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Authenticity and credibility aware detection of adverse drug events from social media.
International Journal of Medical Informatics 2018 December
OBJECTIVES: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are among the top causes of hospitalization and death. Social media is a promising open data source for the timely detection of potential ADEs. In this paper, we study the problem of detecting signals of ADEs from social media.
METHODS: Detecting ADEs whose drug and AE may be reported in different posts of a user leads to major concerns regarding the content authenticity and user credibility, which have not been addressed in previous studies. Content authenticity concerns whether a post mentions drugs or adverse events that are actually consumed or experienced by the writer. User credibility indicates the degree to which chronological evidence from a user's sequence of posts should be trusted in the ADE detection. We propose AC-SPASM, a Bayesian model for the authenticity and credibility aware detection of ADEs from social media. The model exploits the interaction between content authenticity, user credibility and ADE signal quality. In particular, we argue that the credibility of a user correlates with the user's consistency in reporting authentic content.
RESULTS: We conduct experiments on a real-world Twitter dataset containing 1.2 million posts from 13,178 users. Our benchmark set contains 22 drugs and 8089 AEs. AC-SPASM recognizes authentic posts with F1 - the harmonic mean of precision and recall of 80%, and estimates user credibility with precision@10 = 90% and NDCG@10 - a measure for top-10 ranking quality of 96%. Upon validation against known ADEs, AC-SPASM achieves F1 = 91%, outperforming state-of-the-art baseline models by 32% (p < 0.05). Also, AC-SPASM obtains precision@456 = 73% and NDCG@456 = 94% in detecting and prioritizing unknown potential ADE signals for further investigation. Furthermore, the results show that AC-SPASM is scalable to large datasets.
CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrates that taking into account the content authenticity and user credibility improves the detection of ADEs from social media. Our work generates hypotheses to reduce experts' guesswork in identifying unknown potential ADEs.
METHODS: Detecting ADEs whose drug and AE may be reported in different posts of a user leads to major concerns regarding the content authenticity and user credibility, which have not been addressed in previous studies. Content authenticity concerns whether a post mentions drugs or adverse events that are actually consumed or experienced by the writer. User credibility indicates the degree to which chronological evidence from a user's sequence of posts should be trusted in the ADE detection. We propose AC-SPASM, a Bayesian model for the authenticity and credibility aware detection of ADEs from social media. The model exploits the interaction between content authenticity, user credibility and ADE signal quality. In particular, we argue that the credibility of a user correlates with the user's consistency in reporting authentic content.
RESULTS: We conduct experiments on a real-world Twitter dataset containing 1.2 million posts from 13,178 users. Our benchmark set contains 22 drugs and 8089 AEs. AC-SPASM recognizes authentic posts with F1 - the harmonic mean of precision and recall of 80%, and estimates user credibility with precision@10 = 90% and NDCG@10 - a measure for top-10 ranking quality of 96%. Upon validation against known ADEs, AC-SPASM achieves F1 = 91%, outperforming state-of-the-art baseline models by 32% (p < 0.05). Also, AC-SPASM obtains precision@456 = 73% and NDCG@456 = 94% in detecting and prioritizing unknown potential ADE signals for further investigation. Furthermore, the results show that AC-SPASM is scalable to large datasets.
CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrates that taking into account the content authenticity and user credibility improves the detection of ADEs from social media. Our work generates hypotheses to reduce experts' guesswork in identifying unknown potential ADEs.
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