Prediction of prognosis and survival of patients with gastric cancer by a weighted improved random forest model: an application of machine learning in medicine.

Introduction: It is essential to predict the survival status of patients based on their prognosis. This can assist physicians in evaluating treatment decisions. Random forest is an excellent machine learning algorithm even without any modification. We propose a new random forest weighting method and...

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Publicado en:Archives of Medical Science Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 1208 - 1221
Autores principales: Cheng Xu, Jing Wang, Tianlong Zheng, Yue Cao, Fan Ye, Xu, Cheng, Wang, Jing, Zheng, Tianlong, Cao, Yue, Ye, Fan
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2022
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          Cheng Xu
          Jing Wang
          Tianlong Zheng
          Yue Cao
          Fan Ye
          Xu, Cheng
          Wang, Jing
          Zheng, Tianlong
          Cao, Yue
          Ye, Fan
        affil: College of Computer Science and Technology, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China
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      ab: Introduction: It is essential to predict the survival status of patients based on their prognosis. This can assist physicians in evaluating treatment decisions. Random forest is an excellent machine learning algorithm even without any modification. We propose a new random forest weighting method and apply it to the gastric cancer patient data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. We evaluated the generalization ability of this weighted random forest algorithm on 10 public medical datasets. Furthermore, for the same weighting mode, the difference between using out-of-bag (OOB) data and all training sets as the weighting basis is explored.Material and methods: 110 697 cases of gastric cancer patients diagnosed between 1975 and 2016 obtained from the SEER database were included in the experiment. In addition, 10 public medical datasets were used for the generalization ability evaluation of this weighted random forest algorithm.Results: Through experimental verification, on the SEER gastric cancer patient data, the weighted random forest algorithm improves the accuracy by 0.79% compared with the original random forest. In AUC, macro-averaging increased by 2.32% and micro-averaging increased by 0.51% on average. Among the 10 public datasets, the random forest weighted in accuracy has the best performance on 6 datasets, with an average increase of 1.44% in accuracy and an average increase of 1.2% in AUC.Conclusions: Compared with the original random forest, the weighted random forest model shows a significant improvement in performance, and the effect of using all training data as the weighting basis is better than using OOB data.
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