A Review of Feature Selection Methods for Machine Learning-Based Disease Risk Prediction

By Nicholas Pudjihartono, Tayaza Fadason, Andreas W. Kempa-Liehr, Justin M. O'Sullivan. Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2022

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Machine learning has shown utility in detecting patterns within large, unstructured, and complex datasets. One of the promising applications of machine learning is in precision medicine, where disease risk is predicted using patient genetic data. However, creating an accurate prediction model based on genotype data remains challenging due to the so-called “curse of dimensionality” (i.e., extensively larger number of features compared to the number of samples). Therefore, the generalizability of machine learning models benefits from feature selection, which aims to extract only the most “informative” features and remove noisy “non-informative,” irrelevant and redundant features. In this article, we provide a general overview of the different feature selection methods, their advantages, disadvantages, and use cases, focusing on the detection of relevant features (i.e., SNPs) for disease risk prediction.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Health Information Management, Molecular Biology

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