期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
卷 58, 期 -, 页码 133-144出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.09.021
关键词
Prognostic model; Disease progression; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Time windows; Patient snapshots
资金
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) [UID/CEC/50021/2013, PTDC/EIA-EIA/111239/2009]
- [SFRH/BD/82042/2011]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/82042/2011, PTDC/EIA-EIA/111239/2009] Funding Source: FCT
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease and the most common neurodegenerative disorder of young adults. ALS patients present a rapidly progressive motor weakness. This usually leads to death in a few years by respiratory failure. The correct prediction of respiratory insufficiency is thus key for patient management. In this context, we propose an innovative approach for prognostic prediction based on patient snapshots and time windows. We first cluster temporally-related tests to obtain snapshots of the patient's condition at a given time (patient snapshots). Then we use the snapshots to predict the probability of an ALS patient to require assisted ventilation after k days from the time of clinical evaluation (time window). This probability is based on the patient's current condition, evaluated using clinical features, including functional impairment assessments and a complete set of respiratory tests. The prognostic models include three temporal windows allowing to perform short, medium and long term prognosis regarding progression to assisted ventilation. Experimental results show an area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) in the test set of approximately 79% for time windows of 90, 180 and 365 days. Creating patient snapshots using hierarchical clustering with constraints outperforms the state of the art, and the proposed prognostic model becomes the first non population-based approach for prognostic prediction in ALS. The results are promising and should enhance the current clinical practice, largely supported by non-standardized tests and clinicians' experience. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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