Table 1.
Summary of the main characteristics of the 20 cancer gene expression benchmark datasets analyzed in our study. The indicated number of classes is that found in the original study.
| Cancer type | Dataset | Objects | Features | Classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skin | Bittner | 38 | 110 | 2 |
| Liver | Chen | 179 | 4 | 2 |
| Lung | Golub-V1 | 72 | 93 | 2 |
| Colon | Laiho | 37 | 110 | 2 |
| Breast | West | 49 | 60 | 2 |
| Leukemia | Amstrong- | 72 | 110 | 3 |
| Bladder | Dyrskjot | 40 | 60 | 3 |
| Leukemia | Golub-V2 | 72 | 93 | 3 |
| Blood | Alizadeh-V2 | 62 | 3 | 3 |
| Brain | Liang | 37 | 20 | 3 |
| Brain | Nutt-V1 | 50 | 20 | 4 |
| Lung | Garber | 66 | 2 | 4 |
| Prostate | Lapointe-V2 | 110 | 3 | 4 |
| Endometrium | Risinger | 42 | 20 | 4 |
| Prostate | Tomlins-V2 | 92 | 20 | 4 |
| Lung | Bhattacharjee | 203 | 7 | 5 |
| Brain | Pomeroy-V2 | 42 | 69 | 5 |
| Prostate | Tomlins-V1 | 104 | 4 | 5 |
| Bone marrow | Yeoh-V2 | 248 | 20 | 6 |
| Multi-tissue | Su | 174 | 2 | 10 |