Trial2Vec: Zero-Shot Clinical Trial Document Similarity Search using Self-Supervision

06/29/2022
by   Zifeng Wang, et al.
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Clinical trials are essential for drug development but are extremely expensive and time-consuming to conduct. It is beneficial to study similar historical trials when designing a clinical trial. However, lengthy trial documents and lack of labeled data make trial similarity search difficult. We propose a zero-shot clinical trial retrieval method, Trial2Vec, which learns through self-supervision without annotating similar clinical trials. Specifically, the meta-structure of trial documents (e.g., title, eligibility criteria, target disease) along with clinical knowledge (e.g., UMLS knowledge base https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/index.html) are leveraged to automatically generate contrastive samples. Besides, Trial2Vec encodes trial documents considering meta-structure thus producing compact embeddings aggregating multi-aspect information from the whole document. We show that our method yields medically interpretable embeddings by visualization and it gets a 15 retrieval, which is evaluated on our labeled 1600 trial pairs. In addition, we prove the pre-trained embeddings benefit the downstream trial outcome prediction task over 240k trials.

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