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Data Integration Challenges for Machine Learning in Precision Medicine

Journal

FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.784455

Keywords

precision medicine; machine learning; data integration; meta-data mining; computational intelligence

Funding

  1. CONACYT [285544/2016, 2115]
  2. National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Mexico)
  3. National Laboratory of Complexity Sciences [232647/2014 CONACYT]
  4. Marcos Moshinsky Fellowship in the Physical Sciences

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The main goal of Precision Medicine is to integrate databases on disease origins into analytic frameworks for personalized diagnostics and therapeutics. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to build analytical models for predicting individual health conditions. Challenges in data management, confidentiality, and bioethics need to be addressed in order for computational intelligence to be successfully applied to medicine.
A main goal of Precision Medicine is that of incorporating and integrating the vast corpora on different databases about the molecular and environmental origins of disease, into analytic frameworks, allowing the development of individualized, context-dependent diagnostics, and therapeutic approaches. In this regard, artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches can be used to build analytical models of complex disease aimed at prediction of personalized health conditions and outcomes. Such models must handle the wide heterogeneity of individuals in both their genetic predisposition and their social and environmental determinants. Computational approaches to medicine need to be able to efficiently manage, visualize and integrate, large datasets combining structure, and unstructured formats. This needs to be done while constrained by different levels of confidentiality, ideally doing so within a unified analytical architecture. Efficient data integration and management is key to the successful application of computational intelligence approaches to medicine. A number of challenges arise in the design of successful designs to medical data analytics under currently demanding conditions of performance in personalized medicine, while also subject to time, computational power, and bioethical constraints. Here, we will review some of these constraints and discuss possible avenues to overcome current challenges.

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