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ReviewNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Practices and Trends of Machine Learning Application in Nanotoxicology.

Irini Furxhi, Finbarr Murphy, Martin Mullins, Athanasios Arvanitis, Craig A Poland

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Review in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Nanotoxicology: developments and new insights.Nanomedicine (London, England) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Irini FurxhiDepartment of Accounting and Finance, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, V94PH93 Limerick, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-2263-0279
Finbarr MurphyDepartment of Accounting and Finance, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, V94PH93 Limerick, Ireland.
Martin MullinsDepartment of Accounting and Finance, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, V94PH93 Limerick, Ireland.
Athanasios ArvanitisDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Informatics Research Group, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki Box 483, Greece.
Craig A PolandELEGI/Colt Laboratory, Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, Scotland, UK.

Funding

Colt Foundation CF/01/17Horizon 2020 814425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been applied in the field of nanotoxicology with very encouraging results. Adverse effects of nanoforms are affected by multiple features described by theoretical descriptors, nano-specific measured properties, and experimental conditions. ML has been proven very helpful in this field in order to gain an insight into features effecting toxicity, predicting possible adverse effects as part of proactive risk analysis, and informing safe design. At this juncture, it is important to document and categorize the work that has been carried out. This study investigates and bookmarks ML methodologies used to predict nano (eco)-toxicological outcomes in nanotoxicology during the last decade. It provides a review of the sequenced steps involved in implementing an ML model, from data pre-processing, to model implementation, model validation, and applicability domain. The review gathers and presents the step-wise information on techniques and procedures of existing models that can be used readily to assemble new nanotoxicological in silico studies and accelerates the regulation of in silico tools in nanotoxicology. ML applications in nanotoxicology comprise an active and diverse collection of ongoing efforts, although it is still in their early steps toward a scientific accord, subsequent guidelines, and regulation adoption. This study is an important bookend to a decade of ML applications to nanotoxicology and serves as a useful guide to further in silico applications.

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computationalin silicomachine learningnanoformsnanoparticlenanotoxicology

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PMID31936210
PMCPMC7023261

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