Summary of A Deep Subgrouping Framework For Precision Drug Repurposing Via Emulating Clinical Trials on Real-world Patient Data, by Seungyeon Lee et al.
A Deep Subgrouping Framework for Precision Drug Repurposing via Emulating Clinical Trials on Real-world Patient Data
by Seungyeon Lee, Ruoqi Liu, Feixiong Cheng, Ping Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Applications (stat.AP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework, called STEDR, addresses limitations in traditional drug repurposing methods by integrating subgroup analysis and treatment effect estimation. By emulating multiple clinical trials on real-world patient data, STEDR identifies 14 drug candidates with beneficial effects to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in characterized subgroups. The approach outperforms existing methods in identifying repurposable candidates and characterizes clinically relevant patient subgroups associated with AD-related risk factors. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Drug repurposing is a way to find new uses for old medicines, which can be faster and cheaper than discovering new drugs from scratch. Most studies look at patient data like it’s all the same, but this might miss out on some medicines that work well for certain groups of people. The new method, called STEDR, looks at patient subgroups to find medicines that help specific groups with Alzheimer’s Disease. |
