TrialDura: Hierarchical Attention Transformer for Interpretable Clinical Trial Duration Prediction

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Autores principales: Yue, Ling, Li, Jonathan, Xing, Sixue, Islam, Md Zabirul, Xia, Bolun, Fu, Tianfan, Chen, Jintai
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author Yue, Ling
Li, Jonathan
Xing, Sixue
Islam, Md Zabirul
Xia, Bolun
Fu, Tianfan
Chen, Jintai
author_facet Yue, Ling
Li, Jonathan
Xing, Sixue
Islam, Md Zabirul
Xia, Bolun
Fu, Tianfan
Chen, Jintai
contents The clinical trial process, a critical phase in drug development, is essential for developing new treatments. The primary goal of interventional clinical trials is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of drug-based treatments for specific diseases. However, these trials are often lengthy, labor-intensive, and expensive. The duration of a clinical trial significantly impacts overall costs, making efficient timeline management crucial for controlling budgets and ensuring the economic feasibility of research. To address this issue, We propose TrialDura, a machine learning-based method that estimates the duration of clinical trials using multimodal data, including disease names, drug molecules, trial phases, and eligibility criteria. Then, we encode them into Bio-BERT embeddings specifically tuned for biomedical contexts to provide a deeper and more relevant semantic understanding of clinical trial data. Finally, the model's hierarchical attention mechanism connects all of the embeddings to capture their interactions and predict clinical trial duration. Our proposed model demonstrated superior performance with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.04 years and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.39 years compared to the other models, indicating more accurate clinical trial duration prediction. Publicly available code can be found at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/TrialDura-F196.
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spellingShingle TrialDura: Hierarchical Attention Transformer for Interpretable Clinical Trial Duration Prediction
Yue, Ling
Li, Jonathan
Xing, Sixue
Islam, Md Zabirul
Xia, Bolun
Fu, Tianfan
Chen, Jintai
Machine Learning
The clinical trial process, a critical phase in drug development, is essential for developing new treatments. The primary goal of interventional clinical trials is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of drug-based treatments for specific diseases. However, these trials are often lengthy, labor-intensive, and expensive. The duration of a clinical trial significantly impacts overall costs, making efficient timeline management crucial for controlling budgets and ensuring the economic feasibility of research. To address this issue, We propose TrialDura, a machine learning-based method that estimates the duration of clinical trials using multimodal data, including disease names, drug molecules, trial phases, and eligibility criteria. Then, we encode them into Bio-BERT embeddings specifically tuned for biomedical contexts to provide a deeper and more relevant semantic understanding of clinical trial data. Finally, the model's hierarchical attention mechanism connects all of the embeddings to capture their interactions and predict clinical trial duration. Our proposed model demonstrated superior performance with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.04 years and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.39 years compared to the other models, indicating more accurate clinical trial duration prediction. Publicly available code can be found at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/TrialDura-F196.
title TrialDura: Hierarchical Attention Transformer for Interpretable Clinical Trial Duration Prediction
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13235