Hundreds of thousands of patients report unwanted symptoms from using one or more drugs each year. It is virtually impossible to test every drug combination before a drug reaches the market. In this project, we reimplement and integrate two previously proposed tools to mine and visualize interesting pairs of drugs from report data, focusing on creating a single web application that is functional and maintainable. Furthermore, we research and implement new features including drug and reaction name standardization. Upon finishing development, we conduct a user study and technical evaluation to ensure our system meets the requirements and improves usability. Based on the results of our studies, we improve the usability and identify areas that require further attention.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Schade, Andrew Levene
• Zylich, Brian
• McCarthy, Brian
• Tran, Huy Quoc

Contributors

• Kakar, Tabassum
• Qin, Xiao

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032218-171817

Advisor

• Rundensteiner, Elke A.

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-03-22

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright