Award Date

5-1-2019

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Computer Science

Department

Computer Science

First Committee Member

Fatma Nasoz

Second Committee Member

Laxmi Gewali

Third Committee Member

Justin Zhan

Fourth Committee Member

Qing Wu

Number of Pages

50

Abstract

Osteoporosis is a prevailing bone disease, which weakens the bone and is one of the

major factors of disability, especially in elderly persons. In this thesis, we developed

various machine learning models to predict fracture risk of osteoporosis. These mod-

els were built to base their predictions on genotype and phenotype data of patients.

We performed two dierent types of analysis: fracture risk prediction (a classica-

tion model) and bone mineral density (BMD) prediction (a regression model). For

fracture risk prediction we implemented four dierent algorithms: logistic regression,

random forest, gradient boosting, and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) based on dier-

ent risk factors identied. We performed our experiments using 307 and 1103 Single

Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) with data from 5133 patients. For both 307 and

1103 SNPs the performance of MLP was the best with area under curve (AUC) of

0.970 and 0.981 respectively. Logistic regression had the worst performance among

four models with AUC of 0.816 and 0.904. For BMD prediction we implemented linear

regression, random forest, gradient boosting and MLP and as a performance metric

we plotted mean squared error (MSE) versus number of iterations for both train and

test set of data. The random forest performed the best in both cases with MSE of

0.004 and linear regression was the worst with MSE of 0.104 in the test data for both

sets of SNPs.

Keywords

1103 SNPs; Fragility fracture; Genotypes; Osteoporosis and machine learning; Prediction bmd

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

File Format

pdf

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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