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  • Environmental Health
  • Computational Toxicology
  • Epidemiology

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  • Assessing health risks from combined pollutants is complex.
  • Understanding the interplay of multiple industrial pollutants on disease is critical.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the Pollutants Outcome Disease concept.
  • To explore joint effects of industrial pollutants on diseases using explainable AI.
  • To analyze these effects using lung cancer as a case study.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an extreme gradient boosting predictive model integrating meteorological, socio-economic, pollutant, and lung cancer data.
  • Employed SHAP (Shapley Additive exPlanations) for interpretable analysis of joint pollutant effects.
  • Utilized multidisciplinary knowledge and artificial intelligence (AI).

Main Results:

  • Identified substantial spatial heterogeneity in pollutant emissions (CPG, ILC).
  • Revealed pronounced nonlinear relationships between variables and lung cancer.
  • Achieved strong predictive performance (R=0.954, R²=0.911), highlighting pollutant emission impact.
  • Observed diverse joint effect patterns, including antagonistic and synergistic interactions.

Conclusions:

  • The study offers a new perspective on exploring joint pollutant effects on diseases.
  • Demonstrates AI's potential in advancing scientific discovery in environmental health.
  • Highlights the importance of considering combined pollutant exposures for accurate risk assessment.