Machine learning in critical care : state-of-the-art and a sepsis case study
Vellido, Alfredo (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina)
Ribas, Vicent (Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya)
Morales, Carles (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Centre de Recerca en Ciència de Dades Intel·ligents i Intel·ligència Artificial)
Ruiz Sanmartín, Adolfo (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron. Institut de Recerca)
Ruiz Rodríguez, Juan Carlos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina)

Fecha:	2018
Resumen:	Like other scientific fields, such as cosmology, high-energy physics, or even the life sciences, medicine and healthcare face the challenge of an extremely quick transformation into data-driven sciences. This challenge entails the daunting task of extracting usable knowledge from these data using algorithmic methods. In the medical context this may for instance realized through the design of medical decision support systems for diagnosis, prognosis and patient management. The intensive care unit (ICU), and by extension the whole area of critical care, is becoming one of the most data-driven clinical environments. The increasing availability of complex and heterogeneous data at the point of patient attention in critical care environments makes the development of fresh approaches to data analysis almost compulsory. Computational Intelligence (CI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods can provide such approaches and have already shown their usefulness in addressing problems in this context. The current study has a dual goal: it is first a review of the state-of-the-art on the use and application of such methods in the field of critical care. Such review is presented from the viewpoint of the different subfields of critical care, but also from the viewpoint of the different available ML and CI techniques. The second goal is presenting a collection of results that illustrate the breath of possibilities opened by ML and CI methods using a single problem, the investigation of septic shock at the ICU. We have presented a structured state-of-the-art that illustrates the broad-ranging ways in which ML and CI methods can make a difference in problems affecting the manifold areas of critical care. The potential of ML and CI has been illustrated in detail through an example concerning the sepsis pathology. The new definitions of sepsis and the relevance of using the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in its diagnosis have been considered. Conditional independence models have been used to address this problem, showing that SIRS depends on both organ dysfunction measured through the Sequential Organ Failure (SOFA) score and the ICU outcome, thus concluding that SIRS should still be considered in the study of the pathophysiology of Sepsis. Current assessment of the risk of dead at the ICU lacks specificity. ML and CI techniques are shown to improve the assessment using both indicators already in place and other clinical variables that are routinely measured. Kernel methods in particular are shown to provide the best performance balance while being amenable to representation through graphical models, which increases their interpretability and, with it, their likelihood to be accepted in medical practice.
Ayudas:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RETOS/TIN2016-79576-R
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Critical care ; Intensive care unit ; Machine Learning ; Sepsis
Publicado en:	BioMedical Engineering OnLine, Vol. 17 (november 2018) , ISSN 1475-925X

DOI: 10.1186/s12938-018-0569-2
PMID: 30458795

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