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  • Computational biology
  • Medical informatics
  • Data science

Background:

  • Large clinical datasets offer potential for personalized patient care through stratification.
  • Data sparsity and noise in clinical information necessitate careful data processing strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of varying minimum prevalence thresholds on diagnosis codes for patient stratification.
  • To evaluate the effect of these thresholds on latent class analysis outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) cohorts.
  • To assess the computational efficiency of different prevalence thresholding methods.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a cohort of Multiple Sclerosis patients.
  • Applied diverse minimum prevalence thresholds to diagnosis codes.
  • Employed latent class analysis for patient stratification.
  • Examined computational efficiency across various disease-specific datasets.

Main Results:

  • Different minimum prevalence thresholds significantly influence the resulting patient strata (classes).
  • Threshold selection impacts the stability and interpretability of latent classes.
  • Computational performance varies depending on the chosen threshold and dataset.

Conclusions:

  • Minimum prevalence thresholding is a critical step in processing clinical data for patient stratification.
  • Optimizing thresholds can improve the accuracy and efficiency of personalized care approaches in MS.
  • Further research is needed to establish optimal thresholding strategies for diverse clinical datasets.