A novel machine learning architecture to improve classification of intermediate cases in health: workflow and case study for public health.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The practice of medicine has evolved significantly during the past decade, with the emergence of Machine Learning (ML) that offers the opportunity of personalized patient-tailored care. However, ML models still face some challenges when classifying patients where clear-cut boundaries between classes are hard to identify. In this work, we propose an ML architecture to improve the sensitivity of detecting patients in intermediate "hard-to-classify" classes.

Authors

  • Bassel Hammoud
    1Biomedical Engineering Program and.
  • Aline Semaan
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Lenka Benova
    Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Imad H Elhajj
    Vascular Medicine Program, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Riad el Solh, PO Box 11-023, Beirut, 11072020, Lebanon.