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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Data Mining

Background:

  • Clustering algorithms face challenges with distance-based structures, yielding biased solutions.
  • Unsupervised quality measures (QM) for algorithm selection and parameter optimization are often misleading.
  • Existing benchmark datasets may not reflect real-world data complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the performance of 41 open-source clustering algorithms on biomedical datasets.
  • To introduce a more robust benchmarking methodology for cluster analysis.
  • To address the limitations of current quality measures in assessing clustering solutions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized benchmark and high-dimensional biomedical datasets.
  • Applied 41 open-source clustering algorithms.
  • Employed comparative analysis with mirrored density plots for detailed benchmarking.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that clustering algorithms can produce biased solutions, especially with distance-based structures.
  • Showcased the limitations of traditional partition comparison measures.
  • Highlighted the superiority of mirrored density plots over box or violin plots for comparative analysis.

Conclusions:

  • Algorithm selection and parameter optimization using current quality measures are inherently biased.
  • Predefined structures must align with clustering criteria and QM for accurate recovery.
  • The proposed benchmarking approach offers a more reliable assessment for biomedical data clustering.