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Entropy-based consensus clustering for patient stratification.

Hongfu Liu1, Rui Zhao2,3, Hongsheng Fang2,4

  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|April 4, 2017
PubMed
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Entropy-based Consensus Clustering (ECC) offers superior patient stratification by integrating diverse molecular data and handling noise. This data-driven approach improves precision medicine by overcoming limitations of existing methods for disease subtyping.

Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics

Background:

  • Patient stratification is key for precision medicine in complex diseases.
  • High-throughput molecular data offers opportunities but faces challenges like noise and heterogeneity.
  • Existing clustering methods have limitations in interpretability and data integration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel Entropy-based Consensus Clustering (ECC) method for robust patient stratification.
  • To overcome limitations of existing methods, including noise, heterogeneity, and poor interpretability.
  • To enable effective integration of multiple molecular data types and handle missing data.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an entropy-based utility function to fuse multiple data partitions into a consensus clustering.

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  • Mapped the utility maximization problem to the K-means clustering problem for efficient computation.
  • Implemented ECC with linear time and space complexity, capable of handling missing values without imputation.

    • Main Results:

    • ECC demonstrated superior performance compared to existing clustering methods on synthetic and real-world datasets.
    • Applied ECC to 35 cancer gene expression datasets and 13 cancer types with four molecular data types.
    • Achieved clinically relevant patient stratification, showcasing the method's power and effectiveness.

    Conclusions:

    • ECC provides a powerful and efficient solution for patient stratification using high-throughput molecular data.
    • The method's ability to integrate multi-omics data and handle missing values enhances its clinical applicability.
    • ECC represents a significant advancement in data-driven approaches for personalized medicine.