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Noninvasive Real-Time Mortality Prediction in Intensive Care Units Based on Gradient Boosting Method: Model
Huizhen Jiang1, Longxiang Su2, Hao Wang2
1Department of Information Center, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Background:
Monitoring critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) in real time is vitally important. Although scoring systems are most often used in risk prediction of mortality, they are usually not highly precise, and the clinical data are often simply weighted. This method is inefficient and time-consuming in the clinical setting.
Objective:
The objective of this study was to integrate all medical data and noninvasively predict the real-time mortality of ICU patients using a gradient boosting method. Specifically, our goal was to predict mortality using a noninvasive method to minimize the discomfort to patients.
Methods:
In this study, we established five models to predict mortality in real time based on different features. According to the monitoring, laboratory, and scoring data, we constructed the feature engineering. The five real-time mortality prediction models were RMM (based on monitoring features), RMA (based on monitoring features and the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation [APACHE]), RMS (based on monitoring features and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment [SOFA]), RMML (based on monitoring and laboratory features), and RM (based on all monitoring, laboratory, and scoring features). All models were built using LightGBM and tested with XGBoost. We then compared the performance of all models, with particular focus on the noninvasive method, the RMM model.
Results:
After extensive experiments, the area under the curve of the RMM model was 0.8264, which was superior to that of the RMA and RMS models. Therefore, predicting mortality using the noninvasive method was both efficient and practical, as it eliminated the need for extra physical interventions on patients, such as the drawing of blood. In addition, we explored the top nine features relevant to real-time mortality prediction: invasive mean blood pressure, heart rate, invasive systolic blood pressure, oxygen concentration, oxygen saturation, balance of input and output, total input, invasive diastolic blood pressure, and noninvasive mean blood pressure. These nine features should be given more focus in routine clinical practice.
Conclusions:
The results of this study may be helpful in real-time mortality prediction in patients in the ICU, especially the noninvasive method. It is efficient and favorable to patients, which offers a strong practical significance.
