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    The Effect of Different Classifiers on Recursive Cluster Elimination in the Analysis of Transcriptomic Data
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023-10-11) Bulut, Nurten; Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Qaqish, Bahjat F.; Yousef, Malik
    Gene expression data with limited sample size and a large number of genes are frequently encountered in genetic studies. In such high-dimensional data, identification of genes that distinguish between disease states is a challenging task. Feature selection (FS) is a useful approach in dealing with high dimensionality. Support Vector Machines Recursive Cluster Elimination (SVM-RCE) is a technique for FS in high-dimensional data. The SVM-RCE approach has been utilized for identification of clusters of genes whose expression levels correlate with pathological state. A key step in SVM-RCE is the use of an SVM classifier to assign an area under the curve (AUC) score to each gene cluster based on its ability to predict class labels. In this study, we investigate the use of alternative classifiers in the cluster-scoring step. Specifically, we compare Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, XgBoost, Naive Bayes, and linear logistic regression. In addition to AUC score performance evaluation, the algorithms are compared in terms of the number of selected genes at different levels of clustering and in terms of the running time. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Prediction of Colorectal Cancer Based on Taxonomic Levels of Microorganisms and Discovery of Taxonomic Biomarkers Using the Grouping-Scoring (G-S-M) Approach
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2025-03) Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Temiz, Mustafa; Canakcimaksutoglu, Beyza; Yousef, Malik
    Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent forms of cancer globally. The human gut microbiome plays an important role in the development of CRC and serves as a biomarker for early detection and treatment. This research effort focuses on the identification of potential taxonomic biomarkers of CRC using a grouping-based feature selection method. Additionally, this study investigates the effect of incorporating biological domain knowledge into the feature selection process while identifying CRC-associated microorganisms. Conventional feature selection techniques often fail to leverage existing biological knowledge during metagenomic data analysis. To address this gap, we propose taxonomy-based Grouping Scoring Modeling (G-S-M) method that integrates biological domain knowledge into feature grouping and selection. In this study, using metagenomic data related to CRC, classification is performed at three taxonomic levels (genus, family and order). The MetaPhlAn tool is employed to determine the relative abundance values of species in each sample. Comparative performance analyses involve six feature selection methods and four classification algorithms. When experimented on two CRC associated metagenomics datasets, the highest performance metric, yielding an AUC of 0.90, is observed at the genus taxonomic level. At this level, 7 out of top 10 groups (Parvimonas, Peptostreptococcus, Fusobacterium, Gemella, Streptococcus, Porphyromonas and Solobacterium) were commonly identified for both datasets. Moreover, the identified microorganisms at genus, family, and order levels are thoroughly discussed via refering to CRC-related metagenomic literature. This study not only contributes to our understanding of CRC development, but also highlights the applicability of taxonomy-based G-S-M method in tackling various diseases. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Metabolomics Data Analysis to Discover Chronic Granulomatous Disease-Associated Biomarkers Utilizing G-S-M Machine Learning Model via Grouping Metabolites According to Ion Type
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024-10-16) Ersöz, Nur Sebnem; Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Yousef, Malik
    Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is a rare, inherited immunodeficiency disorder characterized by white blood cells unable to effectively kill certain bacteria and fungi. This defect results in the formation of clusters of immune cells called granulomas that form at sites of infection or inflammation. Therefore, identification of disease-related biomarkers is a critical step in advancing precision medicine and improving diagnostic accuracy. In this study, we applied a G-S-M machine learning approach to metabolomics data to uncover CGD-Associated biomarkers. We obtained a metabolomics dataset from Gene Expression Omnibus with GSE220260 accession number. Data includes 85 samples (16 healthy controls and 69 CGD samples) with comprehensive metabolic profiles obtained using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. Dataset includes metabolite names with their ion type and formula. In order to identify CGD related metabolites and their ion types, G-S-M was used as a grouping function when performing machine learning oriented metabolomics data analysis. We have performed the G-S-M approach by grouping metabolites according to their ion type. In the training part of the G-S-M approach, metabolites annotated with selected ion types have been utilized to perform a two-class classification task which generates an important set of ion type output. We also compared the performance results of the G-S-M machine learning model with traditional feature selection methods; XGB, SKB, IG, FCBF, MRMR, CMIM with random forest classifier. 100 times Monte-Carlo Cross Validation was used in our experiments. It was observed that G-S-M, XGB, SKB and FCBF methods similarly provided the best performances. In this study, besides its performance, G-S-M method used groups based on ion types unlike TFS, and then identified relevant Chronic Granulomatous Disease-associated metabolites. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Identifying Taxonomic Biomarkers of Colorectal Cancer in Human Intestinal Microbiota Using Multiple Feature Selection Methods
