ImageDDI: Image-enhanced Molecular Motif Sequence Representation for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction

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Main Authors: He, Yuqin, Ma, Tengfei, Li, Chaoyi, Ma, Pengsen, Xiang, Hongxin, Wang, Jianmin, Liu, Yiping, Song, Bosheng, Zeng, Xiangxiang
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author He, Yuqin
Ma, Tengfei
Li, Chaoyi
Ma, Pengsen
Xiang, Hongxin
Wang, Jianmin
Liu, Yiping
Song, Bosheng
Zeng, Xiangxiang
author_facet He, Yuqin
Ma, Tengfei
Li, Chaoyi
Ma, Pengsen
Xiang, Hongxin
Wang, Jianmin
Liu, Yiping
Song, Bosheng
Zeng, Xiangxiang
contents To mitigate the potential adverse health effects of simultaneous multi-drug use, including unexpected side effects and interactions, accurately identifying and predicting drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is considered a crucial task in the field of deep learning. Although existing methods have demonstrated promising performance, they suffer from the bottleneck of limited functional motif-based representation learning, as DDIs are fundamentally caused by motif interactions rather than the overall drug structures. In this paper, we propose an Image-enhanced molecular motif sequence representation framework for \textbf{DDI} prediction, called ImageDDI, which represents a pair of drugs from both global and local structures. Specifically, ImageDDI tokenizes molecules into functional motifs. To effectively represent a drug pair, their motifs are combined into a single sequence and embedded using a transformer-based encoder, starting from the local structure representation. By leveraging the associations between drug pairs, ImageDDI further enhances the spatial representation of molecules using global molecular image information (e.g. texture, shadow, color, and planar spatial relationships). To integrate molecular visual information into functional motif sequence, ImageDDI employs Adaptive Feature Fusion, enhancing the generalization of ImageDDI by dynamically adapting the fusion process of feature representations. Experimental results on widely used datasets demonstrate that ImageDDI outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, extensive experiments show that ImageDDI achieved competitive performance in both 2D and 3D image-enhanced scenarios compared to other models.
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spellingShingle ImageDDI: Image-enhanced Molecular Motif Sequence Representation for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction
He, Yuqin
Ma, Tengfei
Li, Chaoyi
Ma, Pengsen
Xiang, Hongxin
Wang, Jianmin
Liu, Yiping
Song, Bosheng
Zeng, Xiangxiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
To mitigate the potential adverse health effects of simultaneous multi-drug use, including unexpected side effects and interactions, accurately identifying and predicting drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is considered a crucial task in the field of deep learning. Although existing methods have demonstrated promising performance, they suffer from the bottleneck of limited functional motif-based representation learning, as DDIs are fundamentally caused by motif interactions rather than the overall drug structures. In this paper, we propose an Image-enhanced molecular motif sequence representation framework for \textbf{DDI} prediction, called ImageDDI, which represents a pair of drugs from both global and local structures. Specifically, ImageDDI tokenizes molecules into functional motifs. To effectively represent a drug pair, their motifs are combined into a single sequence and embedded using a transformer-based encoder, starting from the local structure representation. By leveraging the associations between drug pairs, ImageDDI further enhances the spatial representation of molecules using global molecular image information (e.g. texture, shadow, color, and planar spatial relationships). To integrate molecular visual information into functional motif sequence, ImageDDI employs Adaptive Feature Fusion, enhancing the generalization of ImageDDI by dynamically adapting the fusion process of feature representations. Experimental results on widely used datasets demonstrate that ImageDDI outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, extensive experiments show that ImageDDI achieved competitive performance in both 2D and 3D image-enhanced scenarios compared to other models.
title ImageDDI: Image-enhanced Molecular Motif Sequence Representation for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08338