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Julia Liepold1,2, Leonhard Hauptfeld2, Moritz Grob2,3

  • 1Institute for Logic and Computation, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria.

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Summary

Detecting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), like bloodstream infections (BSIs), can be computationally expensive. A new computational approach using goal-driven reasoning offers a more efficient and interpretable alternative for clinical decision support.

Keywords:
bloodstream infectionsclinical reasoningforward & backward chainingsatisfiability problem (SAT)

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Area of Science:

  • Computational epidemiology
  • Clinical informatics
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare

Background:

  • Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), especially bloodstream infections (BSIs), necessitate rapid and accurate detection.
  • Current rule-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS) employ forward chaining, which can be computationally intensive and lack transparency in data-rich environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze infection monitoring from a computational viewpoint.
  • To explore alternative reasoning methods for BSI detection beyond traditional data-driven approaches.
  • To enhance the efficiency, interpretability, and uncertainty awareness of clinical decision support.

Main Methods:

  • Formalizing rule-based infection detection as a fixed-point computation to analyze its complexity.
  • Reformulating bloodstream infection detection as a satisfiability problem in propositional logic.
  • Investigating goal-driven reasoning as an alternative to forward chaining for BSI detection.

Main Results:

  • The computational complexity of traditional rule-based systems for infection detection was analyzed.
  • A novel formulation of BSI detection as a logical satisfiability problem was developed.
  • Goal-driven reasoning emerged as a promising alternative for BSI detection.

Conclusions:

  • A computational perspective on infection monitoring reveals limitations in current data-driven CDSS.
  • Formulating BSI detection as a satisfiability problem enables more efficient and interpretable reasoning.
  • This approach paves the way for uncertainty-aware clinical decision support systems for HAIs.