Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance

Explainable AI (XAI) is a methodology that complements the black box of artificial intelligence, and its necessity has recently been highlighted in various fields. The purpose of this research is to identify studies in the field of pharmacovigilance using XAI. Though there have been many previous at...

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Main Authors: Seunghee Lee, Seonyoung Kim, Jieun Lee, Jong-Yeup Kim, Mi-Hwa Song, Suehyun Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10113317/
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author Seunghee Lee
Seonyoung Kim
Jieun Lee
Jong-Yeup Kim
Mi-Hwa Song
Suehyun Lee
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Seonyoung Kim
Jieun Lee
Jong-Yeup Kim
Mi-Hwa Song
Suehyun Lee
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description Explainable AI (XAI) is a methodology that complements the black box of artificial intelligence, and its necessity has recently been highlighted in various fields. The purpose of this research is to identify studies in the field of pharmacovigilance using XAI. Though there have been many previous attempts to select papers, with a total of 781 papers being confirmed, only 25 of them manually met the selection criteria. This study presents an intuitive review of the potential of XAI technologies in the field of pharmacovigilance. In the included studies, clinical data, registry data, and knowledge data were used to investigate drug treatment, side effects, and interaction studies based on tree models, neural network models, and graph models. Finally, key challenges for several research issues for the use of XAI in pharmacovigilance were identified. Although artificial intelligence (AI) is actively used in drug surveillance and patient safety, gathering adverse drug reaction information, extracting drug-drug interactions, and predicting effects, XAI is not normally utilized. Therefore, the potential challenges involved in its use alongside future prospects should be continuously discussed.
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spelling doaj.art-6a7e2b809b2d4b449212f8b9fc74e5632023-06-01T23:00:36ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111508305084010.1109/ACCESS.2023.327163510113317Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in PharmacovigilanceSeunghee Lee0Seonyoung Kim1Jieun Lee2Jong-Yeup Kim3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1230-9307Mi-Hwa Song4Suehyun Lee5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2273-0915Healthcare Data Science Center, Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaHealthcare Data Science Center, Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaHealthcare Data Science Center, Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaHealthcare Data Science Center, Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaSchool of Information and Communication Sciences, Semyung University, Jecheon, Republic of KoreaCollege of IT Convergence, Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of KoreaExplainable AI (XAI) is a methodology that complements the black box of artificial intelligence, and its necessity has recently been highlighted in various fields. The purpose of this research is to identify studies in the field of pharmacovigilance using XAI. Though there have been many previous attempts to select papers, with a total of 781 papers being confirmed, only 25 of them manually met the selection criteria. This study presents an intuitive review of the potential of XAI technologies in the field of pharmacovigilance. In the included studies, clinical data, registry data, and knowledge data were used to investigate drug treatment, side effects, and interaction studies based on tree models, neural network models, and graph models. Finally, key challenges for several research issues for the use of XAI in pharmacovigilance were identified. Although artificial intelligence (AI) is actively used in drug surveillance and patient safety, gathering adverse drug reaction information, extracting drug-drug interactions, and predicting effects, XAI is not normally utilized. Therefore, the potential challenges involved in its use alongside future prospects should be continuously discussed.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10113317/Machine learningpharmacovigilanceexplainable artificial intelligence
spellingShingle Seunghee Lee
Seonyoung Kim
Jieun Lee
Jong-Yeup Kim
Mi-Hwa Song
Suehyun Lee
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance
IEEE Access
Machine learning
pharmacovigilance
explainable artificial intelligence
title Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance
title_full Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance
title_fullStr Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance
title_full_unstemmed Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance
title_short Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Patient Safety: A Review of Application in Pharmacovigilance
title_sort explainable artificial intelligence for patient safety a review of application in pharmacovigilance
topic Machine learning
pharmacovigilance
explainable artificial intelligence
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10113317/
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