NDLI: Mining FDA drug labels using an unsupervised learning technique

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Author	Bisgin, Halil Liu, Zhichao Fang, Hong Xu, Xiaowei Tong, Weida
Abstract	The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drug labels contain a broad array of information, ranging from adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to drug efficacy, risk-benefit consideration, and more. However, the labeling language used to describe these information is free text often containing ambiguous semantic descriptions, which poses a great challenge in retrieving useful information from the labeling text in a consistent and accurate fashion for comparative analysis across drugs. Consequently, this task has largely relied on the manual reading of the full text by experts, which is time consuming and labor intensive. In this study, a novel text mining method with unsupervised learning in nature, called topic modeling, was applied to the drug labeling with a goal of discovering “topics” that group drugs with similar safety concerns and/or therapeutic uses together. A total of 794 FDA-approved drug labels were used in this study. First, the three labeling sections (i.e., Boxed Warning, Warnings and Precautions, Adverse Reactions) of each drug label were processed by the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) to convert the free text of each label to the standard ADR terms. Next, the topic modeling approach with latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) was applied to generate 100 topics, each associated with a set of drugs grouped together based on the probability analysis. Lastly, the efficacy of the topic modeling was evaluated based on known information about the therapeutic uses and safety data of drugs. The results demonstrate that drugs grouped by topics are associated with the same safety concerns and/or therapeutic uses with statistical significance (P<0.05). The identified topics have distinct context that can be directly linked to specific adverse events (e.g., liver injury or kidney injury) or therapeutic application (e.g., antiinfectives for systemic use). We were also able to identify potential adverse events that might arise from specific medications via topics. The successful application of topic modeling on the FDA drug labeling demonstrates its potential utility as a hypothesis generation means to infer hidden relationships of concepts such as, in this study, drug safety and therapeutic use in the study of biomedical documents.
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ISSN	14712105
DOI	10.1186/1471-2105-12-S10-S11
Journal	BMC Bioinformatics
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	12
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2011-10-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Bioinformatics Microarrays Computational Biology Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Algorithms Topic Modeling Latent Dirichlet Allocation Boxed Warning Latent Semantic Indexing Drug Label Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Molecular Biology Biochemistry Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics Structural Biology
Journal Impact Factor	2.9/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.6/2023

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