Multivariate Biomarker Discovery

Darius M. Dziuda, Ph.D., is Professor of Data Science and Bioinformatics at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), with both academic and biotechnology industry experience. His research focuses on multivariate biomarker discovery for medical diagnosis, prognosis, and personalized medicine. Dr. Dziuda is also designing and teaching courses for two specializations of CCSU's graduate data science program: Bioinformatics and Advanced Data Science Methods.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Framework for Multivariate Biomarker Discovery: 1. Introduction; 2. Multivariate analytics based on high-dimensional data: concepts and misconceptions; 3. Predictive modeling for biomarker discovery; 4. Evaluation of predictive models; 5. Multivariate feature selection; Part II. Regression Methods for Estimation: 6. Basic regression methods; 7. Regularized regression methods; 8. Regression with random forests; 9. Support vector regression; Part III. Classification Methods: 10. Classification with random forests; 11. Classification with support vector machines; 12. Discriminant analysis; 13. Neural networks and deep learning; Part IV. Biomarker Discovery via Multistage Signal Enhancement and Identification of Essential Patterns: 14. Multistage signal enhancement; 15. Essential patterns, essential variables, and interpretable biomarkers; Part V. Multivariate Biomarker Discovery Studies: 16. Biomarker discovery study 1: searching for essential gene expression patterns and multivariate biomarkers that are common for multiple types of cancer; 17. Biomarker discovery study 2: multivariate biomarkers for liver cancer; References; Index.