Cardiopulmonary resuscitation of infants at birth: predictable or unpredictable?

Article information

Acute Crit Care. 2022;37(3):438-453
Publication date (electronic) : 2022 August 29
doi : https://doi.org/10.4266/acc.2021.01501
1Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Neonatology, Yas Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3PhD Candidate in Reproductive Health Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Research Center, Institute of Family Health, Tehran, Iran
4Department of Advanced Technologies, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran
Corresponding author: Azam Orooji Department of Advanced Technologies, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd 9417694811, Iran Tel: +98-5831513011, E-mail: a.orooji@nkums.ac.ir
Received 2021 October 22; Revised 2022 February 2; Accepted 2022 February 17.

Abstract

Background

Anticipating the need for at-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in neonates is very important and complex. Timely identification and rapid CPR for neonates in the delivery room significantly reduce mortality and other neurological disabilities. The aim of this study was to create a prediction system for identifying the need for at-birth CPR in neonates based on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms.

Methods

In this study, 3,882 neonatal medical records were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 60 risk factors was extracted, and five ML algorithms of J48, Naïve Bayesian, multilayer perceptron, support vector machine (SVM), and random forest were compared to predict the need for at-birth CPR in neonates. Two types of resuscitation were considered: basic and advanced CPR. Using five feature selection algorithms, features were ranked based on importance, and important risk factors were identified using the ML algorithms.

Results

To predict the need for at-birth CPR in neonates, SVM using all risk factors reached 88.43% accuracy and F-measure of 88.4%, while J48 using only the four first important features reached 90.89% accuracy and F-measure of 90.9%. The most important risk factors were gestational age, delivery type, presentation, and mother’s addiction.

Conclusions

The proposed system can be useful in predicting the need for CPR in neonates in the delivery room.

INTRODUCTION

Annually, around 1 million neonates worldwide die because of birth asphyxia [1]. According to the World Health Organization guideline on basic newborn resuscitation, although around one-fourth of neonatal mortality is due to birth asphyxia, effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the moment of childbirth can prevent a large proportion approximately 30% of these deaths [2,3]. Most neonates enter from intrauterine to extrauterine life with no special assistance. However, less than 1% of all neonates [4] and around 0.1% of term neonates require advanced CPR at the moment of birth [5,6]. These statistics are much higher for preterm infants; 6%–7% of preterm neonates (gestational age [GA] <32 weeks) [7] and around 6%–10% of very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight infants require advanced CPR, i.e., chest compression with or without injecting epinephrine [8]. Many studies have been performed on CPR consequences, and mortality, neurological morbidity, neurodevelopmental impairment, lower motor scores, and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) are more prevalent among preterm infants who have received CPR [7,9,10]. Thus, timely identification and rapid CPR of neonates in the delivery room can reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity [8].

Currently, at-birth CPR is suggested for neonates with asystole, profound bradycardia (heart rate <60 per minutes), and pulseless electrical activity despite effective ventilation. Absence of heart beat or other vital signs, which is recorded as zero APGAR (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration), can also be used as a guideline for decision-making on beginning CPR [9]. Different studies have shown that the severity scoring systems have many limitations, and systems based on Machine Learning (ML) have better performance in prediction [11,12]. Accordingly, considering the importance of at-birth CPR, use of ML-based systems can be useful for anticipating the need for neonatal CPR. Application of ML algorithms in medicine, especially in neonatal medicine, has shown that these techniques have suitable performance in prediction and diagnosis.

Nevertheless, only a few studies have dealt with CPR in neonates, and most of these have a small set of samples and risk factors because of the challenges in data collection [13-17]. The aim of most studies is to identify the risk factors affecting the need for at-birth CPR [13,14,18-20]. Further, most studies have dealt with neonatal CPR in the Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), although few of them have addressed at-birth CPR, due to examine at birth CPR, only antepartum factors should be considered. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on predicting the need for at-birth CPR in neonates using ML algorithms and considering a comprehensive set of maternal and prenatal risk factors. Accordingly, our aim is to design an ML-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to predict the need for at-birth CPR in neonates based on maternal and fetal factors.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

This retrospective study was conducted based on maternal, prenatal, and fetal data, with the aim of predicting the need for at-birth general/basic/advanced CPR in neonates. To develop the prediction model, ML algorithms were used. Also, the models were evaluated to examine the performance and determine the best model. Details related to the data, setting, method of development, and evaluation of the prediction models are presented in this section. All participants’ parents provided written consent before loading the data into the registry.

Data Source

The data were obtained through a neonatal registry system in Valiasr Hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) includes the information related to all neonates hospitalized in the NICU of Valiasr Hospital that has a grade of B3. The data related to the mother and fetus are entered into the registry by the person in charge. In this retrospective study, the data available in this registry were retrieved anonymously from March 2016 to March 2020. Consent forms were filled out by the father or mother of the infant before entering the data into the registry. Participant data were considered confidential, and no extra cost was imposed on our participants. The study was approved by the TUMS institutional review board (approval ID: IR.TUMS.VCR.REC.1398.591).

