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Abstract

Background: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are common and are the underlying cause of over a million serious injuries and deaths each year. The most familiar method to detect ADRs is relying on spontaneous reports. Unfortunately, the low reporting rate of spontaneous reports is a serious limitation of pharmacovigilance.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify a method to detect potential ADRs of drugs automatically using a deep neural network (DNN).

Methods: We designed a DNN model that utilizes the chemical, biological, and biomedical information of drugs to detect ADRs. This model aimed to fulfill two main purposes: identifying the potential ADRs of drugs and predicting the possible ADRs of a new drug. For improving the detection performance, we distributed representations of the target drugs in a vector space to capture the drug relationships using the word-embedding approach to process substantial biomedical literature. Moreover, we built a mapping function to address new drugs that do not appear in the dataset.

Results: Using the drug information and the ADRs reported up to 2009, we predicted the ADRs of drugs recorded up to 2012. There were 746 drugs and 232 new drugs, which were only recorded in 2012 with 1325 ADRs. The experimental results showed that the overall performance of our model with mean average precision at top-10 achieved is 0.523 and the rea under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) score achieved is 0.844 for ADR prediction on the dataset.

Conclusions: Our model is effective in identifying the potential ADRs of a drug and the possible ADRs of a new drug. Most importantly, it can detect potential ADRs irrespective of whether they have been reported in the past.

Details

Title
Detecting Potential Adverse Drug Reactions Using a Deep Neural Network Model
Author
Chi-Shiang Wang  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Pei-Ju, Lin  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ching-Lan, Cheng  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Shu-Hua, Tai  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Yea-Huei Kao Yang  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jung-Hsien Chiang  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
Section
Clinical Information and Decision Making
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Feb 2019
Publisher
Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor
e-ISSN
1438-8871
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2512774811
Copyright
© 2019. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.