Predicting assisted ventilation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis using a mixture of experts and conformal predictors

07/30/2019
by   Telma Pereira, et al.
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a rapid motor decline, leading to respiratory failure and subsequently to death. In this context, researchers have sought for models to automatically predict disease progression to assisted ventilation in ALS patients. However, the clinical translation of such models is limited by the lack of insight 1) on the risk of error for predictions at patient-level, and 2) on the most adequate time to administer the non-invasive ventilation. To address these issues, we combine Conformal Prediction (a machine learning framework that complements predictions with confidence measures) and a mixture experts into a prognostic model which not only predicts whether an ALS patient will suffer from respiratory insufficiency but also the most likely time window of occurrence, at a given reliability level. Promising results were obtained, with near 80

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