Deciphering Diagnostic Biomarkers and Characteristics in Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Through Genetic Profiling
摘要
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), comprising ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), presents significant diagnostic challenges. To address this, we developed and applied a multi-model machine learning (ML) pipeline integrating LASSO regression, Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) neural networks, and Support Vector Machine Recursive Feature Elimination (SVM-RFE) to gene expression data sourced from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. Our comprehensive computational workflow involved rigorous data preprocessing, identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs), sophisticated feature selection, and the development of predictive classification models. This ML-driven analysis identified key diagnostic gene biomarkers: DPP10, LCN2, S100A8, and S100P. Predictive models based on DPP10 and LCN2 demonstrated exceptional diagnostic performance, achieving area under the curve (AUC) values exceeding 0.94. S100A8 and S100P also exhibited significant diagnostic potential. These results underscore the efficacy of integrated ML approaches in extracting robust diagnostic signatures from complex genomic data. The identified biomarkers and the computational strategy provide a foundation for developing more accurate, data-driven diagnostic tools for IBD.