IMIPMF: Inferring miRNA-disease interactions using probabilistic matrix factorization.

•A novel method (IMIPMF) for predicting miRNA-disease associations by using probabilistic matrix factorization was proposed.•IMIPMF achieved a high performance with a comparable AUC value of 0.891 by implementing five-fold cross validation.•The success of IMIPMF in predicting miRNA-disease associations can be explained by its mathematical foundations in MF and the utilization of miRNA expression data.