Predicting miRNA-Disease Associations via a New MeSH Headings Representation of Diseases and eXtreme Gradient Boosting

Bo Ya Ji, Zhu Hong You, Lei Wang, Leon Wong, Xiao Rui Su, Bo Wei Zhao

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Abstract

Taking into account the intrinsic high cost and time-consuming in traditional Vitro studies, a computational approach that can enable researchers to easily predict the potential miRNA-disease associations is imminently required. In this paper, we propose a computational method to predict potential associations between miRNAs and diseases via a new MeSH headings representation of diseases and eXtreme Gradient Boosting algorithm. Particularly, a novel MeSHHeading2vec method is first utilized to obtain a higher-quality MeSH heading representation of diseases, and then it is fused with miRNA functional similarity, disease semantic similarity and Gaussian interaction profile kernel similarity information to efficiently represent miRNA-disease pairs. Second, the deep auto-encoder neural network is adopted to extract the more representative feature subspace from the initial feature set. Finally, the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm is implemented for training and prediction. In the 5-fold cross-validation experiment, our method obtained average accuracy and AUC of 0.8668 and 0.9407, which performed better than many existing works.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Computing Theories and Application - 17th International Conference, ICIC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDe-Shuang Huang, Kang-Hyun Jo, Jianqiang Li, Valeriya Gribova, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages49-56
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030845315
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event17th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2021 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 12 Aug 202115 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12838 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period12/08/2115/08/21

Keywords

  • Deep auto-encoder neural network
  • eXtreme Gradient Boosting
  • MeSH headings representation
  • miRNA-disease associations
  • Multiple similarities fusion

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