Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Authors
Orangi-Fard, Negar
Akhbardeh, Alireza
Sagreiya, Hersh
Issue Date
2022-01-26
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
natural language processing , machine learning , intensive care unit , readmission , health informatice
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Abstract
Predicting ICU readmission risk will help physicians make decisions regarding discharge.
We used discharge summaries to predict ICU 30-day readmission risk using text mining and machine
learning (ML) with data from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III).We
used Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Bag-of-Words approach on discharge summaries
to build a Document-Term-Matrix with 3000 features. We compared the performance of support
vector machines with the radial basis function kernel (SVM-RBF), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost),
quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA), least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO),
and Ridge Regression. A total of 4000 patients were used for model training and 6000 were used
for validation. Using the bag-of-words determined by NLP, the area under the receiver operating
characteristic (AUROC) curve was 0.71, 0.68, 0.65, 0.69, and 0.65 correspondingly for SVM-RBF,
AdaBoost, QDA, LASSO, and Ridge Regression. We then used the SVM-RBF model for feature
selection by incrementally adding features to the model from 1 to 3000 bag-of-words. Through this
exhaustive search approach, only 825 features (words) were dominant. Using those selected features,
we trained and validated all ML models. The AUROC curve was 0.74, 0.69, 0.67, 0.70, and 0.71
respectively for SVM-RBF, AdaBoost, QDA, LASSO, and Ridge Regression. Overall, this technique
could predict ICU readmission relatively well.
Description
AMA Style
Orangi-Fard N, Akhbardeh A, Sagreiya H. Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Informatics. 2022; 9(1):10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010
Chicago/Turabian Style
Orangi-Fard, Negar, Alireza Akhbardeh, and Hersh Sagreiya. 2022. "Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing" Informatics 9, no. 1: 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010
AMA Style Orangi-Fard N, Akhbardeh A, Sagreiya H. Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Informatics. 2022; 9(1):10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010 Chicago/Turabian Style Orangi-Fard, Negar, Alireza Akhbardeh, and Hersh Sagreiya. 2022. "Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing" Informatics 9, no. 1: 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010
AMA Style Orangi-Fard N, Akhbardeh A, Sagreiya H. Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Informatics. 2022; 9(1):10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010 Chicago/Turabian Style Orangi-Fard, Negar, Alireza Akhbardeh, and Hersh Sagreiya. 2022. "Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing" Informatics 9, no. 1: 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010
Citation
Orangi-Fard, N.; Akhbardeh, A.; Sagreiya, H. Predictive Model for ICU Readmission Based on Discharge Summaries Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Informatics 2022, 9, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics9010010
Publisher
MDPI
License
Journal
Informatics
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PubMed ID
DOI
ISSN
2227-9709