MetaResNet: Enhancing Microbiome-Based Disease Classification through Colormap Optimization and Imbalance Handling
Awais Qureshi, Abdul Wahid, Shams Qazi, Hasan Ali Khattak, Syed Fawad Hussain
This paper develops MetaResNet, a CNN for microbiome disease classification, showing that colormap choice and SMOTE improve performance, especially for imbalanced datasets.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics