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MWENA: a novel sample re-weighting-based algorithm for disease classification and data interpretation using

Shuilin Liao^1,2, Haonan Long³, Qi Zhu²

¹Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, 999078, China.

|September 30, 2025

Summary

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We developed a new algorithm, EV Meta-Weight Elastic Net Algorithm (MWENA), to effectively classify extracellular vesicle (EV) omics data, even with imbalanced sample sizes and noisy measurements. MWENA improves biomarker discovery for various diseases.

Keywords:

Classification Diseases diagnosis Extracellular vesicles Feature selection MWENA

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Area of Science:

Biomarker Discovery
Extracellular Vesicles (EVs)
Omics Data Analysis

Background:

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are crucial biomarkers for liquid biopsies due to their stability and preserved disease markers.
Analyzing EV omics data presents challenges: noisy measurements, high dimensionality, and imbalanced sample sizes.
Existing methods struggle with the complexities of classifying imbalanced EV omics data.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel algorithm for classifying imbalanced extracellular vesicle (EV) omics data.
To address challenges in EV data analysis, including high dimensionality, noise, and small sample sizes.
To enhance the identification of EV-derived biomarkers for disease diagnosis and classification.

Main Methods:

Proposed the EV Meta-Weight Elastic Net Algorithm (MWENA), using logistic regression with elastic net regularization.
Incorporated an automatic sample re-weighting function with a meta-net to adaptively learn patterns.
Validated MWENA on simulated data and diverse EV omics datasets across four diseases and three clinical scenarios.

Main Results:

MWENA effectively classifies high-dimensional, imbalanced EV omics data, outperforming other machine learning methods.
Demonstrated superior performance in identifying small class samples, achieving high sensitivity and G-means.
Biological analysis confirmed the significance of selected EV signatures as potential biomarkers.

Conclusions:

The MWENA algorithm offers a robust approach for analyzing challenging EV omics data.
This method facilitates the discovery of novel EV-derived biomarkers for improved disease understanding.
The approach represents a step forward in harnessing EV omics data for clinical applications.