Unsupervised analysis of classical biomedical markers: robustness and medical relevance of patient clustering using bioinformatics tools.

MOTIVATION: It has been proposed that clustering clinical markers, such as blood test results, can be used to stratify patients. However, the robustness of clusters formed with this approach to data pre-processing and clustering algorithm choices has not been evaluated, nor has clustering reproducib...

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Main Authors: Michal Markovich Gordon, Asher M Moser, Eitan Rubin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3293863?pdf=render