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ArticleCancers2024

Topological Structures in the Space of Treatment-Naïve Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

Reginald L McGee, Jake Reed, Caitlin E Coombes, Carmen D Herling, Michael J Keating, Lynne V Abruzzo, Kevin R Coombes

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Article in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Reginald L McGeeDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041, USA.
Jake ReedDepartment of Biostatistics, Data Science, and Epidemiology, Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
Caitlin E CoombesDepartment of Anesthesiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA.
Carmen D HerlingClinic of Hematology, Cellular Therapy, Hemostaseology, and Infectious Diseases, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0000-4223-5316
Michael J KeatingDepartment of Leukemia, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Lynne V AbruzzoDepartment of Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Kevin R CoombesDepartment of Biostatistics, Data Science, and Epidemiology, Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7630-2123

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Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University Startup Funds
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Abstract

Patients are complex and heterogeneous; clinical data sets are complicated by noise, missing data, and the presence of mixed-type data. Using such data sets requires understanding the high-dimensional "space of patients", composed of all measurements that define all relevant phenotypes. The current state-of-the-art merely defines spatial groupings of patients using cluster analyses. Our goal is to apply topological data analysis (TDA), a new unsupervised technique, to obtain a more complete understanding of patient space. We applied TDA to a space of 266 previously untreated patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), using the "daisy" metric to compute distances between clinical records. We found clear evidence for both loops and voids in the CLL data. To interpret these structures, we developed novel computational and graphical methods. The most persistent loop and the most persistent void can be explained using three dichotomized, prognostically important factors in CLL:

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mixed-type datapatient spaceTDAtopological data analysis

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PMCPMC11311631

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