Drug-drug interaction extraction via hybrid neural networks on biomedical literature.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

Adverse events caused by drug-drug interaction (DDI) not only pose a serious threat to health, but also increase additional medical care expenditure. However, despite the emergence of many excellent text mining-based DDI classification methods, achieving a balance between using simpler method and better model performance is still unsatisfactory. In this article, we present a deep learning method of stacked bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)- convolutional neural network (SGRU-CNN) model which apply stacked bidirectional GRU (BiGRU) network and convolutional neural network (CNN) on lexical information and entity position information respectively to conduct DDIs extraction task. Furthermore, SGRU-CNN model assigns the weights of each word feature to improve performance with one attentive pooling layer. On the condition that other values are not inferior to other algorithms, experimental results on the DDI Extraction 2013 corpus show that our model achieves a 1.54% improvement in recall value. And the proposed SGRU-CNN model reaches great performance (F1-score: 0.75) with the fewest features, indicating an excellent balance between avoiding redundant preprocessing task and higher accuracy in relation extraction on biomedical literature using our method.

Authors

  • Hong Wu
    Department of Liver Surgery, Liver Transplantation Division, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.
  • Yan Xing
    School of science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
  • Weihong Ge
    Department of Pharmacy, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Nanjing China.
  • Xiaoquan Liu
    School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
  • Jianjun Zou
    School of Basic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China; Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
  • Changjiang Zhou
    School of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
  • Jun Liao
    Department of Pediatric Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, No. 28, Guiyi Street, Yunyan District, Guiyang 550002, P. R. China.