{"id":3865,"date":"2025-07-12T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3865\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:08:03","slug":"advanced-hybrid-computational-analysis-of-febuxostat-solubility-using-machine-learning-in-supercritical-processing-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3865\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced hybrid computational analysis of febuxostat solubility using machine learning in supercritical processing method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data set<\/p>\n<p>In this study, we modelled a data set consisting of 24 rows of information about the solubility of FBX (febuxostat) drug at different temperatures and pressures. Table\u00a0<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-track-action=\"table anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#Tab1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> displays all of this information in its entirety with the values of inputs. The dataset is taken from Abourehab et al.<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 19\" title=\"Abourehab, M. A. S. et al. Experimental evaluation and thermodynamic analysis of febuxostat solubility in supercritical solvent. J. Mol. Liq. 364, 120040 (2022).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR19\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e494\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19<\/a> that reported measurement of FBX solubility in supercritical CO2 at four temperature levels of 308, 318, 328, and 338\u00a0K. Also, the pressure of the system was set between 120 and 270\u00a0bar. The data has been also used by Hani et al.<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 3\" title=\"Hani, U. et al. Mathematical optimization and prediction of febuxostat Xanthine oxidase inhibitor solubility through supercritical CO2 system using machine-learning approach. J. Mol. Liq. 387, 122486 (2023).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR3\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a> for building ML models and analysis of solubility behavior of FBX.<\/p>\n<p>Table 1 Solubility values of FBX in ScCO2<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 19\" title=\"Abourehab, M. A. S. et al. Experimental evaluation and thermodynamic analysis of febuxostat solubility in supercritical solvent. J. Mol. Liq. 364, 120040 (2022).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR19\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e517\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The overall modeling workflow of this research is shown in Fig.\u00a0<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-track-action=\"figure anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#Fig1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, and its building blocks are introduced in the following subsections. The first steps in handling modeling are data normalization and data division into training and testing. Normalization prevents the excessive effect of one of the two input parameters due to the higher variation range on the final output. The models that are introduced in detail are then optimized using the HHO algorithm in terms of their hyper-parameters to obtain the final models. Finally, the obtained models (both single mode and voting mode) are tested with test data that were not used in the training phase.<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of machine learning regressive models and visualization were carried out using Python programming language (3.8 version) and \u201csklearn\u201d, \u201cnumpy\u201d, and \u201cmatplotlib\u201d libraries in this study.<\/p>\n<p>Fig. 1<a class=\"c-article-section__figure-link\" data-test=\"img-link\" data-track=\"click\" data-track-label=\"image\" data-track-action=\"view figure\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9\/figures\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"Fig1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/41598_2025_10221_Fig1_HTML.png\" alt=\"figure 1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"685\" height=\"545\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall workflow of this research for estimation of FBX solubility in ScCO2.<\/p>\n<p>K-Nearest neighbors regression (KNN)<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of this approach is a distance metric that is used to partition the dataset into manageable chunks. The parameters that affect the model\u2019s performance were taken into account before its application could proceed. Therefore, these parameters can be optimized to boost the model\u2019s efficiency. The model is optimized taking into account the number of neighbors, the weight of the points, the distance, and the p parameter associated with the Minkowski function. Grouping the dependent variable or response data into subsets is indicated by numbers in the vicinity. Uniform and weighted modes are established for the point weights in the model, where the latter is based on the distance between the points. The KNN model assigned equal importance to each data point, but the distance model gave more weight to points close by. Several different measures were utilized to quantify the distance in addition to the standard Euclidean distance (d0). Parameter optimization was performed using Euclidean, Manhattan, Minkowski, and Chebyshev relations in the subsequent equations<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 20\" title=\"Von Luxburg, U. Statistical learning with similarity and dissimilarity functions (Technische Universit&#xE4;t, 2004).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR20\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e959\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gaussian process regression (GPR)<\/p>\n<p>Gaussian process regression is an effective approach for modeling, exploring, and exploiting unknown functions<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 21\" title=\"Schulz, E., Speekenbrink, M. &amp; Krause, A. A tutorial on Gaussian process regression: modelling, exploring, and exploiting functions. J. Math. Psychol. 85, 1&#x2013;16 (2018).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR21\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21<\/a>. As a relatively new statistical ML algorithm within the context of Bayesian formulation, Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) has recently garnered attention for its use in modeling thanks to its ability to employ probabilistic regression in the determination of hyperparameters for multidimensional, small, and nonlinear data sets<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 22\" title=\"Lin, C. et al. Gaussian process regression-based forecasting model of dam deformation. Neural Comput. Appl. 31 (12), 8503&#x2013;8518 (2019).