Abstract
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Background
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI), which occurs commonly worldwide, is among the more costly of health and socioeconomic problems. Accurate prediction of favorable outcomes in severe TBI patients could assist with optimizing treatment procedures, predicting clinical outcomes, and result in substantial economic savings.
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Methods
- In this study, we examined the capability of a machine learning-based model in predicting “favorable” or “unfavorable” outcomes after 6 months in severe TBI patients using only parameters measured on admission. Three models were developed using logistic regression, random forest, and support vector machines trained on parameters recorded from 2,381 severe TBI patients admitted to the neuro-intensive care unit of Rajaee (Emtiaz) Hospital (Shiraz, Iran) between 2015 and 2017. Model performance was evaluated using three indices: sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. A ten-fold cross-validation method was used to estimate these indices.
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Results
- Overall, the developed models showed excellent performance with the area under the curve around 0.81, sensitivity and specificity of around 0.78. The top-three factors important in predicting 6-month post-trauma survival status in TBI patients are “Glasgow coma scale motor response,” “pupillary reactivity,” and “age.”
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Conclusions
- Machine learning techniques might be used to predict the 6-month outcome in TBI patients using only the parameters measured on admission when the machine learning is trained using a large data set.
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Keywords: artificial intelligence; favorable outcome; neuromonitoring; neurotrauma; traumatic brain injury
INTRODUCTION
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common and costly health and socioeconomic problems worldwide. The incidence of TBI is higher than that of complex diseases such as breast cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson disease, such that TBI is considered the leading cause of mortality and disability amongst individuals under 45 years of age. This brain injury is the cause of approximately 50,000 deaths per year in the United States [1–3]. It is reported that around 10%–15% of patients with TBI need specialist care leading to high costs for both individuals and society. Accurate assessment and classification of patients with TBI could assist with diagnosing, optimizing treatment procedures, improving clinical outcomes, and may result in substantial economic savings.
A common measure for long-term functional outcomes in TBI patients is the Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) or its extended version extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOSE), which consists of eight ordered categories [4]. These measures are acknowledged to be standard means of describing outcomes in head injury patients due to several advantages such as their reliability, validity, stability, simplicity, availability, and ease of access. Considering the costs of TBI, developing a model capable of predicting favorable or unfavorable GOS/GOSE outcomes in advance might assist the clinicians to optimize the management and treatment of this injury.
Several prediction models using machine learning tools were developed to predict GOS based on medical image modalities [5–8]. Focusing on a specific age group, Hale et al. [5,6] used imaging techniques that display many strengths, such as consistency of computed tomography or ubiquitous usage of magnetic resonance imaging, as well as the multimodal techniques based on this imaging techniques. Nonetheless, imaging data quality might be uneven, have variabilities in data types, atlases, interpretations, and user specifics [9]. Folweiler et al. [10] utilized clustering, which deals with the challenge of picking a confident evaluation method [10]. On the other hand, a combination of machine learning methods and information datasets of patients, including the GOS parameter, was used for providing the prediction models in some of the previous works [11–15]. Employing crucial parameters for outcome prediction is absent in [12,14], while the sample size in [13] is not sufficiently high and hence might not be reliable enough. Moreover, in Eftekhar et al.’s study [15], a specific portion of data was considered, and the time of mortality evaluation was not mentioned clearly. Conveniently, reporting 100% sensitivity for mortality prediction creates an unrealistic picture of the model performance and is a sign of a severe overfitting problem in [11]. In two studies [16,17], authors only focused on feature selection methods, and important features and classification models were not explored in these works. One major problem in [16] is the value of 58.9% for sensitivity that is lower than existing standards; another is the 89.2% specificity that shows unbalanced accuracy for different groups. A reliable model to predict the outcome of TBI could be used as a decision aid system for prognosis, treatment, and neurosurgery with better quality.
In this research, we explored the possibility of developing a machine learning-based model for predicting “favorable” or “unfavorable” outcome after 6 months in severe TBI patients. The parameters measured at admission were used as features (predictors), and three different machine learning models were examined.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The procedures used in this study were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from the participants included in the study. The study protocol has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), Shiraz, Iran (Ethic #IR.SUMS.REC.1397.296).
