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dc.contributor.advisorNeagu, Daniel
dc.contributor.advisorGraves-Morris, Peter R.
dc.contributor.authorMalazizi, Ladan*
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-16T10:20:27Z
dc.date.available2010-03-16T10:20:27Z
dc.date.issued2010-03-16T10:20:27Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/4262
dc.description.abstractToxic compounds, such as pesticides, are routinely tested against a range of aquatic, avian and mammalian species as part of the registration process. The need for reducing dependence on animal testing has led to an increasing interest in alternative methods such as in silico modelling. The QSAR (Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship)-based models are already in use for predicting physicochemical properties, environmental fate, eco-toxicological effects, and specific biological endpoints for a wide range of chemicals. Data plays an important role in modelling QSARs and also in result analysis for toxicity testing processes. This research addresses number of issues in predictive toxicology. One issue is the problem of data quality. Although large amount of toxicity data is available from online sources, this data may contain some unreliable samples and may be defined as of low quality. Its presentation also might not be consistent throughout different sources and that makes the access, interpretation and comparison of the information difficult. To address this issue we started with detailed investigation and experimental work on DEMETRA data. The DEMETRA datasets have been produced by the EC-funded project DEMETRA. Based on the investigation, experiments and the results obtained, the author identified a number of data quality criteria in order to provide a solution for data evaluation in toxicology domain. An algorithm has also been proposed to assess data quality before modelling. Another issue considered in the thesis was the missing values in datasets for toxicology domain. Least Square Method for a paired dataset and Serial Correlation for single version dataset provided the solution for the problem in two different situations. A procedural algorithm using these two methods has been proposed in order to overcome the problem of missing values. Another issue we paid attention to in this thesis was modelling of multi-class data sets in which the severe imbalance class samples distribution exists. The imbalanced data affect the performance of classifiers during the classification process. We have shown that as long as we understand how class members are constructed in dimensional space in each cluster we can reform the distribution and provide more knowledge domain for the classifier.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>.en
dc.subjectPredictive toxicologyen
dc.subjectToxicity dataen
dc.subjectPesticidesen
dc.subjectArtificial intelligenceen
dc.subjectData qualityen
dc.subjectData generationen
dc.subjectModel performanceen
dc.subjectQSARen
dc.subjectClassification algorithmen
dc.subjectClusteringen
dc.subjectImbalanced dataseten
dc.subjectEndpointsen
dc.titleDevelopment of Artificial Intelligence-based In-Silico Toxicity Models. Data Quality Analysis and Model Performance Enhancement through Data Generation.en
dc.type.qualificationleveldoctoralen
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Bradfordeng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Informaticsen
dc.typeThesiseng
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen
dc.date.awarded2008
refterms.dateFOA2018-07-18T23:19:03Z


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