Identification of Neonatal CPR Risk Factors

Risk factors are identified according to the sixth edition of the Textbook of neonatal resuscitation [21] and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) guidelines [22]. Three neonatologists were asked to review the list of risk factors and add any factors not listed. Infertility information, sex, and delivery order of any appropriate infant in multiple gestation were added. According to experts' opinions, some variables (such as fetal problems and maternal chronic disease) were divided into smaller and more specialized subclasses. However, several identified risk factors were not recorded in the neonatal registry of Valisasr Hospital and were excluded. Figure 1 shows the process of risk factor identification.

Figure 1.

Identification of the neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation risk factors. ART: assisted reproductive techniques.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

All neonates hospitalized in the NICU from March 2016 to March 2020 were included in this study. Post-delivery data such as APGAR score, height, and weight of the neonate were excluded.

Definition

In this study, delivery room CPR and CPR immediately after birth were examined. CPR refers to any activity performed to simulate the cardiorespiratory activity of neonates who met the conditions of CPR according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines [23,24]. These activities can be categorized into two groups: basic CPR (use of oxygen mask, nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), and positive pressure ventilation (PPV) and advanced CPR (basic CPR plus epinephrine injection, chest compression, and intubation) [25]. In this study, basic, advanced, and general CPR were considered separately. The neonatal CPR protocol used in Iran is the newest version of the neonatal resuscitation program (NRP) developed by the AAP and the American Heart Association in 2020 [26]. Currently, the Ministry of Health is in charge of issuing NRP certificates. In our NICU, CPR procedures are performed by neonatologists, pediatric residents (second-year residents onwards), or neonatology fellows with NRP certification.

Steroid administration is considered the use of any type of fluorinated corticosteroid. Chorioamnionitis is defined by a maternal inflammatory response with neutrophilic infiltration of the chorionic plate or membranes with or without fetal inflammatory response [27]. Prenatal care adequacy is defined on the basis of the Kotelchuck Index [28]. Levels of “inadequate” and “intermediate” are considered as “no” outcomes, and “adequate” and “adequate plus” levels as “yes” results in the dataset used in this study.

Data Extraction and Preprocessing

After removing all identifiers, the data were extracted from the registry as a .sav file and classified into one of six groups: (1) Gestational risk factors: prenatal care, chorioamnionitis, steroid administration, and magnesium sulfate administration; (2) Maternal risk factors: age, hypertension (chronic, gestational, eclampsia), diabetes (chronic, gestational), addiction, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), chronic disease history, history of abortion (less than 20 weeks), and intrauterine fetal death; (3) Female infertility: use of assisted reproductive techniques (ART), type of ART; (4) Accreta status: decollement/placenta abruption, vasa previa, previa, placenta accreta; (5) Fetal data: gender, GA, rank, and number of infants; intrauterine growth restriction; congenital problems diagnosed before birth; fetal hydrops; (6) Delivery risk factors: mode of delivery, prelabor rupture of membranes (PRoM), duration of PRoM, presentation, cord status, thick meconium, amniotic fluid status, and fetal heart rate during delivery.

The outcome variable is whether CPR is performed for a baby in the delivery room. The general, basic, and advanced resuscitation levels are considered separately as outcomes. The data set contained approximately 7% missing values, which were imputed by the multiple imputation method.

Prediction Model Construction

When a study is associated with a large number of interdependent factors and there is a need to categorize records into two classes, one of the simplest and most effective methods is the binary classifier [29]. Therefore, to develop the prediction model for the need for at-birth general/basic/advanced CPR, ML algorithms of J48, multilayer perceptron, support vector machine (SVM), Naïve Bayesian (NB) and random forest were used. All algorithms were performed with the original data set. Next, Feature Selection (FS) techniques were used to determine the importance of each attribute in predicting type of CPR. As a result, only relevant attributes were involved in the data mining process, which improved predictive accuracy and reduced processing time. For this purpose, filter FS algorithms including relief and correlation-based feature selection (CFS) and wrapper methods using classifiers SVM, J48, and NB were used (Table 1). These methods consider feature dependencies as well as predictive ability of attributes. As a result, feature subsets with less inter-correlation but high correlation to the outcome are preferred [30-33]. Then, the risk factors were organized based on the total importance resulting from implementing the five FS algorithms. Based on the ordered list of variables, various data subsets were created, and ML algorithms were implemented on both the original data set and these data subsets.

