Semi-supervised ensemble learning with interval type-2 fuzzy-rough sets for Parkinson’s disease prediction from multi-omics
摘要
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a disorder involving progressive degeneration of the nervous system. Its clinical signs typically become noticeable only after substantial impairment has occurred in the substantia nigra, a brain region involved in motor control. Therefore, early and accurate prediction of PD based on molecular alterations is essential for proper diagnosis and improved patient outcomes. In this context, feature-level multi-omics integration has become a useful strategy because it combines molecular information from multiple biological levels and may support a broader understanding of disease progression. This study proposes a novel technique called Semi-supervised Ensemble Learning with Interval Type-2 Fuzzy-Rough Sets (SSEnIT2FRS) for PD prediction from multi-omics data, which leverages interval type-2 fuzzy-rough sets to achieve early and accurate prediction. The type-2 fuzzy-rough set enhances the handling of uncertainty and vagueness present in real-world biological datasets, while the ensemble approach improves predictive robustness by combining the decisions of multiple base classifiers. Furthermore, the inclusion of semi-supervised learning addresses the scarcity of labeled samples. The experimental findings indicate that the proposed method outperforms nine existing methods across all evaluation metrics, achieving the highest accuracy of 98.49%, with precision 0.9820, recall 0.9865, macro