A comparative study of pattern recognition algorithms for predicting the inpatient mortality risk using routine laboratory measurements
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2018
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Artificial Intelligence Review
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52
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2559–2573
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Springer
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Laboratory tests are a common and relatively cheap way to assess the general health status of patients. Various publications showed the potential of laboratory measurements for predicting inpatient mortality using statistical methodologies. However, these efforts are basically limited to the use of logistic regression models. In the present paper we use anonymized data from about 40,000 inpatient admissions to the Inselspital in Bern (Switzerland) to evaluate the potential of powerful pattern recognition algorithms employed for this particular risk prediction. In addition to the age and sex of the inpatients, a set of 33 laboratory measurements, frequently available at the Inselspital, are used as basic variables. In a large empirical evaluation we demonstrate that recent pattern recognition algorithms (such as random forests, gradient boosted trees or neural networks) outperform the more traditional approaches based on logistic regression. Moreover, we show how the predictions of the pattern recognition algorithms, which cannot be directly interpreted in general, can be calibrated to output a meaningful probabilistic risk score.
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330 - Wirtschaft
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1573-7462
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SCHÜTZ, Narayan, Alexander Benedikt LEICHTLE und Kaspar RIESEN, 2018. A comparative study of pattern recognition algorithms for predicting the inpatient mortality risk using routine laboratory measurements. Artificial Intelligence Review. 2018. Bd. 52, S. 2559–2573. DOI 10.1007/s10462-018-9625-3. Verfügbar unter: https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/42551