Characteristics of FS methods

Statistical Analysis and Performance Measurements

For continuous data, mean, range, and standard deviation were reported, while frequency and percentage were reported for discrete data. To investigate the distribution of variables in the two groups (neonates receiving CPR vs. those not receiving CPR), independent samples t-test, chi-square, Fisher exact, and Mann-Whitney tests were used. The significance levels for all tests were set at P<0.05. All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS ver. 20.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). After analyzing the role of risk factors in predicting the outcome and developing the prediction models for need for at-birth general/basic/advanced CPR, the performance of the developed models was evaluated based on accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and F-measure criteria as well as the 10-fold cross validation method. The role of variables was analyzed using the FS algorithms in WEKA software. Development and assessment of models were performed using R v3.4.1 (R Foundation, Vienna, Austria).

Clinical Decision Support System Design

After selecting the best algorithm for predicting the need for delivery room CPR in neonates, the system user interface was designed based on the best prediction model for the need for at-birth CPR in Visual Studio platform 2015.

RESULTS

A total of 3,882 infants with an average birth weight of 2,500.81 g (standard deviation [SD], 889.107 g; range, 400–5,250 g) was included in the study according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria Figure 2. Of these, 2,011 (51.8%) received delivery room CPR. Overall, 1,909 infants (49.18%) received basic CPR, and 510 (13.14%) received advanced CPR. The frequency of CPR types was as follows: nasal CPAP (n=1,120, p=28.8%), PPV (n=891, p=22.9%), oxygen mask (n=723, p=18.6%), intubation (n=494, p=12.7%), chest compression (n=86, p=2.2%), and epinephrine injection (n=68, p=1.7%). Data are shown in Table 2.

Figure 2.

Flowchart of patient selection. NICU: neonatal intensive care unit; CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Descriptive statistics of risk factors

To develop a prediction model for need for at-birth general/basic/advanced CPR, ML algorithms were used. The results obtained from applying these algorithms to the original data set are shown in Figure 3. Based on all performance criteria, the SVM method demonstrated the best performance for predicting the need for at-birth general and basic CPR (Figure 3A and B). The J48 method demonstrated comparable results. As in Figure 3C, the performance of the J48 technique was better than that of the other models in predicting advanced CPR. However, the NB method had the highest specificity.

Figure 3.

Performance metrics of Machine Learning algorithms for original dataset. (A) At-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prediction in general, (B) at-birth basic CPR prediction, (C) at-birth advanced CPR prediction. MLP: multilayer perceptron; SVM: support vector machine; RF: random forest; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

In the next step of simulation, FS algorithms were employed. For this, the two filter FS algorithms of relief and CFS were implemented with the three wrapper methods of SVM, J48, and NB. Then, for each risk factor, the total importance resulting from implementing the five FS algorithms was calculated. The rank resulting from the FS algorithms as well as the average rank for each attribute in predicting the types of CPR are presented in Table 3. The average rank was calculated using the following relation, where ri represents the rank of variable in the ith feature selection algorithm.

Rank of attributes based on five feature selection methods

Average rank: (r1+r2+… +r5)/5

According to Table 3, GA is the most important risk factor for predicting all types of CPR. Also, the average ranks of "maternal kidney disease," "thyroid disorders," and "decollement/placenta abruption" were lowest in predicting general, basic, and advanced CPR, respectively. For each type of resuscitation, the variables were sorted based on average rank, and then 20 feature subsets were created, including 1, 2, …,10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, and 60 important variables, respectively. In other words, the first group included the most important feature, the second one included the two most important features and so on. According to these subsets, 20 data subsets were created, and ML algorithms were implemented on these data subsets. Each time, one type of CPR was considered as the outcome. Figures 4 and 5 reveal the results of the ML algorithms with the 20 data subsets obtained from FS.

Figure 4.

Accuracy of Machine Learning algorithms for 20 feature subsets. (A) At-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prediction in general, (B) at-birth basic CPR prediction, (C) at-birth advanced CPR prediction. MLP: multilayer perceptron; SVM: support vector machine; RF: random forest; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

Figure 5.

F-measure of Machine Learning algorithms for 20 feature subsets. (A) At-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prediction in general, (B) at-birth basic CPR prediction, (C) at-birth advanced CPR prediction. MLP: multilayer perceptron; SVM: support vector machine; RF: random forest; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

According to Figures 4 and 5, J48 using the four first important variables with an accuracy of 90.89% and an F-measure of 90.9% produced the best results. GA, delivery type, presentation, and maternal addiction were the most important features in general CPR prediction. J48 also achieved the best results in predicting basic CPR on the basis of the 10 most significant variables: GA, delivery type, prenatal care, decollement, addiction, amniotic fluid, other chronic diseases, macrosomia, infant rank, and fetal hydrops. To predict the need for advanced CPR, J48 achieved the best accuracy of 90.97% using the six most important variables: GA, infertility, gestational diabetes, kidney diseases, HIV, and PRoM. However, according to F-measure, the NB method with the three variables of GA, infertility, and gestational diabetes had the best performance. Given that only 510 infants received advanced resuscitation, the data subsets were unbalanced. Therefore, the SVM method can categorize all items in the majority group (non-CPR), and the value of the F-measure could not be calculated (Figure 5C).

