures in biomedical spectra using domain knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Erinija Pranckeviciene;Ray Somorjai;Richard Baumgartner;Moon-Gu Jeon

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, 435 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, Man., Canada R3B 1Y6 and Kaunas University of Technology, Studentu 50, Kaunas, LT 3031, Lithuania;Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, 435 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, Man., Canada R3B 1Y6;Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, 435 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, Man., Canada R3B 1Y6;Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, 435 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, Man., Canada R3B 1Y6

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Objective: Demonstrate that incorporating domain knowledge into feature selection methods helps identify interpretable features with predictive capability comparable to a state-of-the-art classifier. Methods: Two feature selection methods, one using a genetic algorithm (GA) the other a L"1-norm support vector machine (SVM), were investigated on three real-world biomedical magnetic resonance (MR) spectral datasets of increasing difficulty. Consensus sets of the feature sets obtained by the two methods were also assessed. Results and conclusions: Features identified independently by the two methods and by their consensus, determine class-discriminatory groups or individual features, whose predictive power compares favorably with that of a state-of-the-art classifier. Furthermore, the identified feature signatures form stable groupings at definite spectral positions, hence are readily interpretable. This is a useful and important practical result for generating hypothesis for the domain expert. t.