Table 1.
Characteristics of the microarray dataset
| Disease | Size | Patients | Cell lines | Cancer | Non-cancer | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leukemias | 4283 | 3452 | 831 | 2336 | 1947 | 0.55 |
| Bone marrow cancer | 3525 | 3374 | 151 | 3185 | 340 | 0.90 |
| Breast cancer | 2171 | 1366 | 805 | 1863 | 308 | 0.86 |
| Kidney cancer | 657 | 423 | 234 | 400 | 257 | 0.61 |
| Liver cancer | 727 | 312 | 415 | 601 | 126 | 0.82 |
| Lung cancer | 1415 | 749 | 666 | 818 | 597 | 0.58 |
| Skin cancer | 835 | 554 | 281 | 454 | 381 | 0.54 |
| Brain cancer | 869 | 468 | 401 | 819 | 50 | 0.94 |
| Colon cancer | 1239 | 875 | 364 | 1112 | 127 | 0.90 |
| Ovary cancer | 573 | 427 | 146 | 533 | 40 | 0.93 |
| Prostate cancer | 415 | 182 | 233 | 350 | 65 | 0.84 |
| Total | 16,709 | 12,182 | 4527 | 12,471 | 4238 | 0.75 |
The columns represent respectively the type of tissues (Disease), the numbers of samples (Size), patient samples (Patients), cell line samples (Cell lines), cancer samples (Cancer), non-cancer samples (Non-cancer) and the proportion of the majority class (Prior)