Publications by authors named "Weihong Yao"

Hypothesis Generation (HG) aims to expedite biomedical researches by generating novel hypotheses from existing scientific literature. Most existing studies focused on modeling static snapshots of the corpus, neglecting the temporal evolution of scientific terms. Despite recent efforts to learn term evolution from Knowledge Bases (KBs) for HG, the temporal information from multi-source KBs is still overlooked, which contains important, up-to-date knowledge.

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Generating biomedical hypotheses is a difficult task as it requires uncovering the implicit associations between massive scientific terms from a large body of published literature. A recent line of Hypothesis Generation (HG) approaches - temporal graph-based approaches - have shown great success in modeling temporal evolution of term-pair relationships. However, these approaches model the temporal evolution of each term or term-pair with Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) independently, which neglects the rich covariation among all terms or term-pairs while ignoring direct dependencies between any two timesteps in a temporal sequence.

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Decision-making is a basic component of agents' (e.g., intelligent sensors) behaviors, in which one's cognition plays a crucial role in the process and outcome.

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  • The paper discusses Hypothesis Generation (HG), which seeks to identify connections between scientific terms that can enhance public health innovations in prevention and treatment.
  • It introduces a new model called Temporal Attention Networks (TAN) that utilizes attention mechanisms to analyze spatiotemporal dependencies of term-pairs, overcoming limitations of traditional Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN).
  • Results show that TAN outperformed existing methods on multiple biomedical datasets, improving prediction accuracy in fields like Immunotherapy, Virology, and Neurology, thus demonstrating its effectiveness in modeling temporal evolution of term relationships.
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  • The article discusses hypothesis generation (HG), which helps discover connections between scientific terms that are crucial for areas like drug discovery and precision medicine.
  • It introduces a new method called temporal difference embedding (TDE) to better capture how the relationships between term pairs change over time, which is formulated as a prediction task on a dynamic graph.
  • The proposed TDE framework has been tested on real-world biomedical datasets, showing promising results in predicting future interactions between terms.
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Protein-protein interaction (PPI) extraction from published scientific literature provides additional support for precision medicine efforts. Meanwhile, knowledge bases (KBs) contain huge amounts of structured information of protein entities and their relations, which can be encoded in entity and relation embeddings to help PPI extraction. However, the prior knowledge of protein-protein pairs must be selectively used so that it is suitable for different contexts.

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Analyzing the disease data from the view of combinatorial features may better characterize the disease phenotype. In this study, a novel method is proposed to construct feature combinations and a classification model (CFC-CM) by mining key feature relationships. CFC-CM iteratively tests for differences in the feature relationship between different groups.

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Analyzing omics data from a network-based perspective can facilitate biomarker discovery. To improve disease diagnosis and identify prospective information indicating the onset of complex disease, a computational method for identifying potential biomarkers based on differential sub-networks (PB-DSN) is developed. In PB-DSN, Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) is used to measure the relationship between feature ratios and to infer potential networks.

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Background: Cerebral alveolar echinococcosis (CAE) grows infiltratively like a malignant tumor, causing great harm to the human body. It is possible to display mass lesions of CAE using various imaging systems, but regarding the infiltrating proliferation active regions, it is difficult to evaluate its actual range using conventional magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI). This research focused on proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)HMRS) techniques to find the mass and infiltration zone of CAE.

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