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Exploring machine learning for monitoring and predicting severe asthma exacerbations

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Prediction of severe exacerbation triggered by uncontrolled asthma is highly important for patients suffering of asthma, as avoiding maleficent symptoms that could need special treatment or even hospitalization, can protect patients from the aftereffects of bronchostilation. In this study 4 machine learning algorithms are assessed with respect to their accuracy in predicting severe asthma exacerbations using various parameters. The approach proposed for personalized decision support and patient guidance considers two classification tasks: a 2-class prediction task, which allows for estimation of risk of exacerbation 7 days ahead, and a 4-class prediction task, which allows for monitoring the on-going exacerbation events with respect to their duration. The preliminary results concerning the 2-class prediction task reveals that daily spirometry and tracking of medication usage are of the most significant metrics on the analysis of the study group of patients who tackled severe exacerbation events during the on-going evaluation campaign. All tested algorithms demonstrate comparable high accuracy, with the SVM and the Bayesian Naive ones demonstrating better sensitivity, while the Random Forests demonstrates better negative prediction power (very high specificity).

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      SETN '18: Proceedings of the 10th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence
      July 2018
      339 pages
      ISBN:9781450364331
      DOI:10.1145/3200947

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