Progeny Clustering: A Method to Identify Biological Phenotypes
| Author(s) | Hu, Chenyue W. | |
| Author(s) | Kornblau, Steven M. | |
| Author(s) | Slater, John H. | |
| Author(s) | Qutub, Amina A. | |
| Ordered Author | Chenyue W. Hu, Steven M. Kornblau, John H. Slater & Amina A. Qutub | |
| UD Author | Slater, John H. | en_US |
| Date Accessioned | 2016-04-25T19:27:06Z | |
| Date Available | 2016-04-25T19:27:06Z | |
| Copyright Date | Copyright © | en_US |
| Publication Date | 2015-08-12 | |
| Description | Publisher's PDF. | en_US |
| Abstract | Estimating the optimal number of clusters is a major challenge in applying cluster analysis to any type of dataset, especially to biomedical datasets, which are high-dimensional and complex. Here, we introduce an improved method, Progeny Clustering, which is stability-based and exceptionally efficient in computing, to find the ideal number of clusters. The algorithm employs a novel Progeny Sampling method to reconstruct cluster identity, a co-occurrence probability matrix to assess the clustering stability, and a set of reference datasets to overcome inherent biases in the algorithm and data space. Our method was shown successful and robust when applied to two synthetic datasets (datasets of two-dimensions and ten-dimensions containing eight dimensions of pure noise), two standard biological datasets (the Iris dataset and Rat CNS dataset) and two biological datasets (a cell phenotype dataset and an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) reverse phase protein array (RPPA) dataset). Progeny Clustering outperformed some popular clustering evaluation methods in the tendimensional synthetic dataset as well as in the cell phenotype dataset, and it was the only method that successfully discovered clinically meaningful patient groupings in the AML RPPA dataset. | en_US |
| Department | University of Delaware. Department of Biomedical Engineering. | en_US |
| Citation | Hu, C. W. et al. Progeny Clustering: A Method to Identify Biological Phenotypes. Sci. Rep. 5, 12894; doi: 10.1038/srep12894 (2015). | en_US |
| DOI | 10.1038/srep12894 | en_US |
| ISSN | 2045-2322 | en_US |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17681 | |
| Language | en_US | en_US |
| Publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_US |
| dc.rights | CC BY 4.0 | en_US |
| dc.source | Scientific reports | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.nature.com/srep/ | en_US |
| Title | Progeny Clustering: A Method to Identify Biological Phenotypes | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |
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