Prediction of in-hospital mortality after ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using an artificial neural network.

Journal: Journal of vascular surgery
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) carries a high mortality rate, even with prompt transfer to a medical center. An artificial neural network (ANN) is a computational model that improves predictive ability through pattern recognition while continually adapting to new input data. The goal of this study was to effectively use ANN modeling to provide vascular surgeons a discriminant adjunct to assess the likelihood of in-hospital mortality on a pending rAAA admission using easily obtainable patient information from the field.

Authors

  • Eric S Wise
    Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. Electronic address: eric.s.wise@vanderbilt.edu.
  • Kyle M Hocking
    Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
  • Colleen M Brophy
    Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn; Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tenn.