Identification of Hürthle cell cancers: solving a clinical challenge with genomic sequencing and a trio of machine learning algorithms.
Yangyang HaoQuan-Yang DuhRichard T KloosJoshua BabiarzR Mack HarrellS Thomas TraweekSu Yeon KimGrazyna FedorowiczP Sean WalshPeter M SadowJing HuangGiulia C KennedyPublished in: BMC systems biology (2019)
The accurate algorithmic depiction of this complex biological system among Hürthle subtypes results in a dramatic improvement of classification performance; specificity among Hürthle cell neoplasms increases from 11.8% with the GEC to 58.8% with the GSC, while maintaining the same sensitivity of 89%.