Human Disease Prediction from Microbiome Data by Multiple Feature Fusion and Deep Learning

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Original languageEnglish
Article number104081
Journal / PublicationiScience
Volume25
Issue number4
Online published16 Mar 2022
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2022

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Abstract

Human disease prediction from microbiome data has broad implications in Metagenomics. It is rare for the existing methods to consider abundance profiles from both known and unknown microbial organisms, or capture the taxonomic relationships among microbial taxa, leading to significant information loss. On the other hand, deep learning has shown unprecedented advantages in classification tasks for its feature-learning ability. However, it encounters the opposite situation in metagenome-based disease prediction since high-dimensional low-sample-size metagenomic datasets can lead to severe overfitting, and the black-box model fails to provide biological explanations. To circumvent the related problems, we developed MetaDR, a comprehensive machine learning-based framework that integrates various information and deep learning to predict human diseases. Experimental results indicate that MetaDR achieves competitive prediction performance with a reduction in running time, and effectively discovers the informative features with biological insights.

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  • Biological sciences, Physiology, Systems biology

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