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Kun Zeng¹, Zhiwei Pan¹, Yibin Xu²

¹School of Data and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

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|July 2, 2020

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We developed an ensemble learning model using natural language processing to automatically classify clinical trial eligibility criteria. This approach significantly improved accuracy and outperformed existing methods in clinical trial recruitment.

Keywords:

Clinical trial Deep learning Eligibility criteria Ensemble learning Text classification

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Area of Science:

Computational linguistics
Clinical trial informatics
Machine learning

Background:

Eligibility criteria are crucial for selecting participants in clinical trials.
Automated digital screening using natural language processing (NLP) can enhance recruitment efficiency and reduce research costs.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an NLP model for the automated classification of clinical trial eligibility criteria.

Main Methods:

A classifier for short text eligibility criteria was created using ensemble learning.
State-of-the-art pretrained models, including Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), XLNet, and RoBERTa, were integrated.
A Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) model was trained using combined classification results for final eligibility criteria classification.

Main Results:

The proposed method achieved an accuracy of 0.846, precision of 0.803, and recall of 0.817 on a standard dataset.
The macro F1 score was 0.807, surpassing state-of-the-art baseline methods.
Ensemble learning demonstrated significant performance improvement over single models.

Conclusions:

A novel model for classifying clinical trial eligibility criteria was designed using multimodal ensemble learning.
The ensemble approach significantly enhanced performance compared to individual models.
Focal loss was introduced to mitigate class imbalance and improve overall performance.