Frontiers in Medicine (Feb 2023)

Predicting mortality in patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding using machine-learning

  • Bogdan Silviu Ungureanu,
  • Dan Ionut Gheonea,
  • Dan Nicolae Florescu,
  • Sevastita Iordache,
  • Sergiu Marian Cazacu,
  • Vlad Florin Iovanescu,
  • Ion Rogoveanu,
  • Adina Turcu-Stiolica

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1134835
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10

Abstract

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BackgroundNon-endoscopic risk scores, Glasgow Blatchford (GBS) and admission Rockall (Rock), are limited by poor specificity. The aim of this study was to develop an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for the non-endoscopic triage of nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (NVUGIB), with mortality as a primary outcome.MethodsFour machine learning algorithms, namely, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA), logistic regression (LR), K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), were performed with GBS, Rock, Beylor Bleeding score (BBS), AIM65, and T-score.ResultsA total of 1,096 NVUGIB hospitalized in the Gastroenterology Department of the County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Craiova, Romania, randomly divided into training and testing groups, were included retrospectively in our study. The machine learning models were more accurate at identifying patients who met the endpoint of mortality than any of the existing risk scores. AIM65 was the most important score in the detection of whether a NVUGIB would die or not, whereas BBS had no influence on this. Also, the greater AIM65 and GBS, and the lower Rock and T-score, the higher mortality will be.ConclusionThe best accuracy was obtained by the hyperparameter-tuned K-NN classifier (98%), giving the highest precision and recall on the training and testing datasets among all developed models, showing that machine learning can accurately predict mortality in patients with NVUGIB.

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