The best results of every algorithm are shown in Table 4. Comparing the results shown in Figure 3 and Table 4, we found that use of the FS algorithms in general CPR prediction caused 4.88% increased accuracy and 5.12% increased F-measure on average. Further, the use of the FS method in basic and advanced CPR prediction models increased mean accuracy by 3.05% and 3.34%, respectively, and mean F-measure by 1.49% and 1.26%.

The best performance of each ML methods on various feature subsets

Graphical user interface of the proposed CDSS for CPR prediction was designed in Visual Studio 2015, based on the three best models which were developed on the basis of J48 (Figure 6). After entering the data, all three prediction models (general/basic/advanced CPR prediction models) were executed, and the final output was calculated by OR combination of the output of each model.

Figure 6.

User interface of the proposed system. CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

DISCUSSION

This paper dealt with a prediction system for the need for neonatal CPR immediately after birth in the delivery room. To achieve a system with proper performance, various ML algorithms were compared with different sets of risk factors to identify the best system and the most effective factors for predicting type of CPR. According to the obtained results, to predict the need for at-birth CPR in general, SVM using all risk factors reached an accuracy of 88.43% and an F-measure of 88.4%, while J48 using the first four most important variables reached an accuracy of 90.89% and an F- measure of 90.9%. For basic CPR prediction, the highest accuracy and F-measure were achieved for the SVM model at 87.64% and 87.4%, respectively. After applying the FS methods and selecting the 10 most important features, the best fit model was J48, with an accuracy of 88.92% and an F-measure of 88.9%. Among the ML algorithms, the best model to predict advanced CPR was J48, with an accuracy of 90.15% and an F-measure of 87.5%. According to the experiment performed on the six most important features, J48 had the highest accuracy of 90.89%, while NB using the three most significant features achieved the best performance with an F-measure of 88.9%.

Feature ranking was performed using five FS algorithms, and the most effective risk factors were identified for the general/basic/advanced CPR prediction. Among all variables, only GA was significant in all types of CPR prediction models. Delivery type, presentation, and addiction are other important factors in general CPR prediction. Also, the most significant risk factors of basic CPR prediction were GA, delivery type, prenatal care, placental abruption, mother’s addiction, amniotic fluid status, maternal chronic disease history, macrosomia, rank of infant, and fetal hydrops. Moreover, GA, infertility, gestational diabetes, history of kidney disease, HIV, and PRoM were the most important risk factors for predicting the need for advanced CPR.

According to the sixth edition of the Textbook of neonatal resuscitation [21] and the ILCOR guidelines [22], the risk factors of GA, delivery type, presentation, macrosomia, prenatal care, PRoM, history of kidney disease, multiple gestation, fetal hydrops, amniotic fluid status, diabetes, placental abruption, and maternal chronic disease history all can contribute to an increased need for at-birth CPR in neonates. In a study by Afjeh et al. [18], risk factors affecting CPR in neonates were examined, whereby placental abruption, multiple gestation, delivery type, and infertility were identified as the risk factors that contribute to increasing the need for delivery room CPR. Also, a study by Jiang et al. found that diabetes, hypertension, and delivery type affect the need for CPR in neonates [19]. In our study, HIV was identified as an effective risk factor in predicting advanced CPR. To the best of our knowledge, the association between maternal HIV infection and need for neonatal CPR has not previously been reported. However, many previous studies have shown that maternal HIV infection is associated with small for gestational age, preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth [34-37]. Our results revealed that macrosomia is one of the most important risk factors for predicting the need for basic resuscitation. However, while association between macrosomia and CPR was not found in the literature, previous studies showed that macrosomia is associated with shoulder dystocia, perinatal asphyxia, diabetes or gestational diabetes, and prolonged labor [38,39], factors that all play vital roles in increasing the need for at-birth resuscitation risk.

The prevalence of mortality, neurodevelopmental impairment, respiratory support at 28 days, days to full oral feeds, and length of stay are very high among neonates who have undergone at-birth CPR [9,40]. Even the National Institute of Child Health and Developmental Neonatal Research reported that CPR in the delivery room is a prognostic factor for morbidity and later complications up to 18 months of age [41]. Thus, the healthcare system should be able to better predict which neonates require CPR before delivery, so that the neonatal resuscitation team is present in time [42]. Previous studies have shown that antenatal transfer of high-risk mothers reduces pre-discharge neonatal mortality [43,44]. Thus, predicting the need for at-birth CPR can be very effective, as it increases the preparation of the neonatal resuscitation team and provides the possibility of consultation with the family before delivery [42]. Therefore, according to the results obtained from this study, use of the proposed system for predicting the need for at-birth CPR in neonates will greatly reduce the adverse outcomes in childbirth with more preparation time for the CPR team.

