Feature Extension of Gut Microbiome Data for Deep Neural Network-Based Colorectal Cancer Classification

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most deadly cancer worldwide. The use of gut microbiome in early detection of the disease has attracted much attention from the research community, mainly because of its noninvasive nature. Recent achievements in next generation sequencing technology have led to...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE access 2021, Vol.9, p.23565-23578
Main Authors: Mulenga, Mwenge, Abdul Kareem, Sameem, Qalid Md Sabri, Aznul, Seera, Manjeevan, Govind, Suresh, Samudi, Chandramathi, Mohamad, Saharuddin Bin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Artificial neural networks
Cancer
Classification
Classification algorithms
Colorectal cancer
Data augmentation
Data models
Datasets
deep neural network
feature dominance
feature extension
Feature extraction
gut microbiome
Machine learning
Microorganisms
Neural networks
normalization
Sequential analysis
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most deadly cancer worldwide. The use of gut microbiome in early detection of the disease has attracted much attention from the research community, mainly because of its noninvasive nature. Recent achievements in next generation sequencing technology have led to increased availability of sequence data and enabled an environment for the growth of gut microbiome research. The use of conventional machine learning algorithms for automatic detection of CRC based on the microbiome is limited by factors such as low accuracy and the need for manual selection of features. Despite their success in other fields, Deep Neural Network (DNN) algorithms have limitations in microbiome-based CRC classification. These limitations include high dimensionality of microbiome data and other characteristics associated with sequence data such as feature dominance. In this paper, we propose a feature augmentation approach that aggregates data normalization methods to extend existing features of a dataset. The proposed method combines feature extension with data augmentation to improve CRC classification performance of a DNN model. The proposed model obtained area under the curve (AUC) scores of 0.96 and 0.89 on two publicly available microbiome datasets.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3050838