Explainable multimodal machine learning model for classifying pregnancy drug safety.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Teratogenic drugs can cause severe fetal malformation and therefore have critical impact on the health of the fetus, yet the teratogenic risks are unknown for most approved drugs. This article proposes an explainable machine learning model for classifying pregnancy drug safety based on multimodal data and suggests an orthogonal ensemble for modeling multimodal data. To train the proposed model, we created a set of labeled drugs by processing over 100 000 textual responses collected by a large teratology information service. Structured textual information is incorporated into the model by applying clustering analysis to textual features.

Authors

  • Guy Shtar
    Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  • Lior Rokach
  • Bracha Shapira
    Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  • Elkana Kohn
    Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Drug Consultation Center, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), Zerifin, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Matitiahu Berkovitch
    Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Drug Consultation Center, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), Zerifin, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Maya Berlin
    Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Drug Consultation Center, Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), Zerifin, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.