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Dynamic temporal partitioning enhanced transformer for pediatric viral load forecasting
Sai Li1, Zhengqiu Li1, Yi Mo1
1Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Insights
This study introduces DTR-Former, a novel model for predicting viral load in children. DTR-Former improves accuracy and stability in forecasting, outperforming existing time-series methods.
Area of Science:
- Biomedical Informatics
- Computational Biology
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Viral infectious diseases are common in children, making accurate viral load prediction crucial for effective clinical management and public health.
- Current time-series models struggle with complex data challenges like long-range dependencies, multi-scale features, noise, and missing clinical information.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop an advanced model for accurate viral load prediction in pediatric populations.
- To address the limitations of existing time-series models in handling complex clinical data.
Main Methods:
- Proposed DTR-Former (Dynamic Temporal Partitioning-enhanced Transformer) utilizing wavelet packet decomposition for adaptive temporal partitioning and multi-scale feature extraction.
- Employed sparse self-attention to minimize redundancy and improve long-sequence modeling.
- Integrated a residual convolutional decoder with a gating mechanism for feature refinement and noise suppression.
Main Results:
- Achieved Mean Squared Error (MSE) of 0.16 and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.27 with an R-squared (R²) of 0.88 on the dbEBV dataset.
- Obtained MSE = 0.18, MAE = 0.30, and R² = 0.86 on the NCBI dataset.
- Demonstrated robust multi-step prediction stability and resilience to missing data.
Conclusions:
- DTR-Former surpasses state-of-the-art methods in predictive accuracy, stability, and efficiency.
- Presents a viable solution for pediatric viral load forecasting and other time-series analysis tasks.
Introduction:
Viral infectious diseases are highly prevalent in pediatric populations, and accurate prediction of viral load is critical for clinical intervention and public health management. Existing time-series models poorly handle long-range dependencies, multi-scale features, noise, and incomplete clinical data.
Methods:
We propose DTR-Former, a Dynamic Temporal Partitioning-enhanced Transformer. It uses wavelet packet decomposition for adaptive temporal partitioning and multi-scale feature extraction, adopts sparse self-attention to reduce redundancy and enhance long-sequence modeling, and employs a residual convolutional decoder with a gating mechanism to refine features and suppress residual noise.
Results:
On dbEBV dataset, DTR-Former achieves MSE = 0.16, MAE = 0.27, R 2 = 0.88; on NCBI dataset, MSE = 0.18, MAE = 0.30, R 2 = 0.86. It shows strong multi-step stability and robustness under missing-data conditions.
Conclusion:
DTR-Former outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy, stability, and efficiency, offering an effective solution for pediatric viral load forecasting and related time-series tasks.
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