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ArticleBioData mining2024

Knowledge-slanted random forest method for high-dimensional data and small sample size with a feature selection application for gene expression data.

Erika Cantor, Sandra Guauque-Olarte, Roberto León, Steren Chabert, Rodrigo Salas

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Article in BioData mining, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Erika CantorDepartment of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 110221, Colombia. erika.cantor@javeriana.edu.co.
Sandra Guauque-Olarte *Department of basic sciences and oral medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 16486, Colombia.
Roberto LeónDepartment of Computer Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago de Chile, 8940897, Chile.
Steren ChabertSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaíso, 2360102, Chile.
Rodrigo Salas *School of Biomedical Engineering, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaíso, 2360102, Chile.

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This work was supported by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2019:Grant N. 21190261. The authors acknowledge the support given by Chilean ANID FONDECYT research grants number 1221938 and 1231268, and ANID Millennium Science Initiative Program.
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Abstract

The use of prior knowledge in the machine learning framework has been considered a potential tool to handle the curse of dimensionality in genetic and genomics data. Although random forest (RF) represents a flexible non-parametric approach with several advantages, it can provide poor accuracy in high-dimensional settings, mainly in scenarios with small sample sizes. We propose a knowledge-slanted RF that integrates biological networks as prior knowledge into the model to improve its performance and explainability, exemplifying its use for selecting and identifying relevant genes. knowledge-slanted RF is a combination of two stages. First, prior knowledge represented by graphs is translated by running a random walk with restart algorithm to determine the relevance of each gene based on its connection and localization on a protein-protein interaction network. Then, each relevance is used to modify the selection probability to draw a gene as a candidate split-feature in the conventional RF. Experiments in simulated datasets with very small sample sizes

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ExplainabilityFeature selectionGene selectionHigh-dimensionalPrior knowledgeProtein-protein interactionRandom forestRNA-Seq

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