Title
An AdaBoost-Inspired Ensemble Method for ADR Signal Detection
Abstract
Spontaneous Reporting System (SRS) is the major mechanism employed for monitoring Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR), also the main repository for detecting suspect ADR signals. Most research organizations rely on a single ADR detection method to make decision. Although some organizations such as the British MHRA and EU have used the aggregative indicator method to combine several different rules based on the rule of thumb, or like some China scholars suggested using a simple voting ensemble method, there is no research comprehensively and in-depth investigating how to synergize different methods and showing any experimental results. In this paper, we propose an ensemble of ADR signal detectors that adopts the operating principle of AdaBoost in ensemble learning. The proposed method integrates the advantages from different ADR detection methods and automatically adjust the weight of each ADR detection method to improve the overall detection performance. Experiments conducted using FAERS datasets showed that our method significantly outperforms simple voting as well as random forest ensemble.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICHI48887.2020.9374305
2020 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
SRS,Adverse Drug Reaction,ADR Signal Detection,Ensemble Learning,AdaBoost
Conference
2575-2626
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-5383-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen-Yang Lin139935.72
I Dai200.34