The objective of this work was to develop a model capable of predicting GOSE for TBI patients after 6 months. Precisely, the model was to predict and decide whether GOSE will be “favorable” or “unfavorable” for a patient 6 months after severe TBI. We considered GOSE > 4 as “favorable” and GOSE ≤4 as “unfavorable.” The process consisted of three steps: data collection, model development, and evaluation.
Data Collection
Nine features/variables from 2,381 patients admitted to the neuro-intensive care unit of Rajaee (Emtiaz) Hospital (Shiraz, Iran) between 2015 and 2017 were collected and used as predictors. These features were parameters measured upon admission including age, sex, Rotterdam index, blood sugar (BS) level, pupil reactivity, coagulation measures prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (PT-INR), GCS motor response, and systolic blood pressure (SBP). The GOSE was measured by experts 6 months after severe TBI trauma.
The GOSE was subsequently categorized into “unfavorable” (GOSE <5 meaning dead, vegetative state, or severe disability) or “favorable” (GOSE > 4 meaning mild disability or full recovery) outcomes. Ultimately, 470 cases (27.9%) were considered as “unfavorable” and 1,212 cases (72.1%) were categorized as “favorable.”.
Model Development
The model development process consisted of two steps: feature selection and classification. Feature selection was used to identify and remove inappropriate variables from the feature set. The remaining subset of variables was included in the model as the predictors. For this purpose, we employed the sequential forward selection (SFS) technique in which features were serially added to the model one at a time until there were no remaining candidate features that significantly improved the model performance. We used the classification accuracy as the objective function (the wrapper method). The SFS algorithms are discussed in [18]. To construct the predicting model, three well-known algorithms were explored: logistic regression (LR), random forest (RF), and support vector machines.
Logistic regression
LR is a classification algorithm (statistical model) which estimates the probability that a given sample belongs to a certain class. The estimation is conducted using a sigmoid (logistic) function applied to the weighted average of the predictors. The learning procedure is finding the value of these weights [19]. For binary classification, the class label is determined using the thresholding techniques with a threshold value of 0.5 in general. However, the threshold value can be adjusted to balance the sensitivity or specificity when needed.
Random forest
RF is a kind of ensemble classifier based on a different combination of decision trees. Apart from the standard trees, where each node is split based on the most promising splits among all the variables, RF splits each node using the best variable. The best feature is chosen from a subset of randomly assembled variables. This concept has made RF robust against overfitting. The process of developing a RF classifier is well discussed in [20,21].
Support vector machines
Support vector machines emphasize seeking a decision boundary that minimizes the generalization error. This is achieved by maximizing margin. For the problems with nonlinearly separable classes, the data is mapped onto a new space using kernels such that in the new space the data is linearly separable and the SVM optimization problem will fruitfully yield a separating hyperplane [19,22].
Evaluation
The performance of the proposed predicting model was assessed using three performance indices including sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Additionally, the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) was used to evaluate the capability of the predictors in discriminating the 6-month post-trauma survival status of the patients. In estimating these indices, we used the k-fold cross-validation procedure to ensure unbiased estimation and ultimately unbiased evaluation of the developed prediction models. The given dataset was randomly divided into k subsets, and then the classifier was trained using k-1 subsets and was tested on the remaining subset. This procedure was repeated k times.
RESULTS
The mean age of the patients with TBI was 39.41 years and the majority of patients were male (up to 83%). Approximately 29% of the cases contained at least one missing value in a variable. Out of 2,381 cases analyzed in this study, only 1,682 (up to 71%) cases had full parameters; for the remainder of cases some value for some parameter was missing. After removing cases with missing values, we ended up with 1,682 cases. A summary of the data set is provided in Table 1. The distribution of each variable in both ‘favorable’ and ‘unfavorable’ groups is provided in Figure 1. In this figure, for the six variables of age, BS level, SBP on admission, GCS motor response, and Rotterdam index, within-group boxplots were provided. However, for the categorical variable “pupil reactivity,” for each category of anisocoria (A), brisk (B), and fixed (F) the proportion of favorable cases is calculated.
