Prediction of adverse outcomes of acute coronary syndrome using intelligent fusion of triage information with HUMINT

Claire L. McCullough; Andrew J. Novobilski; Francis M. Fesmire M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.666276

18 April 2006 Prediction of adverse outcomes of acute coronary syndrome using intelligent fusion of triage information with HUMINT

Claire L. McCullough, Andrew J. Novobilski, Francis M. Fesmire M.D.

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Proceedings Volume 6242, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2006; 62420E (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.666276
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

Faculty from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit, have used data mining techniques and neural networks to examine a set of fourteen features, data items, and HUMINT assessments for 2,148 emergency room patients with symptoms possibly indicative of Acute Coronary Syndrome. Specifically, the authors have generated Bayesian networks describing linkages and causality in the data, and have compared them with neural networks. The data includes objective information routinely collected during triage and the physician's initial case assessment, a HUMINT appraisal. Both the neural network and the Bayesian network were used to fuse the disparate types of information with the goal of forecasting thirty-day adverse patient outcome. This paper presents details of the methods of data fusion including both the data mining techniques and the neural network. Results are compared using Receiver Operating Characteristic curves describing the outcomes of both methods, both using only objective features and including the subjective physician's assessment. While preliminary, the results of this continuing study are significant both from the perspective of potential use of the intelligent fusion of biomedical informatics to aid the physician in prescribing treatment necessary to prevent serious adverse outcome from ACS and as a model of fusion of objective data with subjective HUMINT assessment. Possible future work includes extension of successfully demonstrated intelligent fusion methods to other medical applications, and use of decision level fusion to combine results from data mining and neural net approaches for even more accurate outcome prediction.

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Claire L. McCullough, Andrew J. Novobilski, and Francis M. Fesmire M.D. "Prediction of adverse outcomes of acute coronary syndrome using intelligent fusion of triage information with HUMINT", Proc. SPIE 6242, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2006, 62420E (18 April 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.666276

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