Disease causality extraction based on lexical semantics and document-clause frequency from biomedical literature

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Research

Hyunjung Shin¹  Dong-gi Lee¹ 

[1] Department of Industrial Engineering, Ajou University, 206 Worldcup-ro, 16499, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea;

关键词: Disease causality;    Text mining;    Lexical semantics;    Document-clause frequency;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12911-017-0448-y

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundRecently, research on human disease network has succeeded and has become an aid in figuring out the relationship between various diseases. In most disease networks, however, the relationship between diseases has been simply represented as an association. This representation results in the difficulty of identifying prior diseases and their influence on posterior diseases. In this paper, we propose a causal disease network that implements disease causality through text mining on biomedical literature.MethodsTo identify the causality between diseases, the proposed method includes two schemes: the first is the lexicon-based causality term strength, which provides the causal strength on a variety of causality terms based on lexicon analysis. The second is the frequency-based causality strength, which determines the direction and strength of causality based on document and clause frequencies in the literature.ResultsWe applied the proposed method to 6,617,833 PubMed literature, and chose 195 diseases to construct a causal disease network. From all possible pairs of disease nodes in the network, 1011 causal pairs of 149 diseases were extracted. The resulting network was compared with that of a previous study. In terms of both coverage and quality, the proposed method showed outperforming results; it determined 2.7 times more causalities and showed higher correlation with associated diseases than the existing method.ConclusionsThis research has novelty in which the proposed method circumvents the limitations of time and cost in applying all possible causalities in biological experiments and it is a more advanced text mining technique by defining the concepts of causality term strength.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2017

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