Prediction of Patients’ Mortality during Hospitalizations
Abstract
In this study, we predict patients’ mortality in the session that a patient is hospitalized. We focus on both lab results and vital signs collected in the first 24 hours of a patient admission to predict his/her mortality within that hospitalization. We use MIMIC-III dataset for data analysis and building predictive models. We include only patients with age of 18 or above resulting in a sample of 38,578 patients. Independent variables include patients’ demographic information, lab results and vital signs. The dependent variable is whether the patient dies within that hospitalization. We use Weka 3.8 for data analysis and model building. After randomly splitting the data into 80 and 20 percent, then we use the 80 percent of the data for feature selection as well as training the prediction models. As a result, we construct four prediction models using Bayes Network, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes and Random Forest. After constructing these models, we test them on the remaining 20 percent of the data. We use Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) area, precreation and recall values to compare the accuracy of these models with each other. Result showed that the highest ROC area belongs to the Bayes Network at 0.824 followed closely by Logistic Regression at 0.817 for the test set.
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