Title
Ovarian cancer detection from metabolomic liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry data by support vector machines.
Abstract
The majority of ovarian cancer biomarker discovery efforts focus on the identification of proteins that can improve the predictive power of presently available diagnostic tests. We here show that metabolomics, the study of metabolic changes in biological systems, can also provide characteristic small molecule fingerprints related to this disease.In this work, new approaches to automatic classification of metabolomic data produced from sera of ovarian cancer patients and benign controls are investigated. The performance of support vector machines (SVM) for the classification of liquid chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC/TOF MS) metabolomic data focusing on recognizing combinations or "panels" of potential metabolic diagnostic biomarkers was evaluated. Utilizing LC/TOF MS, sera from 37 ovarian cancer patients and 35 benign controls were studied. Optimum panels of spectral features observed in positive or/and negative ion mode electrospray (ESI) MS with the ability to distinguish between control and ovarian cancer samples were selected using state-of-the-art feature selection methods such as recursive feature elimination and L1-norm SVM.Three evaluation processes (leave-one-out-cross-validation, 12-fold-cross-validation, 52-20-split-validation) were used to examine the SVM models based on the selected panels in terms of their ability for differentiating control vs. disease serum samples. The statistical significance for these feature selection results were comprehensively investigated. Classification of the serum sample test set was over 90% accurate indicating promise that the above approach may lead to the development of an accurate and reliable metabolomic-based approach for detecting ovarian cancer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1186/1471-2105-10-259
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
time of flight mass spectrometry,biological systems,diagnostic test,bioinformatics,liquid chromatography mass spectrometry,algorithms,feature selection,leave one out cross validation,support vector machine,cross validation,statistical significance,liquid chromatography,microarrays
Biology,Diagnostic test,Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry,Support vector machine,Small molecule,Metabolomics,Ovarian cancer,Bioinformatics,Biomarker discovery,DNA microarray
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.69
19
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Guan1210.69
Manshui Zhou2210.69
Christina Y Hampton3210.69
Benedict B Benigno4231.04
L Deette Walker5231.04
Alexander G. Gray699080.16
John F. McDonald711633.09
Facundo M Fernández8211.03