Machine learning for risk analysis of Urinary Tract Infection in people with dementia

11/27/2020
by   Honglin Li, et al.
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The Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are one of the top reasons for unplanned hospital admissions in people with dementia, and if detected early, they can be timely treated. However, the standard UTI diagnosis tests, e.g. urine tests, will be only taken if the patients are clinically suspected of having UTIs. This causes a delay in diagnosis and treatment of the conditions and in some cases like people with dementia, the symptoms can be difficult to observe. Delay in detection and treatment of dementia is one of the key reasons for unplanned hospital admissions in people with dementia. To address these issues, we have developed a technology-assisted monitoring system, which is a Class 1 medical device. The system uses off-the-shelf and low-cost in-home sensory devices to monitor environmental and physiological data of people with dementia within their own homes. We have designed a machine learning model to use the data and provide risk analysis for UTIs. We use a semi-supervised learning model which leverage the environmental data, i.e. the data collected from the motion sensors, smart plugs and network-connected body temperature monitoring devices in the home, to detect patterns that can show the risk of UTIs. Since the data is noisy and partially labelled, we combine the neural networks and probabilistic neural networks to train an auto-encoder, which is to extract the general representation of the data. We will demonstrate our smart home management by videos/online, and show how our model can pick up the UTI related patterns.

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