Interdisciplinary Machine Learning in Science and Engineering ()
- Texas A&M University
- College Station, TX
- Zachry Engineering Education Complex (ZACH) 297
- Ulisses Braga-Neto, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Neural Network Prediction of Dengue Fever Severity Based on Genetic Polymorphisms
Abstract
We present a machine learning approach for prediction of dengue fever severity based solely on polymorphisms in host genes implicated in native immunity. Using gene polymorphisms provides a reproducible way to identify subjects that are susceptible to severe dengue fever, even in non-infected individuals. A neural network trained on a cohort of 122 Brazilian dengue patients and controls genotyped for 322 innate immunity single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) produced median values of accuracy greater than 86% in predicting which patients would develop severe dengue fever. At the conclusion of the talk, we will discuss how to apply deep convolutional neural networks to classification of genomic data.