Prediction of radiosensitivity and radiocurability using a novel supervised artificial neural network.

Journal: BMC cancer
Published Date:

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Radiotherapy has been widely used to treat various cancers, but its efficacy depends on the individual involved. Traditional gene-based machine-learning models have been widely used to predict radiosensitivity. However, there is still a lack of emerging powerful models, artificial neural networks (ANN), in the practice of gene-based radiosensitivity prediction. In addition, ANN may overfit and learn biologically irrelevant features.

Authors

  • Zihang Zeng
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Maoling Luo
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Yangyi Li
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Jiali Li
    Department of Liver and Pancreatobiliary Surgery, Dongguan People's Hospital, Dongguan, Guangdong, China.
  • Zhengrong Huang
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Yuxin Zeng
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Yu Yuan
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Mengqin Wang
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
  • Yuying Liu
    Guangxi Medical University, Nanning Guangxi, 530021, P.R.China.
  • Yan Gong
    Cardio-Oncology Working Group, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
  • Conghua Xie
    Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, 169 Donghu Road, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. chxie_65@whu.edu.cn.