Multi-step dimensionality reduction and semi-supervised graph-based tumor classification using gene expression data

摘要

ObjectiveBoth supervised methods and unsupervised methods have been widely used to solve the tumor classification problem based on gene expression profiles. This paper introduces a semi-supervised graph-based method for tumor classification. Feature extraction plays a key role in tumor classification based on gene expression profiles, and can greatly improve the performance of a classifier. In this paper we propose a novel multi-step dimensionality reduction method for extracting tumor-related features.