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Towards this direction, we study the generalization of the MRPV, a recently published ensemble classification algorithm, which combines multiple ultra-low dimensional random projected spaces with a voting scheme, while exposing its ability to enhance the performance of base classifiers. We empirically showed that we can design a reliable ensemble classification technique using random projected subspaces in an extremely small fixed number of dimensions, without following the restrictions of the classical random projection method. Therefore, the MPRV acquires the ability to efficiently and rapidly perform classification tasks even for data with extremely high dimensionality. Furthermore, through the experimental analysis in six scRNA-seq data, we provided evidence that the most critical advantage of MRPV is the dramatic reduction in data dimensionality that allows for the utilization of computational demanding classifiers that are considered as non-practical in real-life applications. The scalability, the simplicity, and the capabilities of our proposed framework render it as a tool-guide for single-cell RNA-seq data which are characterized by ultra-high dimensionality. MRPV is available on GitHub in MATLAB implementation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info11110502","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,28]],"date-time":"2020-10-28T11:43:06Z","timestamp":1603885386000},"page":"502","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Ensemble Classification through Random Projections for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Aristidis G.","family":"Vrahatis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, 35131 Lamia, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sotiris K.","family":"Tasoulis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, 35131 Lamia, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Spiros V.","family":"Georgakopoulos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, 35131 Lamia, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vassilis P.","family":"Plagianakos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, 35131 Lamia, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"514","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2014.2325029","article-title":"Big data deep learning: Challenges and perspectives","volume":"2","author":"Chen","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"BII-S31559","DOI":"10.4137\/BII.S31559","article-title":"Big data application in biomedical research and health care: A literature review","volume":"8","author":"Luo","year":"2016","journal-title":"Biomed. 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