학술논문

Addressing the clinical unmet needs in primary Sjögren’s Syndrome through the sharing, harmonization and federated analysis of 21 European cohorts
Document Type
article
Source
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Vol 20, Iss , Pp 471-484 (2022)
Subject
Data sharing
Data curation
Data harmonization
Federated AI
Lymphoma classification
Biomarkers
Biotechnology
TP248.13-248.65
Language
English
ISSN
2001-0370
Abstract
For many decades, the clinical unmet needs of primary Sjögren’s Syndrome (pSS) have been left unresolved due to the rareness of the disease and the complexity of the underlying pathogenic mechanisms, including the pSS-associated lymphomagenesis process. Here, we present the HarmonicSS cloud-computing exemplar which offers beyond the state-of-the-art data analytics services to address the pSS clinical unmet needs, including the development of lymphoma classification models and the identification of biomarkers for lymphomagenesis. The users of the platform have been able to successfully interlink, curate, and harmonize 21 regional, national, and international European cohorts of 7,551 pSS patients with respect to the ethical and legal issues for data sharing. Federated AI algorithms were trained across the harmonized databases, with reduced execution time complexity, yielding robust lymphoma classification models with 85% accuracy, 81.25% sensitivity, 85.4% specificity along with 5 biomarkers for lymphoma development. To our knowledge, this is the first GDPR compliant platform that provides federated AI services to address the pSS clinical unmet needs.