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. 2020 Apr 16;21:146. doi: 10.1186/s12859-020-3465-2

Table 3.

Comparison of PathME vs conventional sNMF consensus clustering of individual omics features in terms of cophenetic correlation and silhouette index

Cancer datasets Cophenetic correlation Consensus silhouette
Disease Omics type PathME sNMF (ind. features) PathME sNMF (ind. features)

CRC

(5 clusters)

mRNA 1 1 0.99 0.87
miRNA 1 1 0.97 0
CNV 1 0.99 0.99 0.93

GBM

(4 clusters)

mRNA 1 0.99 1 1
miRNA 1 1 0.93 0.86
Methylation 1 1 1 1

LSCC

(4 clusters)

mRNA 0.92 1 0.67 1.00
miRNA 1 1 0.98 0.98
Methylation 1 0.99 1.00 0.97

BRCA

(5 clusters)

mRNA 0.98 0.99 0.88 0.94
miRNA 1 0.91 0.99 0.49
CNV 1 1 1 1