PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's impact millions of people worldwide. Early diagnosis has proven to greatly increase the chances of slowing down the diseases' progression. Correct diagnosis often relies on the analysis of large amounts of patient data, an...

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Main Authors: Tamara T. Müller, Pietro Lio
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frai.2020.00023/full
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description Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's impact millions of people worldwide. Early diagnosis has proven to greatly increase the chances of slowing down the diseases' progression. Correct diagnosis often relies on the analysis of large amounts of patient data, and thus lends itself well to support from machine learning algorithms, which are able to learn from past diagnosis and see clearly through the complex interactions of a patient's symptoms and data. Unfortunately, many contemporary machine learning techniques fail to reveal details about how they reach their conclusions, a property considered fundamental when providing a diagnosis. Here we introduce our Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System (PECLIDES), an algorithmic process formulated to address this specific fault in diagnosis detection. PECLIDES provides a clear insight into the decision-making process leading to a diagnosis, making it a gray box model. Our algorithm enriches the fundamental work of Masheyekhi and Gras in data integration, personal medicine, usability, visualization, and interactivity.Our decision support system is an operation of translational medicine. It is based on random forests, is personalisable and allows a clear insight into the decision-making process. A well-structured rule set is created and every rule of the decision-making process can be observed by the user (physician). Furthermore, the user has an impact on the creation of the final rule set and the algorithm allows the comparison of different diseases as well as regional differences in the same disease. The algorithm is applicable to various decision problems. In this paper we will evaluate it on diagnosing neurological diseases and therefore refer to the algorithm as PECLIDES Neuro1.
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spelling doaj.art-770869f3bcb1406197e2f79970ebf93a2022-12-21T19:04:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence2624-82122020-04-01310.3389/frai.2020.00023526217PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological DiseasesTamara T. MüllerPietro LioNeurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's impact millions of people worldwide. Early diagnosis has proven to greatly increase the chances of slowing down the diseases' progression. Correct diagnosis often relies on the analysis of large amounts of patient data, and thus lends itself well to support from machine learning algorithms, which are able to learn from past diagnosis and see clearly through the complex interactions of a patient's symptoms and data. Unfortunately, many contemporary machine learning techniques fail to reveal details about how they reach their conclusions, a property considered fundamental when providing a diagnosis. Here we introduce our Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System (PECLIDES), an algorithmic process formulated to address this specific fault in diagnosis detection. PECLIDES provides a clear insight into the decision-making process leading to a diagnosis, making it a gray box model. Our algorithm enriches the fundamental work of Masheyekhi and Gras in data integration, personal medicine, usability, visualization, and interactivity.Our decision support system is an operation of translational medicine. It is based on random forests, is personalisable and allows a clear insight into the decision-making process. A well-structured rule set is created and every rule of the decision-making process can be observed by the user (physician). Furthermore, the user has an impact on the creation of the final rule set and the algorithm allows the comparison of different diseases as well as regional differences in the same disease. The algorithm is applicable to various decision problems. In this paper we will evaluate it on diagnosing neurological diseases and therefore refer to the algorithm as PECLIDES Neuro1.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frai.2020.00023/fulldecision supportrandom forestprecision medicineneurological diseasespersonalisable medicinemachine learning
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PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
decision support
random forest
precision medicine
neurological diseases
personalisable medicine
machine learning
title PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases
title_full PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases
title_fullStr PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases
title_full_unstemmed PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases
title_short PECLIDES Neuro: A Personalisable Clinical Decision Support System for Neurological Diseases
title_sort peclides neuro a personalisable clinical decision support system for neurological diseases
topic decision support
random forest
precision medicine
neurological diseases
personalisable medicine
machine learning
url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frai.2020.00023/full
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