Hyunji Kim  Jaegyoon Ahn

10.5626/JOK.2021.48.7.842

Machine Learning cancer prognosis prediction Biomarker Deep Learning

Identifying prognostic genes and using them to predict the prognosis of cancer patients can help provide them with more effective treatments. Many methods have been proposed to identify prognostic genes and predict cancer prognosis, and recent studies have focused on machine learning methods including deep learning. However, applying gene expression data to machine learning methods has the limitations of a small number of samples and a large number of genes. In this study, we additionally use a gene network to generate many random gene paths, which we used for training the model, thereby compensating for the small sample problem. We identified the prognostic genes and predicted the prognosis of patients using the gene expression data and gene networks for five cancer types and confirmed that the proposed method showed better predictive accuracy compared to other existing methods, and good performance on small sample data.