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Heterogeneity Aware Random Forest for Drug Sensitivity Prediction
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Rahman R
; Matlock K
; Ghosh S
; Pal R
Sci Rep
2017[Sep]; 7
(1
): 11347
PMID28900181
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Samples collected in pharmacogenomics databases typically belong to various
cancer types. For designing a drug sensitivity predictive model from such a
database, a natural question arises whether a model trained on diverse
inter-tumor heterogeneous samples will perform similar to a predictive model that
takes into consideration the heterogeneity of the samples in model training and
prediction. We explore this hypothesis and observe that ensemble model
predictions obtained when cancer type is known out-perform predictions when that
information is withheld even when the samples sizes for the former is
considerably lower than the combined sample size. To incorporate the
heterogeneity idea in the commonly used ensemble based predictive model of Random
Forests, we propose Heterogeneity Aware Random Forests (HARF) that assigns
weights to the trees based on the category of the sample. We treat heterogeneity
as a latent class allocation problem and present a covariate free class
allocation approach based on the distribution of leaf nodes of the model
ensemble. Applications on CCLE and GDSC databases show that HARF outperforms
traditional Random Forest when the average drug responses of cancer types are
different.