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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Rare Diseases: Is the Future Brighter?

Sandra Brasil, Carlota Pascoal, Rita Francisco, Vanessa Dos Reis Ferreira, Paula A Videira, And Gonçalo Valadão

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Review in Genes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sandra BrasilPortuguese Association for CDG, 2820-381 Lisboa, Portugal.
Carlota PascoalPortuguese Association for CDG, 2820-381 Lisboa, Portugal.
Rita FranciscoPortuguese Association for CDG, 2820-381 Lisboa, Portugal.
Vanessa Dos Reis FerreiraPortuguese Association for CDG, 2820-381 Lisboa, Portugal.
Paula A VideiraPortuguese Association for CDG, 2820-381 Lisboa, Portugal.
And Gonçalo ValadãoInstituto de Telecomunicações, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amount of data collected and managed in (bio)medicine is ever-increasing. Thus, there is a need to rapidly and efficiently collect, analyze, and characterize all this information. Artificial intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on deep learning, holds great promise in this area and is already being successfully applied to basic research, diagnosis, drug discovery, and clinical trials. Rare diseases (RDs), which are severely underrepresented in basic and clinical research, can particularly benefit from AI technologies. Of the more than 7000 RDs described worldwide, only 5% have a treatment. The ability of AI technologies to integrate and analyze data from different sources (e.g., multi-omics, patient registries, and so on) can be used to overcome RDs' challenges (e.g., low diagnostic rates, reduced number of patients, geographical dispersion, and so on). Ultimately, RDs' AI-mediated knowledge could significantly boost therapy development. Presently, there are AI approaches being used in RDs and this review aims to collect and summarize these advances. A section dedicated to congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG), a particular group of orphan RDs that can serve as a potential study model for other common diseases and RDs, has also been included.

Indexed as

Deep LearningClinical Trials as TopicDrug DiscoveryHumansPrecision MedicineRare Diseasesartificial intelligencebig datacongenital disorders of glycosylationdiagnosisdrug repurposingmachine learningpersonalized medicinerare diseases

Identifiers

PMID31783696
PMCPMC6947640

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