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New Python package ROOFS aids biomarker feature selection in clinical trials

Researchers have developed ROOFS, a Python package designed to assist biomedical researchers in selecting appropriate feature selection methods for biomarker discovery and clinical predictive modeling. The package benchmarks various methods on user data, providing reports on predictive performance, stability, and feature robustness. In a demonstration using data from the PIONeeR clinical trial, ROOFS identified an optimal approach combining Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-values from t-tests and logistic regression, which outperformed methods like LASSO. AI

IMPACT Improves reproducibility and translational value of clinical models by standardizing feature selection methods.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper and associated software package for feature selection in biomedical research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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New Python package ROOFS aids biomarker feature selection in clinical trials

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Anastasiia Bakhmach, Paul Dufoss\'e, Simon Charpigny, Florence Monville, Laurent Greillier, Fabrice Barl\'esi, S\'ebastien Benzekry ·

    ROOFS: RObust biOmarker Feature Selection

    arXiv:2601.05151v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Feature selection (FS) is essential for biomarker discovery and clinical predictive modeling. Over the past decades, methodological literature on FS has become rich and mature, offering a wide spectrum of algorithmic approaches.…