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022-09-07) Jabeer, Amhar; Kocak, Aysegul; Akkaş, Huseyin; Yenisert, Ferhan; Nalbantoĝlu, Özkan Ufuk; Yousef, Malik; Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Bakir Gungor, Burcu
    A variety of bacterial species called gut microbiota work together to maintain a steady intestinal environment. The gastrointestinal tract contains tremendous amount of different species including archaea, bacteria, fungi, and viruses. While these organisms are crucial immune system stabilizers, the dysbiosis of the intestinal flora has been related to gastrointestinal disorders including Colorectal cancer (CRC), intestinal cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. In the last decade, next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods have accelerated the identification of human gut flora. CRC is a deathly condition that has been on the rise in the last century, affecting half a million people each year. Since early CRC diagnosis is critical for an effective treatment, there is an immediate requirement for a classification system that can expedite CRC diagnosis. In this study, via analyzing the available metagenomics data on CRC, we aim to facilitate the CRC diagnosis via finding biomarkers linked with CRC, and via building a classification model. We have obtained the metagenomic sequencing data of the healthy individuals and CRC patients from a metagenome-wide association analysis and we have classified this data according to the disease stages. Conditional Mutual Information Maximization (CMIM), Fast Correlation Based Filter (FCBF), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), min redundancy max relevance (mRMR), Information Gain (IG) and Select K Best (SKB) feature selection algorithms were utilized to cope with the complexity of the features. We observed that the SKB, IG, and XGBoost techniques made significant contributions to decrease the microbiota in use for CRC diagnosis, thereby reducing cost and time. We realized that our Random Forest classifier outperformed Adaboost, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Logitboost and stacking ensemble classifiers in terms of CRC classification performance. Our results reiterated some known and some potential microbiome associated mechanisms in CRC, which could aid the design of new diagnostics based on the microbiome. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Evaluation of Classification Algorithms, Linear Discriminant Analysis and a New Hybrid Feature Selection Methodology for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018-12) Kolukisa, Burak; Hacilar, Hilal; Göy, Gökhan; Kus, Mustafa; Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Aral, Atilla; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı
    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 31% of the world's total deaths in 2016 (17.9 million) was due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD). With the development of information technologies, it has become possible to predict whether people have heart diseases or not by checking certain physical and biochemical values at a lower cost. In this study, we have evalated a set of different classification algorithms, linear discriminant analysis and proposed a new hybrid feature selection methodology for the diagnosis of coronary heart diseases (CHD). Throughout this research effort, using three publicly available Heart Disease diagnosis datasets (UCI Machine Learning Repository), we have conducted comparative performance evaluations in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-measure, AUC and running time. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Enhancing Intrusion Detection in Electric Networks Using Physics-Informed Random Forest
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024-10-16) Bozdal, Mehmet; Savasci, Alper
    The increasing complexity of electric power networks has heightened their vulnerability to cyber-attacks, challenging traditional Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) that rely on manually crafted rules. This paper introduces a novel approach that integrates physics-informed features and feature selection into a Random Forest (RF) model to enhance IDS performance. By deriving features such as complex power and impedance from fundamental electrical principles and applying SelectKBest for optimal feature selection, our method not only improves detection accuracy but also enhances efficiency by using fewer than half the features. Specifically, the feature-enriched RF model utilizing 55 features achieves an accuracy of 0.9667 and an F1-score of 0.9664, compared to 0.9576 and 0.9570 for the baseline RF model. This approach demonstrates the effectiveness of advanced feature engineering and selection techniques for improving the security and reliability of power network monitoring systems. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Effect of Recursive Cluster Elimination With Different Clustering Algorithms Applied to Gene Expression Data
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023-10-11) Kuzudisli, Cihan; Bakir-Güngör, Burcu; Qaqish, Bahjat F.; Yousef, Malik
    Feature selection (FS) is an effective tool in dealing with high dimensionality and reducing computational cost. Support Vector Machines-Recursive Cluster Elimination (SVM-RCE) is one of several algorithms that have been developed for FS in high dimensional data. SVM-RCE involves a clustering step which originally is k-means. Using various performance metrics, three alternative algorithms are evaluated in this context; k-medoids, Hierarchical Clustering (HC), and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). Comparisons will be carried out on five publicly available gene expression datasets. The results show that k-means in SVM-RCE obtains higher performance than other tested algorithms in terms of classification performance. Additionally, HC shows a similar performance to k-means. Our findings show superiority of using k-means. This study can contribute to the development of SVM-RCE with different variations, leading to decrease in the number of selected genes, and an increase in prediction performance. © 2023 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.