Title
Predicting brain function status changes in critically ill patients via Machine learning
Abstract
Objective: In intensive care units (ICUs), a patient's brain function status can shift from a state of acute brain dysfunction (ABD) to one that is ABD-free and vice versa, which is challenging to forecast and, in turn, hampers the allocation of hospital resources. We aim to develop a machine learning model to predict next-day brain function status changes. Materials and Methods: Using multicenter prospective adult cohorts involving medical and surgical ICU patients from 2 civilian and 3 Veteran Affairs hospitals, we trained and externally validated a light gradient boosting machine to predict brain function status changes. We compared the performances of the boosting model against state-of-the-art models-an ABD predictive model and its variants. We applied Shapley additive explanations to identify influential factors to develop a compact model. Results: There were 1026 critically ill patients without evidence of prior major dementia, or structural brain diseases, from whom 12 295 daily transitions (ABD: 5847 days; ABD-free: 6448 days) were observed. The boosting model achieved an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.824 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.821-0.827), compared with the state-of-the-art models of 0.697 (95% CI, 0.693-0.701) with P< .001. Using 13 identified top influential factors, the compact model achieved 99.4% of the boosting model on AUROC. The boosting and the compact models demonstrated high generalizability in external validation by achieving an AUROC of 0.812 (95% CI, 0.812-0.813). Conclusion: The inputs of the compact model are based on several simple questions that clinicians can quickly answer in practice, which demonstrates the model has direct prospective deployment potential into clinical practice, aiding in critical hospital resource allocation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/jamia/ocab166
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
acute brain dysfunction, intensive care unit, transition prediction, machine learning, brain function status change
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1067-5027
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Yan179.62
Cheng Gao2128.29
Ziqi Zhang311.74
Wencong Chen400.34
Bradley Malin51302113.97
E Wesley Ely600.34
Mayur B. Patel712.44
You Chen811610.74