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CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY
卷 11, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/clt2.12076
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asthma; childhood; machine learning; prediction
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资金
- University of Southampton Presidential Research Studentship
- Medical Research Council
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre
- Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
This study applied machine learning approaches to predict asthma in early childhood and preschool age, showing that ML methods can improve upon existing predictive models with good generalisability.
Background Respiratory symptoms are common in early life and often transient. It is difficult to identify in which children these will persist and result in asthma. Machine learning (ML) approaches have the potential for better predictive performance and generalisability over existing childhood asthma prediction models. This study applied ML approaches to predict school-age asthma (age 10) in early life (Childhood Asthma Prediction in Early life, CAPE model) and at preschool age (Childhood Asthma Prediction at Preschool age, CAPP model). Methods Clinical and environmental exposure data was collected from children enrolled in the Isle of Wight Birth Cohort (N = 1368, similar to 15% asthma prevalence). Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) identified an optimal subset of features predictive of school-age asthma for each model. Seven state-of-the-art ML classification algorithms were used to develop prognostic models. Training was performed by applying fivefold cross-validation, imputation, and resampling. Predictive performance was evaluated on the test set. Models were further externally validated in the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study (MAAS) cohort. Results RFE identified eight and twelve predictors for the CAPE and CAPP models, respectively. Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms provided the best performance for both the CAPE (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, AUC = 0.71) and CAPP (AUC = 0.82) models. Both models demonstrated good generalisability in MAAS (CAPE 8-year = 0.71, 11-year = 0.71, CAPP 8-year = 0.83, 11-year = 0.79) and excellent sensitivity to predict a subgroup of persistent wheezers. Conclusion Using ML approaches improved upon the predictive performance of existing regression-based models, with good generalisability and ability to rule in asthma and predict persistent wheeze.
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