Biomarker Discovery and Data Visualization Tool for Ovarian Cancer Screening

With the increase in various clinical applications of medical knowledge, a large amount of bio-data have been generated. In this paper, we report on an integrated software tool developed to enable the easy analysis of such bio-data for diagnostic medical testing without the deep use of statistics-related knowledge or tools. Specifically, this system provides an analysis tool for biomarker discovery by applying data mining techniques. It also provides a tool to visualize data, thus enabling a human analyst to easily analyze data, aided by the system. The biomarker data used in this system were generated by using the Luminex equipment, but data generated by other equipment can be used, too. The main modules include marker selection, data visualization and marker evaluation, which have been developed on the basis of the MATLAP. This system is tailored to the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.