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Title

A heuristic method for discovering biomarker candidates based on rough set theory

 

Authors

Yasuo Kudo* & Yoshifumi Okada

 

Affiliation

College of Information and Systems, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto, Muroran, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan

 

Email

kudo@csse.muroran-it.ac.jp; *Corresponding author

 

Phone

+81 143 46 5469

 

Fax

+81 143 46 5499

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received May 13, 2011; Accepted May 23, 2011; Published May 26, 2011

 

Abstract

We apply a combined method of heuristic attribute reduction and evaluation of relative reducts in rough set theory to gene expression data analysis. Our method extracts as many relative reducts as possible from the gene-expression data and selects the best relative reduct from the viewpoint of constructing useful decision rules. Using a breast cancer dataset and a leukemia dataset, we evaluated the classification accuracy for the test samples and biological meanings of the rules. As a result, our method presented superior classification accuracy comparable to existing salient classifiers. Moreover, our method extracted interesting rules including a novel biomarker gene identified in recent studies. These results indicate the possibility that our method can serve as a useful tool for gene expression data analysis.

 

Citation

Kudo & Okada. Bioinformation 6(5): 200-203 (2011)

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.