Drug evaluation based on multiple criteria for dry eye disease: A
QSPR-enhanced VIKOR and TOPSIS approach utilizing degree-based
topological indices
Abstract
A healthy human tear film constitutes proteins, electrolytes, water,
lipids, mucins, and vitamins. The lack of production of tear in the eye
leads to dry eye disease(DED) which is also termed as “Sjögren’s
syndrome”. Utilizing degree-based topological indices on molecular
graphs reveal insights into the physicochemical properties of these
drugs, such as polar surface area, polarizability, boiling point,
enthalpy, molar refraction, molar volume, molecular weight and
complexity are crucial in predicting their efficacy in the treatment.
Various studies have been carried out in QSPR/QSAR analysis using linear
regression and curvilinear regression. In this article, multiple linear
regression is applied to find the correlation between seven
physicochemical properties and 11 topological indices for dry eye
disease drugs. For the considered properties of drugs under the study,
Polarizability has shown significant results with high correlation and
least RMSE ( R=0 .996 & RMSE=1 .419) using
various significant topological indices. The study is extended to
evaluate and rank 22 dry eye disease drugs using Multi-Criteria
Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques such as TOPSIS and VIKOR. The analysis
revealed that Tacrolimus and Cyclosporine being ranked number 1 and
number 22 respectively as identified by TOPSIS and VIKOR.