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ArticleBioData mining2021

Biological knowledge-slanted random forest approach for the classification of calcified aortic valve stenosis.

Erika Cantor, Rodrigo Salas, Harvey Rosas, Sandra Guauque-Olarte

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Article in BioData mining, 2021. 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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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Erika CantorInstitute of Statistics, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. erika.cantor@postgrado.uv.cl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3320-6032
Rodrigo SalasSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
Harvey RosasInstitute of Statistics, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile.
Sandra Guauque-OlarteFaculty of Dentistry, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Envigado, Colombia.
University of Valparaíso · CLUniversidad Cooperativa de Colombia · CO

Funding

National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2019:Grant N. 21190261.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCalcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is a fatal disease and there is no pharmacological treatment to prevent the progression of CAVS. This study aims to identify genes potentially implicated with CAVS in patients with congenital bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and tricuspid aortic valve (TAV) in comparison with patients having normal valves, using a knowledge-slanted random forest (RF).

resultsThis study implemented a knowledge-slanted random forest (RF) using information extracted from a protein-protein interactions network to rank genes in order to modify their selection probability to draw the candidate split-variables. A total of 15,191 genes were assessed in 19 valves with CAVS (BAV, n = 10; TAV, n = 9) and 8 normal valves. The performance of the model was evaluated using accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity to discriminate cases with CAVS. A comparison with conventional RF was also performed. The performance of this proposed approach reported improved accuracy in comparison with conventional RF to classify cases separately with BAV and TAV (Slanted RF: 59.3% versus 40.7%). When patients with BAV and TAV were grouped against patients with normal valves, the addition of prior biological information was not relevant with an accuracy of 92.6%.

conclusionThe knowledge-slanted RF approach reflected prior biological knowledge, leading to better precision in distinguishing between cases with BAV, TAV, and normal valves. The results of this study suggest that the integration of biological knowledge can be useful during difficult classification tasks.

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Calcific aortic valve diseaseGene-selectionMachine learningPrior-knowledgeRandom Forest

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