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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2018

Fuzzy Evaluation of Pharmacokinetic Models.

Carlos Sepúlveda, Oscar Montiel, José M Cornejo Bravo, Roberto Sepúlveda

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Article in Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Carlos SepúlvedaInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital (CITEDI-IPN), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, No. 1310, Col. Nueva Tijuana, 22435 Tijuana, BC, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-4429-1324
Oscar MontielInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital (CITEDI-IPN), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, No. 1310, Col. Nueva Tijuana, 22435 Tijuana, BC, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-7060-9204
José M Cornejo BravoFacultad de Ciencias Químicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Calzada Universidad 14418, Parque Industrial Internacional Tijuana, 22390 Tijuana, BC, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-0013-8937
Roberto SepúlvedaInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital (CITEDI-IPN), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, No. 1310, Col. Nueva Tijuana, 22435 Tijuana, BC, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-8853-1599

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) models allow researchers to predict and analyze drug behavior in a population of individuals and to quantify the different sources of variability among these individuals. In the development of PopPK models, the most frequently used method is the nonlinear mixed effect model (NLME). However, once the PopPK model has been developed, it is necessary to determine if the selected model is the best one of the developed models during the population pharmacokinetic study, and this sometimes becomes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem, and frequently, researchers use statistical evaluation criteria to choose the final PopPK model. The used evaluation criteria mentioned above entail big problems since the selection of the best model becomes susceptible to the human error mainly by misinterpretation of the results. To solve the previous problems, we introduce the development of a software robot that can automate the task of selecting the best PopPK model considering the knowledge of human expertise. The software robot is a fuzzy expert system that provides a method to systematically perform evaluations on a set of candidate PopPK models of commonly used statistical criteria. The presented results strengthen our hypothesis that the software robot can be successfully used to evaluate PopPK models ensuring the selection of the best PopPK model.

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Models, BiologicalNonlinear DynamicsPharmacokineticsSoftwareAlgorithmsData AnalysisHumans

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PMID30728832
PMCPMC6341258

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