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Record W7132902704

Evaluating Novel Biomarkers for Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis

2023· dissertation· W7132902704 on OpenAlexaff
Ardalan Mahmoodi

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2023
Typedissertation
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicOvarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOvarian cancerBiomarkerStage (stratigraphy)Multivariate analysisCancerEpithelial ovarian cancerMultivariate statistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecological cancer. Efficient diagnosis of ovarian cancer is challenging due to the limitations of current biomarkers, including CA125’s low specificity. We investigated arresten and two ovarian cancer specific glycoforms of CA125 alongside the current biomarker CA125 in plasma samples of 413 cases and 394 controls. Four biomarker concentrations were combined with age and menopausal status to make a diagnostic model based on the XGBoost machine learning algorithm. The multivariate model produced a sensitivity of 88.1% and a specificity of 93.3%, outperforming CA125 alone with a sensitivity and specificity of 87.2% and 79.0%, respectively. Focusing on the deadlier type II ovarian tumours that present in stage II and higher improved the model further, with a sensitivity of 91.1% and a specificity of 99.0%. The multivariate model showed promising results, with the possibility of further development into a point of care (POC) test for easier access.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.144
GPT teacher head0.483
Teacher spread0.339 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2023
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