In addition, coordination between the CPR team and obstetricians can lead to reduced adverse events in the delivery room and improve overall care [42]. A study by Draper et al. [45] examined intrapartum deaths in the UK and found that around 25% of mortalities were due to lack of suitable communication between the multidisciplinary team members during delivery. Thus, the proposed system can be used as an infant pre-resuscitation guide to ensure coordination between the CPR team and obstetricians.

Despite the importance of CPR prediction, very few studies have dealt with neonatal CPR, most of which have addressed CPR in the NICU [13-16], which have small numbers of samples and few risk factors because of challenges in data collection [13-17]. However, in this study, in addition to considering a sample of suitable size, attempts were made to capture all fetal and maternal risk factors mentioned in credible guidelines, which also had demonstrated their importance in previous studies.

The main limitation of this study, like most previous studies, was that the data related to only one center were examined. Thus, it is suggested to conduct studies with a more diverse sample extracted from multiple centers with different grades of NICU. Comparison of the results can be useful in identifying significant risk factors affecting the need for CPR and its prediction. Also, the included population was all neonates hospitalized in the NICU, which is a very selective high-risk group of neonates who had a very high incidence of resuscitation. This limited the generalizability of this dataset to the usual situation in the delivery room.

KEY MESSAGES

▪ In the delivery room, timely neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could significantly reduce mortality and other neurological disabilities.

▪ Use of Machine Learning-based systems for predicting the need for at-birth CPR can be useful.

Notes

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Conceptualization: MRZ, AO. Data curation: MRZ, RM. Formal analysis: AO. Funding acquisition: MRZ. Methodology: AO. Project administration: MRZ. Visualization: RM. Writing–original draft: AO. Writing–review & editing: MRZ, AO.

Acknowledgements

This study was supported by Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) and Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Research Center. We acknowledge their kind supports in this study.

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Figure 1.

Identification of the neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation risk factors. ART: assisted reproductive techniques.

Figure 2.

Flowchart of patient selection. NICU: neonatal intensive care unit; CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Figure 3.

Performance metrics of Machine Learning algorithms for original dataset. (A) At-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prediction in general, (B) at-birth basic CPR prediction, (C) at-birth advanced CPR prediction. MLP: multilayer perceptron; SVM: support vector machine; RF: random forest; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

Figure 4.

Accuracy of Machine Learning algorithms for 20 feature subsets. (A) At-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prediction in general, (B) at-birth basic CPR prediction, (C) at-birth advanced CPR prediction. MLP: multilayer perceptron; SVM: support vector machine; RF: random forest; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

Figure 5.

F-measure of Machine Learning algorithms for 20 feature subsets. (A) At-birth cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prediction in general, (B) at-birth basic CPR prediction, (C) at-birth advanced CPR prediction. MLP: multilayer perceptron; SVM: support vector machine; RF: random forest; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

Figure 6.

User interface of the proposed system. CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Table 1.

Characteristics of FS methods

Type of FS method Evaluation algorithm Weka class name Parameters tuning
Filter Attribute evaluation using RELIEF ReliefFAttributeEval
Correlation-based feature selection evaluation CfsSubsetEval
Wrapper Subset evaluation by using a user-specified classifier and separate held-out test set ClassifierSubsetEval Classifier=SVM
Subset evaluation by using a user-specified classifier and internal cross-validation WrapperSubsetEval- weka.classifiers.trees.J48 Classifier=J48
Subset evaluation by using a user-specified classifier and internal cross-validation WrapperSubsetEval-weka.classifiers.bayes.NaiveBayes Classifier=NB

FS: feature selection; SVM: support vector machine; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of risk factors