The results of the two employed feature selection methods, step-wise and random forest, are provided in Table 2 along with summaries of the most important features found by each technique. The performance of the three prediction models estimated using 10-fold cross-validation method is summarized in Table 3. Pair-wise comparison of the mean values was conducted using a multivariate analysis of variance at a 5% significance level and the Tukey-Kramer honestly significant difference test. The results of the ROC and AUC analyses are shown in Figure 2.
DISCUSSION
This work aimed to use machine learning techniques in developing a model to predict the 6-month clinical outcome using baseline parameters and brain-specific imaging parameters in severe TBI patients. The results shown in Table 3 and Figure 2 indicate that the three examined models performed well for this task. Statistical analyses of the performance of the developed methods showed that there is no significant difference between the estimation ability of the examined methods. However, the LR model can be preferred over the two other methods (i.e., SVM and RF) as it is simple and easily interpretable. Further, the model could be used to estimate the chance of un/favorable outcome for the patients; this could be more beneficial than estimating just the binary class label.
The predicted models were more accurate than other works [11,16] in predicting “unfavorable” outcomes. Our models also provided comparable AUC (>0.83, see Figure 2) to several algorithms [23,24]. Moreover, the models presented in this paper compromised between specificity and sensitivity to yield a fair prediction for both groups at the same time. Nevertheless, the performance of a prediction model depends on the data used for training and testing the algorithm and it is hard to have a fair comparison between several models when the data is different and is not available. It should be noted that our goal was to achieve a balanced specificity and sensitivity using simple and easy-to-measure features provided at the early stage of hospitalization, while some previously developed algorithms [25] employed features from physiological signals (e.g., electroencephalography) which are costly, computationally expensive, and hard to measure. More importantly, we examined interpretable machine learning algorithms (e.g., logistic regression) because for medical applications interpretability of the model is of the essence. Our results showed that by using a set of simple features and interpretable machine learning models trained on large data, it is possible to develop a reliable GOSE predictive model.
In terms of the parameters selected by the models, the three variables of “age,” “GCS motor response,” and “pupil reactivity” were found to be important by both feature selection models and were included in all the models; this finding is in line with previous works [11,16,17]. This result is consistent with the results provided in Figure 1. As shown, there is a shift in the average value between the GOSE categories for the two variables of “age” and “GCS motor response.” For the pupil reactivity, the majority (>76%) of cases with category brisk (B) or anisocoria (A) were “favorable” cases. SBP was included in the RF model which is consistent with clinical practice in which blood pressure assessment is part of treatment protocols for severe TBI patients. Besides, it was reported that low SBP before and during ICU intensive care unit admission are linked with high mortality rates in TBI patients. Overall, the parameters found by the RF are more consistent with clinical practice than the ones selected by SFS.
To conduct an in-depth analysis of the role of features (variables) in predicting GOSE, we measured the importance of the parameters included in the predictor models. The feature importance for RFs was estimated using the Gini importance-based method. The average values of impurity decrease in the RF’s structure were computed for all the features as the feature importance. Additionally, we divided the non-numeric parameters, such as pupil and sex, into 0/1 bit parameters according to their unique values. The result is provided in Figure 3. As shown, the “GCS motor response” is ranked as the most important feature. The value of importance of this parameter is > 0.3. The analysis also revealed that “pupil: F” is the second most important feature followed by age and BS. The results are in line with those provided in Figure 1. The box plots of the two variables “age” and “GCS motor response” indicate that there is a shift in the average values of these two variables between the group with “favorable” GOSE and “unfavorable” GOSE. For the categorical variable “pupil reactivity,” the majority (>76%) of cases with brisk pupillary response were “favorable” cases. Normally, pupils react to light briskly. However, patients with increased intracranial pressure may show sluggish or slow pupillary response. Fixed (nonreactive) pupils are in general associated with severe brain damage or high intracranial pressure value which is consistent with our results in Figure 1; approximately 65% of cases with fixed pupil activity belonged to the “unfavorable” category. In short, in-depth analysis of the effect of the variable in predicting GOSE revealed that the three parameters of “GCS motor response,” “pupil activity,” and “age” are the more important factors in predicting GOSE 6-month outcome in TBI patients.
