Identification and validation of predictive factors for glycemic control: neural networks vs. logistic regression

  • Authors:
  • Chun-Liang Lai;Chung-Liang Lai;Show-Wei Chien;Kwoting Fang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taichung Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C.;Department of Information Management, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Venue:
  • CEA'07 Proceedings of the 2007 annual Conference on International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

From last decade, we are confronted with the rapid growth of diabetic patients who have become one of the most important burdens of public health. Accompanied with different complications, diabetes has considerable influences on the quality of individual living and the use of medical resources in the world in the 21st century. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, from the comparison standpoint logistic regression and neural networks were adopted to pursue the underlying characteristics of the glycemic control of the achieving target, or poor control level, so as to provide guidelines for physicians and diabetes educators. Second, for the cross validity purpose, 512 middle-aged patients, enrolled in Diabetes Healthcare Quality Improvement Program, were divided into training data and holdout data in a teaching hospital in Taiwan. Armed with the comparison, the finding revealed that neural networks is more accuracy than logistic regression. The important factors influence glycemic control are Years of diabetes onset, Education status, Body mass index, Months of enrolled in Diabetes Healthcare Quality Improvement Program, and Patient-Physician relationship.