Machine learning assisted biomedical diagnosis and chemical optimizations

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Abstract
This thesis focuses on applying machine learning methods on the process of biomedical diagnosis and chemical optimizations. The first part describes the combinination of ambient ionization mass spectrometry and machine learning for non-invasive biomedical diagnosis. In this design, mass spectrometry is used to collect chemical information from a biological sample; while machine learning methods are employed to give predictions based on the information. Moreover, the important chemicals in the prediction process can be pin-pointed by feature selection algorithms. Those chemical structures are further identified by tandem mass spectrometry. The second part of this thesis concerns solving chemical optimization problems with reinforcement learning. The processes of optimizing the yield of a chemical reaction and the property of a molecule are formulated as Markov decision processes, and solved by different reinforcement learning algorithms.

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Type of resource text
Form electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource
Extent 1 online resource.
Place California
Place [Stanford, California]
Publisher [Stanford University]
Copyright date 2019; ©2019
Publication date 2019; 2019
Issuance monographic
Language English

Creators/Contributors

Author Zhou, Zhenpeng
Degree supervisor Zare, Richard N
Thesis advisor Zare, Richard N
Thesis advisor Cegelski, Lynette
Thesis advisor Markland, Thomas E
Degree committee member Cegelski, Lynette
Degree committee member Markland, Thomas E
Associated with Stanford University, Department of Chemistry.

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Genre Theses
Genre Text

Bibliographic information

Statement of responsibility Zhenpeng Zhou.
Note Submitted to the Department of Chemistry.
Thesis Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019.
Location electronic resource

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Copyright
© 2019 by Zhenpeng Zhou
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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