A Statistical Classifier to Support Diagnose Meningitis in Less Developed Areas of Brazil.
This paper describes the development of statistical classifiers to help diagnose meningococcal meningitis, i.e. the most sever, infectious and deadliest type of this disease. The goal is to find a mechanism able to determine whether a patient has this type of meningitis from a set of symptoms that c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 41; no. 9; pp. 1 - 11 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=125068545&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 125068545 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01485598 4N0 jtl: Journal of Medical Systems issn: 01485598 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2017 vid: 41 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 125068545 125068545 125068545 10.1007/s10916-017-0785-5 125068545 ppf: 1 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: A Statistical Classifier to Support Diagnose Meningitis in Less Developed Areas of Brazil. aug: au: Lélis, Viviane-Maria Guzmán, Eduardo Belmonte, María-Victoria affil: Instituto Federal de Educao, Ciência e Tecnología da Bahia, Campus Vitória da Conquista , Bahia Brasil sug: subj: Statistics Classification Meningitis Diagnosis Developing Countries Human Brazil Geographic Locations Meningitis Mortality Meningitis Complications Patient Care Meningitis Physiopathology Hospitalization Meningitis Classification Data Analysis Software ROC Curve Decision Making, Clinical Patient Assessment Meningitis Therapy Disease Management Technology Meningitis Symptoms Fever Headache Vomiting Seizures ab: This paper describes the development of statistical classifiers to help diagnose meningococcal meningitis, i.e. the most sever, infectious and deadliest type of this disease. The goal is to find a mechanism able to determine whether a patient has this type of meningitis from a set of symptoms that can be directly observed in the earliest stages of this pathology. Currently, in Brazil, a country that is heavily affected by meningitis, all suspected cases require immediate hospitalization and the beginning of a treatment with invasive tests and medicines. This procedure, therefore, entails expensive treatments unaffordable in less developed regions. For this purpose, we have gathered together a dataset of 22,602 records of suspected meningitis cases from the Brazilian state of Bahia. Seven classification techniques have been applied from input data of nine symptoms and other information about the patient such as age, sex and the area they live in, and a 10 cross-fold validation has been performed. Results show that the techniques applied are suitable for diagnosing the meningococcal meningitis. Several indexes, such as precision, recall or ROC area, have been computed to show the accuracy of the models. All of them provide good results, but the best corresponds to the J48 classifier with a precision of 0.942 and a ROC area over 0.95. These results indicate that our model can indeed help lead to a non-invasive and early diagnosis of this pathology. This is especially useful in less developed areas, where the epidemiologic risk is usually high and medical expenses, sometimes, unaffordable. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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