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Front Physiol. 2017 Apr 11;8:199. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00199. eCollection 2017.

Personalized Medication Response Prediction for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Learning in the Model Space vs. Learning in the Data Space.

Frontiers in physiology

Hin K Wong, Paul A Tiffin, Michael J Chappell, Thomas E Nichols, Patrick R Welsh, Orla M Doyle, Boryana C Lopez-Kolkovska, Sarah K Inglis, David Coghill, Yuan Shen, Peter Tiño

Affiliations

  1. Warwick Manufacturing Group, Institute of Digital Healthcare, University of WarwickCoventry, UK.
  2. Mental Health and Addiction Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of YorkYork, UK.
  3. School of Engineering, University of WarwickCoventry, UK.
  4. School of Psychology, Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon Tyne, UK.
  5. Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, King's College LondonLondon, UK.
  6. Division of Maternal and Child Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of DundeeDundee, UK.
  7. Departments of Paediatrics and Psychiatry, University of MelbourneMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
  8. School of Computer Science, University of BirminghamBirmingham, UK.

PMID: 28443027 PMCID: PMC5387107 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00199

Abstract

Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental health disorders amongst school-aged children with an estimated prevalence of 5% in the global population (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Stimulants, particularly methylphenidate (MPH), are the first-line option in the treatment of ADHD (Reeves and Schweitzer, 2004; Dopheide and Pliszka, 2009) and are prescribed to an increasing number of children and adolescents in the US and the UK every year (Safer et al., 1996; McCarthy et al., 2009), though recent studies suggest that this is tailing off, e.g., Holden et al. (2013). Around 70% of children demonstrate a clinically significant treatment response to stimulant medication (Spencer et al., 1996; Schachter et al., 2001; Swanson et al., 2001; Barbaresi et al., 2006). However, it is unclear which patient characteristics may moderate treatment effectiveness. As such, most existing research has focused on investigating univariate or multivariate correlations between a set of patient characteristics and the treatment outcome, with respect to dosage of one or several types of medication. The results of such studies are often contradictory and inconclusive due to a combination of small sample sizes, low-quality data, or a lack of available information on covariates. In this paper, feature extraction techniques such as latent trait analysis were applied to reduce the dimension of on a large dataset of patient characteristics, including the responses to symptom-based questionnaires, developmental health factors, demographic variables such as age and gender, and socioeconomic factors such as parental income. We introduce a Bayesian modeling approach in a "learning in the model space" framework that combines existing knowledge in the literature on factors that may potentially affect treatment response, with constraints imposed by a treatment response model. The model is personalized such that the variability among subjects is accounted for by a set of subject-specific parameters. For remission classification, this approach compares favorably with conventional methods such as support vector machines and mixed effect models on a range of performance measures. For instance, the proposed approach achieved an area under receiver operator characteristic curve of 82-84%, compared to 75-77% obtained from conventional regression or machine learning ("learning in the data space") methods.

Keywords: Bayesian inference; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; machine learning; methylphenidate; mixed effects model; personalized medicine; prognosis; treatment response

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