An Iterative Locally Auto-Weighted Least Squares Method for Microarray Missing Value Estimation

IEEE Trans Nanobioscience. 2017 Jan;16(1):21-33. doi: 10.1109/TNB.2016.2636243. Epub 2016 Dec 6.

Abstract

Microarray data often contain missing values which significantly affect subsequent analysis. Existing LLSimpute-based imputation methods for dealing with missing data have been shown to be generally efficient. However, all of the LLSimpute-based methods do not consider the different importance of different neighbors of the target gene in the missing value estimation process and treat all the neighbors equally. In this paper, a locally auto-weighted least squares imputation (LAW-LSimpute) method is proposed for missing value estimation, which can automatically weight the neighboring genes based on the importance of the genes. Then, an accelerating strategy is added to the LAW-LSimpute method in order to improve the convergence. Furthermore, an iterative missing value estimation framework of LAW-LSimpute (ILAW-LSimpute) is designed. Experimental results show that the ILAW-LSimpute method is able to reduce the estimation error.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
  • Humans
  • Least-Squares Analysis
  • Lymphoma / genetics
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*