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This study introduces a new method, KPCCF, for analyzing gut microbiome data to identify human diseases. KPCCF effectively handles sparse, high-dimensional data, outperforming existing methods in disease classification.

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  • Microbiome research
  • Computational biology
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Human diseases like inflammation, obesity, HIV, and diabetes are linked to gut microbiome composition.
  • Supervised classification of gut microbiota is feasible for determining disease states.
  • Sparse abundance matrices in microbiome data necessitate interpretable deep models like deep forest, but overfitting is a challenge with 'large p, small n' data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel method, Kernel Principal Components based Cascade Forest (KPCCF), for classifying human disease states using microbiome taxonomic profiles.
  • To address the limitations of traditional deep models in handling sparse, high-dimensional microbiome data.
  • To improve disease identification in human microbiota analysis through feature reduction and an enhanced ensemble forest model.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) for initial dimensionality reduction of human microbiota datasets.
  • Applied a cascade forest model to the dimension-reduced data for disease state discrimination.
  • Developed the KPCCF algorithm to represent small-scale, high-dimension microbiota datasets with sparse feature matrices.

Main Results:

  • The KPCCF algorithm effectively represents sparse feature matrices in small-scale, high-dimension microbiota datasets.
  • Comparative experiments demonstrated that KPCCF consistently outperformed state-of-the-art methods across four different datasets.
  • KPCCF showed excellent performance specifically within the microbiota field, outperforming standard deep forest models.

Conclusions:

  • The KPCCF method offers a robust solution for analyzing complex human microbiota datasets.
  • KPCA is identified as a suitable dimensionality reduction technique for microbiota data.
  • KPCCF provides a distinct advantage over standard deep forest models for disease classification in microbiome studies.