globally. This paper intends to classify public gene expression data of patients with Hepatitis
C virus-related HCC (HCV+ HCC) and chronic HCV without HCC (HCV alone) through the
XGboost approach and to identify key genes that may be responsible for HCC. Methods: The
current research is a retrospective case–control study. Public data from 17 patients with
HCV+ HCC and 35 patients with HCV-alone samples were used in this study. An XGboost …