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Machine learning methods for septic shock prediction

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Abstract

Sepsis is an organ dysfunction life-threatening disease that is caused by a dysregulated body response to infection. Sepsis is difficult to detect at an early stage, and when not detected early, is difficult to treat and results in high mortality rates. Developing improved methods for identifying patients in high risk of suffering septic shock has been the focus of much research in recent years. This paper develops an improved method for septic shock prediction. Using the data from the MMIC-III database, an ensemble classifier is trained to identify high-risk patients. A robust prediction model is built by obtaining a risk score from fitting the Cox Hazard model on multiple input features. The score is added to the list of features and the Random Forest ensemble classifier is trained to produce the model. The Cox Enhanced Random Forest (CERF) proposed method is evaluated by comparing its predictive accuracy to those of extant methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAIVR 2018 - 2018 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages104-110
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450366410
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 23 2018
Event2018 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, AIVR 2018 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: Nov 23 2018Nov 25 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality

Conference

Conference2018 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, AIVR 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period11/23/1811/25/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Classification
  • Cox hazards model
  • Ensemble classifier
  • Machine learning
  • Prediction
  • Random forests
  • Sepsis
  • Septic shock

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