Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 834, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154849
Keywords
Exposure modeling; Chemical function; Nanomaterials; Arti ficial intelligence; Cheminformatics; Environmental exposure; Consumer product safety; Nanotechnology
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Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DGE-2022040]
- EPA [EF-0830093, DBI-1266252]
- EPA under NSF
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This study evaluated the utility of machine learning strategies for predicting weight fractions in products with limited chemical constituent data. The findings suggest that functional use categories alongside chemical property data can improve predictive performance, leading to stratifying material-product observations into order of magnitude weight fractions with moderate success.
their consequent risk, we need to know their concentrations in products, or chemical weight fractions. Unfortunately, manufacturers rarely report comprehensive weight fraction data on product labels. The goal of this study was to evaluate the utility of machine learning strategies for predicting weight fractions when chemical constituent data are limited. A data-poor framework was developed and tested using a small dataset on consumer products containing engineered nanomaterials to represent emerging substances. A second, more traditional framework was applied to a data-rich product dataset comprised of bulk-scale organic chemicals for comparison purposes. Feature variables included chemical properties, functional use categories (e.g., antimicrobial), product categories (e.g., makeup), product matrix categories, and whether weight fractions were manufacturer-reported or experimentally obtained. Classification into three weight fraction bins was done using a random forest or nonlinear support vector classifier. An ablation study revealed that functional use data improved predictive performance when included alongside chemical property data, suggesting the utility of functional use categories in evaluating the safety and sustainability of emerging chemicals. Models could roughly stratify material-product observations into order of magnitude weight fractions with moderate success; the best of these achieved an average balanced accuracy of 73% on the nanomaterials product data. Framework comparisons also revealed a positive trend in sample size versus average balanced accuracy, suggesting great promise for machine learning approaches with continued investment in chemical data collection.
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