Project: mRNA Data Analysis for Cancer Diagnosis

This research project will analyse mRNA data measured in tumour cells of prostate cancer patients.

The project aims to identify the set of mRNAs that are most relevant to the metastasis of prostate cancer, using Machine Learning and other data analysis methods. The project is in collaboration with the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. This is an interdisciplinary research project. The student will focus on data analysis. Prior knowledge on mRNA or Cancer is not mandatory.

Requirements:

BSc/MEng/MSc student in the Department of Computer Science.
Good knowledge and skills in machine learning and data science. Knowledge in network science is also useful.
Good skills in programming, such as Python.

More information:

For more information, please read the following theses by recent students.

MEng-CS Thesis (2021) Title: Genetic Analysis of Prostate Cancer with Computer Science Methods
MSc-DSML Thesis (2021) Title: Prediction of Metastatic Sites of Prostate Cancer Based on Multi-classifier and Binary Classifier Per Cancer
MSc-DSML Thesis (2023) Title: Machine Learning Approach for Tumour Cell Identification and Patient Detection with Single Cell RNA Data

Contact:

Please contact Shi Zhou <s.zhou (at) ucl.ac.uk> for more information.