Title
Classification of postoperative surgical site infections from blood measurements with missing data using recurrent neural networks
Abstract
Clinical measurements that can be represented as time series constitute an important fraction of the electronic health records and are often both uncertain and incomplete. Recurrent neural networks are a special class of neural networks that are particularly suitable to process time series data but, in their original formulation, cannot explicitly deal with missing data. In this paper, we explore imputation strategies for handling missing values in classifiers based on recurrent neural network (RNN) and apply a recently proposed recurrent architecture, the Gated Recurrent Unit with Decay, specifically designed to handle missing data. We focus on the problem of detecting surgical site infection in patients by analyzing time series of their blood sample measurements and we compare the results obtained with different RNN-based classifiers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BHI.2018.8333430
2018 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
recurrent neural network,clinical measurements,time series data,Gated Recurrent Unit,blood sample measurements,recurrent architecture,postoperative surgical site infection classification,electronic health records,RNN-based classifiers
Conference
abs/1711.06516
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-2406-7
2
0.37
References 
Authors
0
6