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    Inflammatory Bowel Disease Biomarkers of Human Gut Microbiota Selected via Different Feature Selection Methods
    (PeerJ Inc, 2022-04-25) Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Lar, Hilal Hac; Jabeer, Amhar; Nalbantoglu, Ozkan Ufuk; Aran, Oya; Yousef, Malik; Hacilar, Hilal
    The tremendous boost in next generation sequencing and in the "omics" technologies makes it possible to characterize the human gut microbiome-the collective genomes of the microbial community that reside in our gastrointestinal tract. Although some of these microorganisms are considered to be essential regulators of our immune system, the alteration of the complexity and eubiotic state of microbiota might promote autoimmune and inflammatory disorders such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), obesity, and carcinogenesis. IBD, comprising Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a gut-related, multifactorial disease with an unknown etiology. IBD presents defects in the detection and control of the gut microbiota, associated with unbalanced immune reactions, genetic mutations that confer susceptibility to the disease, and complex environmental conditions such as westernized lifestyle. Although some existing studies attempt to unveil the composition and functional capacity of the gut microbiome in relation to IBD diseases, a comprehensive picture of the gut microbiome in IBD patients is far from being complete. Due to the complexity of metagenomic studies, the applications of the state-of-the-art machine learning techniques became popular to address a wide range of questions in the field of metagenomic data analysis. In this regard, using IBD associated metagenomics dataset, this study utilizes both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms, (i) to generate a classification model that aids IBD diagnosis, (ii) to discover IBD-associated biomarkers, (iii) to discover subgroups of IBD patients using k-means and hierarchical clustering approaches. To deal with the high dimensionality of features, we applied robust feature selection algorithms such as Conditional Mutual Information Maximization (CMIM), Fast Correlation Based Filter (FCBF), min redundancy max relevance (mRMR), Select K Best (SKB), Information Gain (IG) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). In our experiments with 100-fold Monte Carlo cross-validation (MCCV), XGBoost, IG, and SKB methods showed a considerable effect in terms of minimizing the microbiota used for the diagnosis of IBD and thus reducing the cost and time. We observed that compared to Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine, Logitboost, Adaboost, and stacking ensemble classifiers, our Random Forest classifier resulted in better performance measures for the classification of IBD. Our findings revealed potential microbiome-mediated mechanisms of IBD and these findings might be useful for the development of microbiome-based diagnostics.
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    Citation - WoS: 16
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    GeNetOntology: Identifying Affected Gene Ontology Terms via Grouping, Scoring, and Modeling of Gene Expression Data Utilizing Biological Knowledge-Based Machine Learning
    (Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-08-21) Ersoz, Nur Sebnem; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Yousef, Malik
    Introduction: Identifying significant sets of genes that are up/downregulated under specific conditions is vital to understand disease development mechanisms at the molecular level. Along this line, in order to analyze transcriptomic data, several computational feature selection (i.e., gene selection) methods have been proposed. On the other hand, uncovering the core functions of the selected genes provides a deep understanding of diseases. In order to address this problem, biological domain knowledge-based feature selection methods have been proposed. Unlike computational gene selection approaches, these domain knowledge-based methods take the underlying biology into account and integrate knowledge from external biological resources. Gene Ontology (GO) is one such biological resource that provides ontology terms for defining the molecular function, cellular component, and biological process of the gene product.Methods: In this study, we developed a tool named GeNetOntology which performs GO-based feature selection for gene expression data analysis. In the proposed approach, the process of Grouping, Scoring, and Modeling (G-S-M) is used to identify significant GO terms. GO information has been used as the grouping information, which has been embedded into a machine learning (ML) algorithm to select informative ontology terms. The genes annotated with the selected ontology terms have been used in the training part to carry out the classification task of the ML model. The output is an important set of ontologies for the two-class classification task applied to gene expression data for a given phenotype.Results: Our approach has been tested on 11 different gene expression datasets, and the results showed that GeNetOntology successfully identified important disease-related ontology terms to be used in the classification model.Discussion: GeNetOntology will assist geneticists and scientists to identify a range of disease-related genes and ontologies in transcriptomic data analysis, and it will also help doctors design diagnosis platforms and improve patient treatment plans.
