A Computational Selection of Metabolite Biomarkers Using Emerging Pattern Mining: A Case Study in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

The biomarker development in metabolomics aims at discriminating diseased from normal subjects and at creating a predictive model that can be used to diagnose new subjects. From a case study on human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we studied for the first time the potential usefulness of the emerging patterns (EPs) that come from the data mining domain. When applied to a metabolomics data set labeled with two classes (e.