Variable Total (n=3,882) CPR (n=2,011) Non-CPR (n=1,871) P-value (CPR vs. non-CPR group)
Gestational risk factor
 Prenatal care 3,426 (88.25) 1837 1589 <0.001
 Chorioamnionitis 71 (1.83) 37 34 0.958
 Steroid administration 933 (24.03) 647 286 <0.001
 Magnesium sulfate administration 333 (8.58) 238 95 <0.001
Maternal risk factor
 Hypertension 184 (4.74) 113 71 0.008
 Gestational hypertension 654 (16.85) 379 275 0.001
 Diabetes 105 (2.71) 53 52 0.783
 Gestational diabetes 600 (15.46) 317 283 0.583
 Mother addiction 63 (1.62) 22 41 0.007
 Mother HIV 28 (0.72) 14 14 0.848
 Cardiac disease 304 (7.83) 142 162 0.064
 Blood disease 187 (4.82) 98 89 0.866
 Kidney disease 63 (1.62) 33 30 0.926
 Thyroid disorders 0.274
  Hyperthyroidism 15 (0.39) 8 7
  Hypothyroidism 694 (17.88) 344 350
  Thyroidectomy 2 (0.05) 0 2
 Respiratory disease 28 (0.72) 15 13 0.851
 Mental disease 21 (0.54) 11 10 0.958
 Infectious disease 16 (0.41) 8 8 0.885
 Brain diseases 62 (1.6) 37 25 0.211
 Cancer disease 33 (0.85) 19 14 0.505
 Skin disease 7 (0.18) 3 4 0.635
 Liver disease 63 (1.62) 32 31 0.872
 Autoimmune disease 64 (1.65) 32 32 0.771
 Uterus disease 41 (1.06) 23 18 0.580
 Digestive disease 34 (0.88) 15 19 0.368
 Eye disease 4 (0.10) 2 2 0.942
 Other chronic disease 12 (0.31) 9 3 0.107
 Pre-eclampsia 0.192
  Eclampsia 8 (0.21) 4 4
  Preeclampsia 198 (5.10) 115 83
 Abortion history 17 (0.44) 9 8 0.925
 Intrauterine fetal death Infertility 10 (0.26) 3 7 0.167
 Female infertility 214 (5.51) 146 68 <0.001
 ART 144 (3.71) 94 50 0.001
  Drug 26 (0.67) 23 3 <0.001
  IUI 18 (0.46) 9 9
  IVF 100 (2.58) 62 38
Accreta status
 Decollement/placenta abruption 41 (1.06) 28 13 0.034
 Vasa previa 1 (0.03) 1 0 0.335
 Previa 113 (2.91) 62 51 0.508
 Placenta accreta 163 (4.2) 94 69 0.126
Fetal data
 Number of infants <0.001
  1 3,407 (87.76) 1678 1729
  2 419 (10.79) 293 126
  3 55 (1.42) 39 16
  4 1 (0.03) 1 0
 Sex 0.396
  Female 1,730 (44.57) 881 849
  Male 2,146 (55.28) 1128 1018
  Ambiguous genitalia 6 (0.15) 2 4
 Rank of infant <0.001
  1 3,628 (93.46) 1838 1790
  2 235 (6.05) 160 75
  3 19 (0.49) 13 6
 IUGR 223 (5.75) 134 89 0.011
 Tumor 14 (0.36) 8 6 0.689
 Genetic problems/anomaly 18 (0.46) 13 5 0.082
 Macrosomia 19 (0.49) 3 16 0.002
 Cardiac problem 31 (0.8) 16 15 0.983
 Surgery (defect of the abdominal) 54a (1.39) 24 30 0.276
 Blood problem 4 (0.10) 2 2 0.942
 Pulmonary problem 12 (0.31) 9 3 0.107
 Brain problem 25 (0.64) 13 12 0.984
 Fetal hydrops 12 (0.31) 10 2 0.029
 Other problem (fetus) 6 (0.15) 3 3 0.930
Delivery risk factor
 Delivery type <0.001
  Cesarean 3,617 (93.17) 1923 1694
  Vaginal 265 (6.83) 88 177
 PRoM 549 (14.14) 304 245 0.071
 Presentation 0.073
  Breech 106 (2.73) 42 64
  Transverse 6 (0.15) 2 4
  Hand 1 (0.03) 1 0
  Normal 3,769 (97.09) 1966 1803
 Cord 0.240
  Absent Doppler 27 (0.69) 18 9
  Cord prolapse 4 (0.10) 3 1
  Reverse 1 (0.03) 1 0
  No 3,850 (99.18) 1989 1861
 Thick meconium 24 (0.62) 16 8 0.144
 Amniotic fluid 0.041
  Oligohydramnios 43 (1.11) 18 25
  Polyhydramnios 26 (0.67) 8 18
  Normal 3,813 (98.22) 1985 1828
 Fetal heart condition 0.395
  Arrhythmia 1 (0.03) 0 1
  BPP 2 (0.05) 1 1
  Bradycardia 6 (0.15) 5 1
  Tachycardia 10 (0.26) 5 5
  Decreased FHR 269 (6.93) 148 121
  Fetal distress 8 (0.21) 6 2
  Sinusoidal 1 (0.03) 1 0
  PVC 1 (0.03) 1 0
  No  3,584 (92.31) 1844 1740
Continuous risk factor
 Maternal age (yr) 30.89±5.9 30.85±3.81 30.94±3.68 0.474
 Gestational age (day) 247.15±25.17 237.19 ±26.35 257.85 ±18.38 <0.001
 PRoM (hr) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) <0.001

Values are presented as number (%), mean±standard deviation (range), or median (interquartile range).

CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; ART: assisted reproductive technique; IUI: intrauterine insemination; IVF: in vitro fertilization; IUGR: intrauterine growth restriction; PRoM: prelabor rupture of membranes; BPP: biophysical profile; FHR: fetal heart rate; PVC: premature ventricular contraction.

a

Including colonic atresia, diaphragmatic hernia, duodenal atresia, esophageal atresia, gastroschisis, internal hernia, intestinal atresia, jejunal atresia, omphalocele.

Table 3.

Rank of attributes based on five feature selection methods

Variable name General CPR
Basic CPR
Advanced CPR
Relief CFS Wrapper (SVM) Wrapper (NB) Wrapper (J48) Averaged rank Relief CFS Wrapper (SVM) Wrapper (NB) Wrapper (J48) Averaged rank Relief CFS Wrapper (SVM) Wrapper (NB) Wrapper (J48) Averaged rank
1 Abortion 30 43 48 13 10 28.8 48 48 50 36 19 40.2 55 45 53 17 11 36.2
2 Addiction 12 12 7 14 19 12.8 10 16 26 17 20 17.8 27 53 2 15 24 24.2
3 Amniotic fluid 17 10 8 42 27 20.8 15 11 47 18 3 18.8 30 24 38 31 31 30.8
4 ART name 23 22 49 50 47 38.2 16 30 13 44 34 27.4 18 23 4 55 52 30.4
5 ART use 37 59 16 56 30 39.6 33 59 10 56 26 36.8 17 56 6 56 42 35.4
6 Autoimmune 60 55 51 35 29 46 59 52 58 40 23 46.4 38 39 39 33 48 39.4
7 Blood diseases 18 47 38 36 34 34.6 57 46 53 19 29 40.8 23 37 5 8 54 25.4
8 Blood problems 43 37 45 22 12 31.8 46 26 39 26 11 29.6 48 14 46 16 20 28.8
9 Brain diseases 56 33 12 9 43 30.6 20 51 49 24 32 35.2 28 46 11 28 34 29.4
10 Brain problem 46 42 56 23 40 41.4 42 28 42 7 33 30.4 43 26 42 47 36 38.8
11 Cancer 35 38 23 38 49 36.6 34 41 29 37 53 38.8 33 17 30 3 25 21.6
12 Cardiac diseases 14 24 11 52 51 30.4 17 23 25 43 41 29.8 4 7 7 53 49 24.0
13 Cardiac problems 36 54 52 24 37 40.6 35 47 41 28 44 39 41 50 36 30 17 34.8
14 Chorioamnionitis 15 58 53 27 26 35.8 12 45 28 9 17 22.2 29 10 24 24 35 24.4
15 Cord 39 19 28 51 16 30.6 32 14 18 51 24 27.8 35 6 47 37 29 30.8
16 Decollement/placenta abruption 27 11 31 4 14 17.4 28 21 17 4 14 16.8 45 42 60 44 45 47.2
17 Delivery type 5 4 4 2 2 3.4 3 4 12 2 2 4.6 10 44 58 27 51 38.0
18 Diabetes 55 56 57 15 18 40.2 18 50 51 16 42 35.4 22 51 29 5 53 32.0
19 Digestive diseases 38 41 24 29 33 33 29 36 45 15 30 31 54 43 51 20 19 37.4
20 Pre-eclampsia 54 29 42 16 58 39.8 54 34 19 35 57 39.8 12 8 50 19 56 29.0
21 Eye diseases 33 32 37 12 7 24.2 38 38 44 21 8 29.8 53 16 48 11 6 26.8
22 FHR 44 8 54 54 54 42.8 44 10 23 50 36 32.6 11 12 44 29 33 25.8
23 GA 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 19 1 1 4.6
24 Gestational diabetes 7 51 18 44 56 35.2 7 58 59 32 48 40.8 2 5 28 35 28 19.6
25 Genetic problems/anomaly 26 36 33 11 25 26.2 24 20 20 27 35 25.2 36 47 34 34 13 32.8
26 Gestational hypertension 9 14 25 10 59 23.4 13 17 6 54 58 29.6 7 31 26 21 60 29.0
27 HIV 58 45 50 20 28 40.2 55 49 57 13 21 39 34 38 3 23 7 21.0
28 Hydrops Fetal 32 16 21 6 15 18 36 15 21 10 27 21.8 56 33 9 41 38 35.4
29 Hypertension 16 17 17 40 57 29.4 49 22 9 48 51 35.8 16 52 25 26 44 32.6
30 Infant number 8 3 5 58 45 23.8 5 3 3 58 46 23 15 58 22 60 32 37.4
31 Infant rank 11 15 15 59 31 26.2 9 12 5 59 22 21.4 25 59 18 58 37 39.4
32 Infectious diseases 47 35 40 19 5 29.2 25 37 27 20 12 24.2 58 28 10 13 21 26.0
