TY - GEN
T1 - Copy-number alterations for tumor progression inference
AU - Cava, Claudia
AU - Zoppis, Italo
AU - Gariboldi, Manuela
AU - Castiglioni, Isabella
AU - Mauri, Giancarlo
AU - Antoniotti, Marco
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Copy-number alterations (CNAs) represent an important component of genetic variations and play a significant role in many human diseases. Such alterations are related to certain types of cancers, including those of the pancreas, colon, and breast, among others. CNAs have been used as biomarkers for cancer prognosis in multiple studies, but few works report on the relation of CNAs with the disease progression. In this paper, we provide cases where the inference on the disease progression improves when exploiting CNA information. To this aim, a specific dissimilarity-based representation of patients is given. The employed framework outperforms a typical approach where patients are represented through a set of available attribute values. Three datasets were employed to validate the results of our analysis.
AB - Copy-number alterations (CNAs) represent an important component of genetic variations and play a significant role in many human diseases. Such alterations are related to certain types of cancers, including those of the pancreas, colon, and breast, among others. CNAs have been used as biomarkers for cancer prognosis in multiple studies, but few works report on the relation of CNAs with the disease progression. In this paper, we provide cases where the inference on the disease progression improves when exploiting CNA information. To this aim, a specific dissimilarity-based representation of patients is given. The employed framework outperforms a typical approach where patients are represented through a set of available attribute values. Three datasets were employed to validate the results of our analysis.
KW - CNAs
KW - dissimilarity representation
KW - tumor progression
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38326-7_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887293821
SN - 9783642383250
VL - 7885 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 104
EP - 109
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2013
Y2 - 29 May 2013 through 1 June 2013
ER -