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Dimensionality reduction, and function approximation of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) micro-and nanoparticle dissolution rate

Ojha, V. K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9256-1192, Jackowski, K., Abraham, A. and Snásel, V. (2015) Dimensionality reduction, and function approximation of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) micro-and nanoparticle dissolution rate. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 10 (1). pp. 1119-1129. ISSN 1178-2013

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To link to this item DOI: 10.2147/IJN.S71847

Abstract/Summary

Prediction of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) micro- and nanoparticles’ dissolution rates plays a significant role in pharmaceutical and medical industries. The prediction of PLGA dissolution rate is crucial for drug manufacturing. Therefore, a model that predicts the PLGA dissolution rate could be beneficial. PLGA dissolution is influenced by numerous factors (features), and counting the known features leads to a dataset with 300 features. This large number of features and high redundancy within the dataset makes the prediction task very difficult and inaccurate. In this study, dimensionality reduction techniques were applied in order to simplify the task and eliminate irrelevant and redundant features. A heterogeneous pool of several regression algorithms were independently tested and evaluated. In addition, several ensemble methods were tested in order to improve the accuracy of prediction. The empirical results revealed that the proposed evolutionary weighted ensemble method offered the lowest margin of error and significantly outperformed the individual algorithms and the other ensemble techniques.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
ID Code:82149
Publisher:Dove Press

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