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    Citation - WoS: 41
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    Ensemble Feature Selection and Classification Methods for Machine Learning-Based Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis
    (Elsevier, 2023-03) Kolukisa, Burak; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu
    Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition in which the heart is not fed sufficiently as a result of the accumulation of fatty matter. As reported by the World Health Organization, around 32% of the total deaths in the world are caused by CAD, and it is estimated that approximately 23.6 million people will die from this disease in 2030. CAD develops over time, and the diagnosis of this disease is difficult until a blockage or a heart attack occurs. In order to bypass the side effects and high costs of the current methods, researchers have proposed to diagnose CADs with computer-aided systems, which analyze some physical and biochemical values at a lower cost. In this study, for the CAD diagnosis, (i) seven different computational feature selection (FS) methods, one domain knowledge-based FS method, and different classification algorithms have been evaluated; (ii) an exhaustive ensemble FS method and a probabilistic ensemble FS method have been proposed. The proposed approach is tested on three publicly available CAD data sets using six different classification algorithms and four different variants of voting algorithms. The performance metrics have been comparatively evaluated with numerous combinations of classifiers and FS methods. The multi-layer perceptron classifier obtained satisfactory results on three data sets. Performance evaluations show that the proposed approach resulted in 91.78%, 85.55%, and 85.47% accuracy for the Z-Alizadeh Sani, Statlog, and Cleveland data sets, respectively.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
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    Effect of Interpolation on Specular Reflections in Texture-Based Automatic Colonic Polyp Detection
    (Wiley, 2020-06-26) Kacmaz, Rukiye Nur; Yilmaz, Bulent; Aydin, Zafer
    Reflections of LED light cause unwanted noise effects called specular reflection (SR) on colonoscopic images. The aim of this study was to seek answers to the following two questions. (a) How are the texture features used in automatic detection of polyps affected by the interpolation on specular reflections? (b) If they are affected does it really affect the classification performance? In order to answer these questions, we used 610 colonoscopy images, and divided each image into tiles whose sizes were 32-by-32 pixels. From these tiles, we selected the ones without any specular reflection. We added different shape and size specular reflections cropped from real images onto the reflection-free tiles. We then used the nearest neighbors, bilinear and bicubic interpolation techniques on the tiles on which SRs were added. On these tiles we extracted 116 texture features using 3 second-order approaches, and 4 first-order statistics. First, we used paired samplettest. Second, we performed automatic classification of polyps and background using random forest and k nearest neighbors (k-NN) approaches using the texture features for different combinations of specular reflections added on the tiles from the polyp or background. The results showed that depending on the size of specular reflection, interpolation can cause a significant difference between the texture features that were coming from reflection-free tiles and the same tiles on which interpolation was performed. In addition, we note that bicubic interpolation may be preferred to eliminate specular reflection when texture features are used for background and polyp discrimination.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
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    Autonomic Workload Performance Tuning in Large-Scale Data Repositories
    (Springer London Ltd, 2018-09-04) Raza, Basit; Sher, Asma; Afzal, Sana; Malik, Ahmad Kamran; Anjum, Adeel; Kumar, Yogan Jaya; Faheem, Muhammad
    The workload in large-scale data repositories involves concurrent users and contains homogenous and heterogeneous data. The large volume of data, dynamic behavior and versatility of large-scale data repositories is not easy to be managed by humans. This requires computational power for managing the load of current servers. Autonomic technology can support predicting the workload type; decision support system or online transaction processing can help servers to autonomously adapt to the workloads. The intelligent system could be designed by knowing the type of workload in advance and predict the performance of workload that could autonomically adapt the changing behavior of workload. Workload management involves effectively monitoring and controlling the workflow of queries in large-scale data repositories. This work presents a taxonomy through systematic analysis of workload management in large-scale data repositories with respect to autonomic computing (AC) including database management systems and data warehouses. The state-of-the-art practices in large-scale data repositories are reviewed with respect to AC for characterization, performance prediction and adaptation of workload. Current issues are highlighted at the end with future directions.