33 Infertility 13 13 19 57 48 30 14 6 7 57 37 24.2 21 3 15 2 2 8.6
34 IUFD 48 21 10 30 9 23.6 50 24 37 38 10 31.8 50 11 55 14 8 27.6
35 IUGR 20 30 14 41 38 28.6 22 35 11 47 49 32.8 19 22 1 52 47 28.2
36 Kidney diseases 52 50 58 39 50 49.8 40 54 56 41 28 43.8 37 35 8 12 12 20.8
37 Liver diseases 45 46 59 32 17 39.8 27 33 43 39 25 33.4 44 29 32 32 40 35.4
38 Macrosomia 22 18 9 3 24 15.2 19 13 32 3 31 19.6 39 21 33 4 18 23.0
39 Magnesium sulfate 3 5 60 55 46 33.8 21 5 4 55 56 28.2 26 2 21 59 58 33.2
40 Maternal age 21 60 22 53 22 35.6 11 60 33 53 38 39 13 57 56 9 30 33.0
41 Mental diseases 57 52 43 8 29 37.8 56 43 40 6 18 32.6 60 32 12 40 3 29.4
42 Other chronic diseases (mother) 29 23 32 5 6 19 31 19 24 8 13 19 49 19 57 6 15 29.2
43 Other problems (fetus) 49 48 47 34 11 37.8 51 57 46 31 9 38.8 57 25 45 18 10 31.0
44 Placenta accreta 51 31 26 28 36 34.4 58 29 15 30 47 35.8 14 54 49 46 57 44.0
45 Prenatal care 6 6 3 47 39 20.2 4 8 8 11 45 15.2 3 15 23 43 46 26.0
46 Presentation 10 7 6 17 8 9.6 6 9 52 42 4 22.6 20 9 41 25 41 27.2
47 Previa 25 53 39 45 32 38.8 26 56 31 46 50 41.8 24 41 54 48 50 43.4
48 PRoM 24 57 20 49 52 40.4 23 55 14 45 54 38.2 5 55 17 7 23 21.4
49 PRoM (hr) 50 9 30 60 44 38.6 45 7 16 60 40 33.6 52 60 16 54 4 37.2
50 Pulmonary problems 34 26 35 31 35 32.2 39 27 22 29 43 32 42 40 43 42 26 38.6
51 Respiratory diseases 42 44 41 21 41 37.8 52 44 48 23 39 41.2 40 20 14 36 14 24.8
52 Sex 4 28 46 43 55 35.2 8 31 60 33 59 38.2 6 30 20 39 43 27.6
53 Skin diseases 53 49 36 25 3 33.2 53 53 35 34 6 36.2 59 48 31 10 5 30.6
54 Steroids administration 2 2 2 46 60 22.4 2 2 2 52 55 22.6 8 13 27 57 55 32.0
55 Surgery 28 34 13 18 23 23.2 30 32 38 5 7 22.4 32 4 37 51 39 32.6
56 Thick meconium 31 25 29 37 21 28.6 37 40 34 14 16 28.2 47 36 40 45 27 39.0
57 Thyroid disorders 19 20 55 48 53 39 60 18 54 49 60 48.2 9 18 13 50 59 29.8
58 Tumors 40 40 44 26 13 32.6 41 39 55 22 15 34.4 46 34 35 49 16 36.0
59 Uterus diseases 59 39 34 33 42 41.4 43 42 30 25 52 38.4 31 49 52 22 22 35.2
60 Vasa previa 41 27 27 7 4 21.2 47 25 36 12 5 25 51 27 59 38 9 36.8

CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CFS: correlation-based feature selection; SVM: support vector machine; NB: Naïve Bayesian; ART: assisted reproductive techniques; FHR: fetal heart rate; GA: gestational age; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; IUFD: intrauterine fetal death; IUGR: intrauterine growth restriction; PRoM: prelabor rupture of membranes.

Table 4.

The best performance of each ML methods on various feature subsets

ML method General CPR
Basic CPR
Advanced CPR
Accuracy F-measure Number of selected features Accuracy F-measure Number of selected features Accuracy F-measure Number of selected features
MLP 90.76 90.8 3 88.51 88.5 5 90.71 88.2 6, 2a
J48 90.89 90.9 4 88.92 88.9 10 90.97 88.5 6, 2a
RF 90.24 90.3 3 87.43 87.4 1 89.76 87.7 10
SVM 90.42 90.3 8 88.23 87.9 8 89.86 83.7 1, 30a
NB 89.93 89.6 9 87.82 87.2 7 90.61 88.9 3

ML: Machine Learning; CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; MLP: multilayer perceptron; RF: random forest; SVM: support vector machine; NB: Naïve Bayesian.

a

Number of selected features to obtain the best F-measure value.