Liquid Biopsy Based Bladder Cancer Diagnostic by Machine Learning
Diagnostics 2025
Ērika Bitiņa-Barlote, Dmitrijs Bļizņuks, Sanda Siliņa, Mihails Šatcs, Egils Vjaters, Vilnis Lietuvietis, Miki Nakazawa-Miklaševiča, Juris Plonis, Edvīns Miklaševičs, Zanda Daneberga, Jānis Gardovskis

Background/Objectives: The timely diagnostics of bladder cancer is still a challenge in clinical settings. The reliability of conventional testing methods does not reach desirable accuracy and sensitivity, and it has an invasive nature. The present study examines the application of machine learning to improve bladder cancer diagnostics by integrating miRNA expression levels, demographic routine laboratory test results, and clinical data. We proposed that merging these datasets would enhance diagnostic accuracy. Methods: This study combined molecular biology methods for liquid biopsy, routine clinical data, and application of machine learning approach for the acquired data analysis. We evaluated urinary exosome miRNA expression data in combination with patient test results, as well as clinical and demographic data using three machine learning models: Random Forest, SVM, and XGBoost classifiers. Results: Based solely on miRNA data, the SVM model achieved an ROC curve area of 0.75. Patient analysis’ clinical and demographic data obtained ROC curve area of 0.80. Combining both data types enhanced performance, resulting in an F1 score of 0.79 and an ROC of 0.85. The feature importance analysis identified key predictors, including erythrocytes in urine, age, and several miRNAs. Conclusions: Our findings indicate the potential of a multi-modal approach to improve the accuracy of bladder cancer diagnosis in a non-invasive manner. © 2025 by the authors.


Atslēgas vārdi
artificial intelligence; biofluids; biomarker; bladder cancer; liquid biopsy; machine learning; miRNAs; multi-modal data; urine exosomes;
DOI
10.3390/diagnostics15040492
Hipersaite
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/15/4/492

Bitiņa-Barlote, Ē., Bļizņuks, D., Siliņa, S., Šatcs, M., Vjaters, E., Lietuvietis, V., Nakazawa-Miklaševiča, M., Plonis, J., Miklaševičs, E., Daneberga, Z., Gardovskis, J. Liquid Biopsy Based Bladder Cancer Diagnostic by Machine Learning. Diagnostics, 2025, Vol. 15, No. 4, Article number 492. e-ISSN 2075-4418. Pieejams: doi:10.3390/diagnostics15040492

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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