Applying artificial intelligence in the microbiome for gastrointestinal diseases: A review

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Apr;36(4):832-840. doi: 10.1111/jgh.15503.

Abstract

For a long time, gut bacteria have been recognized for their important roles in the occurrence and progression of gastrointestinal diseases like colorectal cancer, and the ever-increasing amounts of microbiome data combined with other high-quality clinical and imaging datasets are leading the study of gastrointestinal diseases into an era of biomedical big data. The "omics" technologies used for microbiome analysis continuously evolve, and the machine learning or artificial intelligence technologies are key to extract the relevant information from microbiome data. This review intends to provide a focused summary of recent research and applications of microbiome big data and to discuss the use of artificial intelligence to combat gastrointestinal diseases.

Keywords: amplicons; artificial intelligence; gastrointestinal diseases; gut bacteria; metagenomics.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence / trends*
  • Big Data*
  • Datasets as Topic
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / etiology*
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / microbiology*
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*