Feature Selection in Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions from the Health Improvement Network (THIN) Database

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Yihui Liu 1,* Uwe Aickelin 2

1. School of Information Science, Qilu University of Technology, China

2. Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2015.03.10

Received: 23 May 2014 / Revised: 4 Oct. 2014 / Accepted: 29 Nov. 2014 / Published: 8 Feb. 2015

Index Terms

Adverse Drug Reactions, Feature Matrix, Feature Selection, Atorvastatin, Alendronate, Metoclopramide

Abstract

Adverse drug reaction (ADR) is widely concerned for public health issue. ADRs are one of most common causes to withdraw some drugs from market. Prescription event monitoring (PEM) is an important approach to detect the adverse drug reactions. The main problem to deal with this method is how to automatically extract the medical events or side effects from high-throughput medical events, which are collected from day to day clinical practice. In this study we propose a novel concept of feature matrix to detect the ADRs. Feature matrix, which is extracted from big medical data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database, is created to characterize the medical events for the patients who take drugs. Feature matrix builds the foundation for the irregular and big medical data. Then feature selection methods are performed on feature matrix to detect the significant features. Finally the ADRs can be located based on the significant features. The experiments are carried out on three drugs: Atorvastatin, Alendronate, and Metoclopramide. Major side effects for each drug are detected and better performance is achieved compared to other computerized methods. The detected ADRs are based on computerized methods, further investigation is needed.

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Yihui Liu, Uwe Aickelin, "Feature Selection in Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions from the Health Improvement Network (THIN) Database", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.7, no.3, pp.68-85, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2015.03.10

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