Communications Medicine (Jan 2023)

Serum biomarker-based early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas with ensemble learning

  • Nuno R. Nené,
  • Alexander Ney,
  • Tatiana Nazarenko,
  • Oleg Blyuss,
  • Harvey E. Johnston,
  • Harry J. Whitwell,
  • Eva Sedlak,
  • Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj,
  • Sophia Apostolidou,
  • Eithne Costello,
  • William Greenhalf,
  • Ian Jacobs,
  • Usha Menon,
  • Justin Hsuan,
  • Stephen P. Pereira,
  • Alexey Zaikin,
  • John F. Timms

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00237-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Nené et al. construct machine learning models based on serum protein biomarker data to detect pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in a nested case-control study from the UKCTOCS cohort. Their ensemble modelling approach outperforms existing combinations of biomarkers.