Summary of Towards Personalised Patient Risk Prediction Using Temporal Hospital Data Trajectories, by Thea Barnes et al.
Towards Personalised Patient Risk Prediction Using Temporal Hospital Data Trajectories
by Thea Barnes, Enrico Werner, Jeffrey N. Clark, Raul Santos-Rodriguez
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed pipeline groups intensive care unit patients by their observation data trajectories throughout their stay, enabling personalized risk predictions. This approach considers feature importance for model explainability. The study uses the MIMIC-IV dataset to identify six clusters capturing differences in disease codes, observations, lengths of admissions, and outcomes. When applied to the first four hours of each ICU stay, the majority of patients are assigned to the same cluster as when considering the entire stay duration. Models trained on individual clusters have higher F1 score performance compared to the unclustered patient cohort in five out of six clusters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Patients’ health status is crucial for clinicians to triage and manage resources effectively. Early Warning Scores (EWS) measure overall health status and risk, but current EWS are limited by their lack of personalization and use of static observations. This study proposes a new pipeline that groups ICU patients based on observation data throughout their stay, allowing for personalized risk predictions. By considering feature importance, the model is more explainable. The researchers used the MIMIC-IV dataset to identify different patient clusters. These clusters can be used to improve clinical decision-making and detect patient deterioration early. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » F1 score
