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Title: Búsqueda de endofenotipos de enfermedades respiratorias mediante la aplicación de técnicas de agrupamiento no supervisado
Author: García Muñoz, Álvaro
Tutor: Mosquera Mayo, José Luis
LORENZO SALAZAR, JOSÉ MIGUEL  
Others: Ventura, Carles  
Abstract: An endophenotype is a measurable biological or behavioural trait that is genetically related to a disease. Endophenotypes are considered biomarkers. Biomarkers play an important role in developing methods of diagnosis, prevention and detection of diseases. This TFM hypothesises the existence of endophenotypes that allow biomarkers to be found in respiratory diseases, specifically DPLD and severe COVID-19 treated with corticosteroids. In order to validate the hypothesis, an analysis is carried out by applying unsupervised clustering methods such as K-means and HDBSCAN, while developing a user interface capable of applying these unsupervised clustering methods. Small dense clusters of DPLD patients and many clusters of severe COVID-19 patients treated with corticosteroids have been detected. In the future, it will be necessary to further investigate and contrast the results obtained here, to continue the research by increasing the statistical power in the DPLD data and to perform a genetic analysis of the clusters found in the COVID-19 data. It is also suggested to extend the user interface to other unsupervised clustering methods, implementing deep learning techniques and topological data analysis techniques.
Keywords: clustering
topological
neuronal network
multivariate analyisis
hierarchichal clustering
endophenotypes
unsupervised
supervised
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 18-Jun-2024
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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