Abstract

Early detection of a tumor's site of origin is particularly important for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The employment of gene expression profiles for different cancer types or subtypes has already shown significant advantages over traditional cancer classification methods. Here, we apply a neural network clustering theory, Fuzzy ART, to generate the division of cancer samples, which is useful in investigating unknown cancer types or subtypes. On the other hand, we use diffusion maps, which interpret the eigenfunctions of Markov matrices as a system of coordinates on the original data set in order to obtain efficient representation of data geometric descriptions, for dimensionality reduction. The curse of dimensionality is a major problem in cancer type recognition-oriented gene expression data analysis due to the overwhelming number of measures of gene expression levels versus the small number of samples. Experimental results on the small round blue-cell tumor (SRBCT) data set, compared with other widely used clustering algorithms, demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method in addressing multidimensional gene expression data.

Meeting Name

2008 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Computer Science

Sponsor(s)

Mary K. Finley Missouri Endowment
National Science Foundation (U.S.)

Keywords and Phrases

Cancer Tissues; Early Detection; Tumor

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jun 2008

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