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR22\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e975\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">22<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cGaussian process\u201d (GP) is used to describe a set of variables, some of which show Gaussian distributions and others that do not<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 23\" title=\"Grbi&#x107;, R., Kurtagi&#x107;, D. &amp; Sli&#x161;kovi&#x107;, D. Stream water temperature prediction based on Gaussian process regression. Expert Syst. Appl. 40 (18), 7407&#x2013;7414 (2013).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR23\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e982\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">23<\/a>,<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 24\" title=\"Ma, X., Xu, F. &amp; Chen, B. Interpolation of wind pressures using Gaussian process regression. J. Wind Eng. Ind. Aerodyn. 188, 30&#x2013;42 (2019).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR24\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e985\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24<\/a>. Appropriate measures of a GP\u2019s quality include the mean, covariance, and function. In this procedure, Gaussian distributions (GDs) are widened. As part of this procedure, we use a matrix and a vector to symbolize the covariance and the mean, respectively<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 25\" title=\"Rasmussen, C. E. Gaussian Processes In Machine Learning. In Summer School on Machine Learning (Springer, 2003).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR25\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e989\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Voting regression<\/p>\n<p>In addition to using standalone GPR and KNN models separately in this research, we have used the combined voting model by combining these two models as a novelty aspect of this paper. This model actually consists of Ng GPR models and Nk KNN models, which in the end will be the average output of all these Ng + Nk models. Therefore, for this model, in addition to the hyper-parameters of the models, we also need to tune the Ng and Nk values.<\/p>\n<p>HHO algorithm<\/p>\n<p>Optimizing hyper-parameters is one of the important activities in modeling physical systems with the help of ML models, while a wide range of optimizers have been developed so far such as Meta-heuristic methods<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 26\" title=\"Lakhdari, C. et al. Meta-heuristic optimization for drying kinetics and quality assessment of Capparis spinosa buds. Chem. Eng. Commun. 211 (12), 1864&#x2013;1883 (2024).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR26\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e1047\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">26<\/a>,<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 27\" title=\"Mahtal, B. E. D. N. et al. Predicting pesticide LC50 toxicity using convolutional neural networks and Dragonfly-Support vector machine methods with quantitative Structure-Activity relationship and 2D molecular fingerprints: A case study on Oncorhynchus Mykiss. Chem. Afr. 8 (4), 1463&#x2013;1476 (2025).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR27\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e1050\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27<\/a>. One more original facet of this study is that the HHO method is responsible for this optimization.<\/p>\n<p>The natural behavior of Harris hawks as prey and predator served as inspiration for the HHO algorithm, a bionic optimization algorithm. It\u2019s great for figuring out tricky optimization issues<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 28\" title=\"Heidari, A. A. et al. Harris Hawks optimization: algorithm and applications. Future Generation Comput. Syst. 97, 849&#x2013;872 (2019).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR28\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e1057\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28<\/a>,<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 29\" title=\"Thawkar, S. Feature selection and classification in mammography using hybrid crow search algorithm with Harris Hawks optimization. Biocybernetics Biomedical Eng. 42 (4), 1094&#x2013;1111 (2022).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR29\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e1060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29<\/a>. This algorithm takes the scene\u2019s dynamics and the prey\u2019s potential to escape into account. Harris hawk behaviors such as foraging and scouting are modelled using a variety of position update strategies. The HHO algorithm, which is a hybrid of swarm and non-gradient optimization, consists of three phases: exploration, transition from exploration to exploitation, and exploitation<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 30\" title=\"Zhong, X. et al. A hybrid differential evolution based on gaining&#x2013;sharing knowledge algorithm and Harris Hawks optimization. Plos One. 16 (4), e0250951 (2021).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR30\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e1064\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30<\/a>. HHO can easily have its initial regulating parameters determined due to its adaptable structure. Prior research<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 28\" title=\"Heidari, A. A. et al. Harris Hawks optimization: algorithm and applications. Future Generation Comput. Syst. 97, 849&#x2013;872 (2019).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10221-9#ref-CR28\" id=\"ref-link-section-d216318556e1068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28<\/a> conducted in-depth comparison studies between HHO and 12 other optimization techniques (such as GA, PSO, and DE algorithms) using the 29 benchmark functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data set In this study, we modelled a data set consisting of 24 rows of information about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,4436,4435,1159,1877,2528,2236,1160,4437,79,4438,74],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-drug-solubility","tag-engineering","tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","tag-machine-learning","tag-materials-science","tag-modeling","tag-multidisciplinary","tag-optimization","tag-science","tag-supercritical-fluid","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}