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Role of Big Data & Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Phenotypes and ML Cluster Analyses – Potential Topics for PhD Scholars

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Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, Phdassistance Groupwww.phdassistance.com

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In Brief

Introduction

Application of machine learning - Recent research Big data - Role in COPD analysisbf:

Conclusion

Outline

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a leading cause of death worldwide, is a heterogeneous and multisystemic condition. Growth and application of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms in Medical Research can potentially help advance this classification procedure. Scope of ML algorithms was explored to identify the heterogeneity of certain conditions. Mathematical models are being developed using genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data to predict or differentiate disease phenotypes.

In-Brief

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a leading cause of death worldwide, is a heterogeneous and multisystemic condition.

It includes diseases like asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis (Nikalaou 2020).

It is marked by persistent respiratory symptoms and restricted airflow caused by airway and/or alveolar abnormalities.

Significant exposure to harmful particles or fumes is usually the cause of these abnormalities (Corlateanu 2020).

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Introduction

To understand this condition better, physicians have classified patients into phenotypes based on symptomatic features, including symptom severity and history of exacerbations.

The growth and application of machine learning (ML) algorithms in Medical Research can potentially help advance this classification procedure (Nikalaou 2020).

This review summarizes the use of machine learning algorithms and cluster analyses in

COPD phenotypes.

Thelastdecadehasseensubstantialgrowthinthe use of Machine Learning in Medicine and Research.

The scope of ML algorithms was explored to identify the heterogeneity of certain conditions.

Mathematical models are being developed using genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data to predict or differentiate disease phenotypes (Tang 2020).

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Application of machine learning - Recent research

COPD phenotypic classification has progressed from the classic phenotypes of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma to a plethora of phenotypes that represent the disease's heterogeneity.

Over the last 10 years, new imaging modalities, high-performance systems for protein, gene, and metabolite assessment, and integrative approaches to disease classification have contributed to the identification of a variety of phenotypes (O'Brien 2020).

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Boddulari et al. conducted a Deep Learning and Machine Learning based analysis

using spirometry data to identify the structural phenotypes of COPD.

Thestudywasconductedon8980patientsandappliedtechniqueslikerandom forest and full convolutional network (FCN).

Theydemonstratedthepotentialofmachinelearningapproachestoidentify patients for targeted therapies (Bodduluri 2020).

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Inanotherstudy,researchersevaluatedthepossibleclinicalclustersinCOPD patients at two study centres in Brazil.

A total number of 301 patients were included in this study and methods like Ward and K-means were applied.

TheywereabletoidentifyfourdifferentclinicalclustersintheCOPDpopulation (Zucchi 2020).

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Network-based methods have also been used to study biomarkers of COPD.

Sex-specific gene co-expression patterns have been discovered using correlation- based network approaches.

PANDA (Passing Attributes between Networks for Data Assimilation) reported sex- specific differential targeting of several genes, with mitochondrial pathways being enriched in women (DeMeo 2021).

TheapplicationofB ig DataintheStudyofheterogenic conditions is of utmost importance.

Analysis of large amounts of data at once using computing techniques can help in better understanding of complex diseases like COPD. Genetics, other Omics (e.g., transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenetics), and imaging are all vital sources of big data in COPD study.

COPD Genetic Research has already produced a large amount of Big Data. Another important source of Big Data in COPD research is imaging, which is usually done with chest CT scans.

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Big data - Role in COPD Analysis

Network science offers methods for analyzing big data (Silverman 2020). Projects like COPD Gene (19,000 lung CT scans of 10,000 people) provide unprecedented opportunities to learn from massive medical image sets (Toews 2015).

A research undertaken in England signified the importance of B ig Data and Machine L earning in COPD.

The researchers successfully sub-classified COPD patients into five clusters based on the demography, risk of death, comorbidity and exacerbations.

They applied cluster analysis methods on large-scale electronic health record (EHR) data (Pikoula 2019).

The appropriate application of large medical datasets or big data and machine learning analysis can play a vital role in the improving management of COPD.

The adoption of these techniques can further facilitate the classification of individuals with different responses to therapy.

That can also lead to personalized therapy for patients with COPD.

To conclude, ML algorithms and big data hold the potential to change the prognosis and management of COPD. However, more elaborated research projects are needed to establish the application of these tools.

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