Performance Comparison Between Transcriptome Data and Epigenome Data in the Prediction of Preterm Birth: A Machine Learning Model Using Mother's Data.

OBJECTIVE: Preterm birth is a serious issue in the medical world that can affect the family, especially the mother, both mentally and physically. Even babies need to go through so many short- and long-term health complications and need to suffer throughout their lives. Utmost, it can lead to the los...

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Published in:International Journal of Childbirth Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 197 - 206
Main Authors: Jeyananthan, Pratheeba, G. L. D. S., Piyasamara, D. C., Sachintha
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Publishing Company, Inc. 2025
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        atl: Performance Comparison Between Transcriptome Data and Epigenome Data in the Prediction of Preterm Birth: A Machine Learning Model Using Mother's Data.
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          Jeyananthan, Pratheeba
          G. L. D. S., Piyasamara
          D. C., Sachintha
        affil: Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Northern Province, Sri Lanka
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          Mothers
          Gene Expression Profiling
          Epigenomics
          Childbirth, Premature Risk Factors
          Risk Assessment
          Machine Learning Algorithms
          Human
          Female
          Methylation
          Fathers
          Male
          Infant, Newborn
          Sequence Analysis
          Logistic Regression
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Female
          Male
      ab: OBJECTIVE: Preterm birth is a serious issue in the medical world that can affect the family, especially the mother, both mentally and physically. Even babies need to go through so many short- and long-term health complications and need to suffer throughout their lives. Utmost, it can lead to the loss of life. Early identification of preterm birth can help doctors improve the critical condition or may help their efforts to stop that premature delivery. Hence, research and studies toward the early identification of preterm delivery are very crucial. Different data, such as images, blood samples, clinical data, and omic-scale data, can be used in the identification of various diseases and other disease-related studies. Even though other data can do a reasonable job in this research, molecular data could do a better job as they carry most information related to a human. METHODS: This study compares the performance difference between transcriptome and epigenome data in the prediction of preterm birth. As it is very difficult to get these data from an unborn baby, data obtained from the mother are used. It starts with feature selection using mutual information. Twenty features are selected from each dataset and used separately with six different classification algorithms. RESULTS: Comparing the performance between models shows that transcriptome data give a better prediction accuracy using the K-nearest neighbor classification algorithm, with the accuracy value of 0.96 (±0.07). CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that transcriptome data from the mother can be used in the prediction of preterm birth.
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