Diagnostics of ovarian cancer via metabolite analysis and machine learning.

Publication Title

Integr Biol (Camb)

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-11-2023

Keywords

california; santa monica; pni

Abstract

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the second most common cancer of the female reproductive system. Due to the asymptomatic nature of early stages of OC and an increasingly poor prognosis in later stages, methods of screening for OC are much desired. Furthermore, screening and diagnosis processes, in order to justify use on asymptomatic patients, must be convenient and non-invasive. Recent developments in machine-learning technologies have made this possible via techniques in the field of metabolomics. The objective of this research was to use existing metabolomics data on OC and various analytic methods to develop a machine-learning model for the classification of potentially OC-related metabolite biomarkers. Pathway analysis and metabolite-set enrichment analysis were performed on gathered metabolite sets. Quantitative molecular descriptors were then used with various machine-learning classifiers for the diagnostics of OC using related metabolites. We elucidated that the metabolites associated with OC used for machine-learning models are involved in five metabolic pathways linked to OC

Clinical Institute

Cancer

Clinical Institute

Women & Children

Clinical Institute

Neurosciences (Brain & Spine)

Specialty/Research Institute

Neurosciences

Specialty/Research Institute

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Specialty/Research Institute

Oncology

DOI

10.1093/intbio/zyad005

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