This study showed that machine learning models when trained using a large data set could be used to predict the 6-month outcome in TBI patients using the parameters measured at admission. Our findings showed that the logistic regression model is superior to SVM and RF models because it is simple, more interpretable, and as accurate as the two more complicated models of SVM and RF. These promising results provide early evidence on the capability of machine learning models in predicting outcomes in TBI patients and ultimately assist physicians as possible decision support tools in diagnosing, optimizing treatment procedures, improving clinical outcomes, and offering substantial economic savings.
HIGHLIGHTS
▪ Machine learning-based models could be reliable in predicting the 6-month outcome in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients when they are trained using a large data set.
▪ Logistic regression model is superior to support vector machin and random forest models due to its simplicity and interpretability.
▪ Three variables of “age,” “Glasgow coma scale motor response,” and “pupillary reactivity” are important in predicting the 6-month outcome in TBI patients.
NOTES
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
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AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Conceptualization: HK, HP. Data curation: HK, AN. Formal analysis: MN, FD, HP. Funding acquisition: HP. Methodology: all authors. Project administration: HK. Visualization: MN, FD, HP. Writing–original draft: MN, FD, HP. Writing–review & editing: all authors.
Acknowledgments
This study was funded by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences under Grant number 97-01-38-16824.
The authors wish to thank Mr. Mohsen Ghofrani for his assistance in model development and editing this manuscript. We wish to thank Dr. Laleh Khojastehat of the Research Consultation Center of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences for her invaluable assistance in editing this manuscript.
Figure 1.Boxplot for the six variables age, blood sugar (BS) level, systolic blood pressure (SBP) on admission, GCS motor response, coagulation measures prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (PT-INR), and Rotterdam index in “favorable” and “unfavorable” groups. For the categorical variable “pupil activity”, for category anisocoria (A), brisk (B), and fixed (F) the proportion of favorable cases is calculated individually.
Figure 2.Mean receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and area under the curve (AUC) values for the prediction models developed for predicting unfavorable outcome after 6 months in the patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Values are presented as mean±standard error. LR: logistic regression; SVM: support vector machin; RF: random forest.
Figure 3.The relative importance of the variables used in random forest (RF)-based prediction model. The higher the value, the more important the feature is to the predicting model. GCS: Glasgow coma scale; F: fixed; B: brisk; BS: blood sugar; SPB: systolic blood pressure; PT-INR: prothrombin time-international normalized ratio.
Table 1.Baseline patient characteristics
Variable |
Value |
Sex (male:female) |
1,414:268 |
Pupil reactivity |
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Anisocoria |
121 |
Brisk |
1,301 |
Fixed |
260 |
N (unable to exam) |
0 |
NA |
161 |
Final GOSE |
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1 (Death) |
365 |
2 |
44 |
3 |
20 |
4 |
41 |
5 |
70 |
6 |
107 |
7 |
328 |
SBP |
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Mean (range) |
128.9 (40–250) |
NA |
338 |
BS |
|
Mean (range) |
164.7 (53–681) |
NA |
100 |
PT-INR |
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Mean (range) |
1.3 (0.8–16.2) |
NA |
190 |
Age (yr) |
|
Mean (range) |
39.4 (14–96) |
NA |
14 |
GCS motor |
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Mean (range) |
4.7 (1–6) |
Rotterdam |
|
Mean (range) |
2.5 (1–6) |
NA |
131 |
Table 2.Variables (features) selected using the feature selection methods examined
Technique |
Random forest |
Stepwise |
Variable |
Age, GCS motor response, pupil reactivity, BS level |
Age, GCS motor response, pupil reactivity, Rotterdam index, PT-INR |
Table 3.Performance of the machine learning-based prediction models developed for predicting unfavorable outcome in severe TBI patients
Model |
Accuracy |
Sensitivity |
Specificity |
Logistic regression |
0.78±0.01 |
0.78±0.01 |
0.78±0.03 |
Random forest |
0.78±0.01 |
0.79±0.01 |
0.78±0.03 |
Support vector machines |
0.78±0.01 |
0.78±0.01 |
0.78±0.04 |
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