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Comment by gavinray

Hey, I prototyped something similar to this a while back. It used NLP and Elsavier search API to do entity detection and sentiment analysis on drug/effect pairs.

So you would search like "Mirtazapine", and then it would create a word-graph where the drug was in the middle, and it would be connected by things like:

    Mirtazapine --> Reduces --> Anxiety/Depression

    Mirtazapine --> Increases --> Hunger
The words were colored either green/red based on whether it was considered a positive or negative effect, and the size was based on the size of the effect and numbers of mentions.

It was meant to be a tool for clinicians and prescribers to be able to enter a medication and get an easy overview of its effect.

Do you have any interest in pursuing this further?

I know a few investors who I think might still be interested in this.

parent gavinray 6 years ago

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