Using autoencoders as a weight initialization method on deep neural networks for disease detection.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: As of today, cancer is still one of the most prevalent and high-mortality diseases, summing more than 9 million deaths in 2018. This has motivated researchers to study the application of machine learning-based solutions for cancer detection to accelerate its diagnosis and help its prevention. Among several approaches, one is to automatically classify tumor samples through their gene expression analysis.

Authors

  • Mafalda Falcão Ferreira
    Informatics Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology, and Science, Porto, Portugal.
  • Rui Camacho
    Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal.
  • Luís F Teixeira
    Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal.