C4.5: programs for machine learning
C4.5: programs for machine learning
Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Trendfinder: automated detection of alarmable trends
Trendfinder: automated detection of alarmable trends
A note on the utility of incremental learning
AI Communications
Guest Editorial: Computer-based decision support for critical and emergency care
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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Intensive care monitoring systems are typically developed from population data, but do not take into account the variability among individual patients' characteristics. This study develops patient-specific alarm algorithms in real time. Classification tree and neural network learning were carried out in batch mode on individual patients' vital sign numerics in successive intervals of incremental duration to generate binary classifiers of patient state and thus to determine when to issue an alarm. Results suggest that the performance of these classifiers follows the course of a learning curve. After 8h of patient-specific training during each of 10 monitoring sessions, our neural networks reached average sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and accuracy of 0.96, 0.99, 0.79, and 0.99, respectively. The classification trees achieved 0.84, 0.98, 0.72, and 0.98, respectively. Thus, patient-specific modeling in real time is not only feasible but also effective in generating alerts at the bedside.