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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2021

Towards multi-label classification: Next step of machine learning for microbiome research.

Shunyao Wu, Yuzhu Chen, Zhiruo Li, Jian Li, Fengyang Zhao, Xiaoquan Su

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shunyao WuCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Yuzhu ChenCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Zhiruo LiSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Jian LiCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Fengyang ZhaoCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Xiaoquan SuCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Qingdao University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine learning (ML) has been widely used in microbiome research for biomarker selection and disease prediction. By training microbial profiles of samples from patients and healthy controls, ML classifiers constructs data models by community features that highly correlated with the target diseases, so as to determine the status of new samples. To clearly understand the host-microbe interaction of specific diseases, previous studies always focused on well-designed cohorts, in which each sample was exactly labeled by a single status type. However, in fact an individual may be associated with multiple diseases simultaneously, which introduce additional variations on microbial patterns that interferes the status detection. More importantly, comorbidities or complications can be missed by regular ML models, limiting the practical application of microbiome techniques. In this review, we summarize the typical ML approaches of single-label classification for microbiome research, and demonstrate their limitations in multi-label disease detection using a real dataset. Then we prospect a further step of ML towards multi-label classification that potentially solves the aforementioned problem, including a series of promising strategies and key technical issues for applying multi-label classification in microbiome-based studies.

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Machine learningMicrobiomeMulti-label classificationSingle-label classification

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PMID34093989
PMCPMC8131981
OpenAlexW3159499196

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