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ArticleJournal of medical systems2007

Efficacy of interferon treatment for chronic hepatitis C predicted by feature subset selection and support vector machine.

Jun Yang, Anto Satriyo Nugroho, Kazunobu Yamauchi, Kentaro Yoshioka, Jiang Zheng, Kai Wang, Ken Kato, Susumu Kuroyanagi, Akira Iwata

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Article in Journal of medical systems, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jun YangDepartment of Medical Information and Management Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, 65, Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan. junyang@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Anto Satriyo Nugroho
Kazunobu Yamauchi
Kentaro Yoshioka
Jiang Zheng
Kai Wang
Ken Kato
Susumu Kuroyanagi
Akira Iwata
Nagoya University · JPNagoya Institute of Technology · JPChukyo University · JPFujita Health University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic hepatitis C is a disease that is difficult to treat. At present, interferon might be the only drug, which can cure this kind of disease, but its efficacy is limited and patients face the risk of side effects and high expense, so doctors considering interferon must make a serious choice. The purpose of this study is to establish a simple model and use the clinical data to predict the interferon efficacy. This model is a combination of Feature Subset Selection and the Classifier using a Support Vector Machine (SVM). The study indicates that when five features have been selected, the identification by the SVM is as follows: the identification rate for the effective group is 85%, and the ineffective group 83%. Analysis of selected features show that HCV-RNA level, hepatobiopsy, HCV genotype, ALP and CHE are the most significant features. The results thus serve for the doctors' reference when they make decisions regarding interferon treatment.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAntiviral AgentsBiopsyDecision Support Systems, ClinicalFemaleGenotypeHepatitis C, ChronicHumansInterferonsLiver Function TestsMaleMiddle AgedRNAAntiviral AgentsInterferonsRNA

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PMID17489504
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