Title
Machine Learning-Driven Drug Discovery: Prediction Of Structure-Cytotoxicity Correlation Leads To Identification Of Potential Anti-Leukemia Compounds
Abstract
In vitro cytotoxicity screening is a crucial step of anticancer drug discovery. The application of deep learning methodology is gaining increasing attentions in processing drug screening data and studying anticancer mechanisms of chemical compounds. In this work, we explored the utilization of convolutional neural network in modeling the anticancer efficacy of small molecules. In particular, we presented a VGG19 model trained on 2D structural formulae to predict the growth-inhibitory effects of compounds against leukemia cell line CCRF-CEM, without any use of chemical descriptors. The model achieved a normalized RMSE of 15.76% on predicting growth inhibition and a Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.72 between predicted and experimental data, demonstrating a strong predictive power in this task. Furthermore, we implemented the Layer-wise Relevance Propagation technique to interpret the network and visualize the chemical groups predicted by the model that contribute to toxicity with human-readable representations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175850
42ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY: ENABLING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EMBC'20
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
2020
1557-170X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zishen Li100.34
Yun Wah Lam200.34
Qi Liu300.34
Alison Y K Lau400.34
Ho Yu Au-Yeung500.34
Rosa H M Chan618222.79