We introduce CADEminer, a system that mines consumer reviews on medications in order to facilitate discovery of drug side effects that may not have been identified in clinical trials. CADEminer utilises search and natural language processing techniques to (a) extract mentions of side effects, and other relevant concepts such as drug names and diseases in reviews; (b) normalise the extracted mentions to their unified representation in ontologies such as SNOMED CT and MedDRA; (c) identify relationships between extracted concepts, such as a drug caused a side effect; (d) search in authoritative lists of known drug side effects to identify whether or not the extracted side effects are new and therefore require further investigation; and finally (e) provide statistics and visualisation of the data.
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CADEminer: A System for Mining
Consumer Reports on Adverse Drug
Side Effects
Sarvnaz Karimi
Alejandro Metke-Jimenez
Anthony Nguyen
October 2015
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Dizziness
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Red, irritated eyes
Unable to move or feel face
Mental depression
May cause
[We dont know yet!]
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Medications & adverse reactions come
in one package
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Possible side effects
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Treats .
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Treats .
3. Safety signal detection
Traditional approach:
Uses formal reports from pharmaceutical
companies, healthcare professionals, or
consumers, aggregates them and then decides
whether they contain a signal.
Drawbacks:
Severe under-reporting
Difficult to detect early signals
Barriers of entry (how/where to report)
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4. Safety signal detection using social media
Sharing information through medical forums is
Public & interactive
Popular: Side effects and other experiences with drugs are
commonly discussed
Scalable: Several orders of magnitude higher than formal
reporting
Low barrier to entry
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5. CADEminer: CSIRO Adverse Drug Event
miner
Goal: A system to mine drug user reviews from medical
forums for reports of side effects in order to assist in
generating safety signals.
Challenge: Filtering the noisy text to find relevant side
effects and context where the side effect occurred for a
given drug
Unsolved problem: How to generate a safety signal from
such a low quality data
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6. Concept extraction
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Identify spans of text that mention
drugs
adverse events or side effects
diseases
symptoms
findings
Method: CRFs
Accuracy: 98% for drug names and 90% for the rest on
CADEC dataset of 1250 forum posts
Forum: Askapatient
7. Concept normalisation
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Normalise the extracted concepts to a standard form in
AMT, SNOMED CT or MedDRA.
Demerol/Pethidine/Meperidine Pethidine (AMT)
Hunger pangs Pain hunger (MedDRA)
Method: Used Ontoserver &
in-house mapping of
SNOMED CT to MedDRA
Accuracy:
92% for drugs to AMT
67% for other concepts
8. Searching for possible signals
Aggregate all the information found on each drug
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9. Aggregation and matching methods
Filtering:
Relation extraction to correctly associate a side effect to a drug
Aggregation:
Pre-processing techniques (spell checking, stemming and stopping)
Heuristic rules (e.g., charley horse muscle cramp)
Those concepts that are normalized to the same SNOMED CT/MedDRA
entries are grouped together (e.g., vomiting and throw up)
Matching:
Search in drug product information
evaluation: MRR 0.34
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