Study Flow for the Identification of a Nasal Brush-Based Classifier of Asthma By Machine Learning (IMAGE)

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Study Flow for the Identification of a Nasal Brush-Based Classifier of Asthma By Machine Learning

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Study flow for the identification of a nasal brush-based classifier of asthma by machine learning analysis of RNAseq data. One hundred and ninety subjects with mild/moderate asthma and controls without asthma were recruited for phenotyping, nasal brushing, and RNA sequencing of nasal brushings. The RNAseq data generated were then a priori split into development and test sets. The development set was used for differential expression analysis and machine learning (involving feature selection, classification, and statistical analyses of classification performance) to identify an asthma classifier that can classify asthma from no asthma as accurately as possible. The asthma classifier was then evaluated on eight test sets, including (1) the RNAseq test set of independent subjects with and without asthma, (2) two external test sets of subjects with and without asthma with nasal gene expression profiled by microarray, and (3) five external test sets of subjects with non-asthma respiratory conditions (allergic rhinitis, upper respiratory infection, cystic fibrosis, and smoking) and nasal gene expression profiled by microarray. Figure drawn by Jill Gregory, Mount Sinai Health System, licensed under CC-BY-ND.

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