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A new feature selection modality termed Stacked Feature Ranking (SFR) was developed to identify potential liver disease marker candidates in breath gas samples, relying on the combination of different entropy- and correlation-based feature ranking methods including statistical hypothesis testing using a two-level architecture with a suggestion and a decision layer. We benchmarked SFR against four single feature selection methods, a wrapper and a recently described ensemble method, indicating a significantly higher discriminatory ability of up to 10\u201315% for the SFR selected gas compounds expressed by the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.85\u20130.95. Using this approach, we were able to identify unexpected breath gas marker candidates in liver disease of high predictive value. A literature study further supports top-ranked markers to be associated with liver disease. We propose SFR as a powerful tool for biomarker search in breath gas and other biological samples using mass spectrometry.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: The algorithm SFR and IMR-MS datasets are available under http:\/\/biomed.umit.at\/page.cfm?pageid=526<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0michalel.netzer@umit.at; christian.baumgartner@umit.at<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp093","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,2,18]],"date-time":"2009-02-18T03:25:13Z","timestamp":1234927513000},"page":"941-947","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":64,"title":["A new ensemble-based algorithm for identifying breath gas marker candidates in liver disease using ion molecule reaction mass spectrometry"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"M.","family":"Netzer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Research Group for Clinical Bioinformatics, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University for Health 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