Septic shock prediction for ICU patients via coupled HMM walking on sequential contrast patterns.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Critical care patient events like sepsis or septic shock in intensive care units (ICUs) are dangerous complications which can cause multiple organ failures and eventual death. Preventive prediction of such events will allow clinicians to stage effective interventions for averting these critical complications.

Authors

  • Shameek Ghosh
    Advanced Analytics Institute, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Electronic address: Shameek.Ghosh@student.uts.edu.au.
  • Jinyan Li
  • Longbing Cao
    Advanced Analytics Institute, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Electronic address: Longbing.Cao@uts.edu.au.
  • Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
    Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia. Electronic address: kotagiri@unimelb.edu.au.