Prospective validation of a machine learning model that uses provider notes to identify candidates for resective epilepsy surgery.

Journal: Epilepsia
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Delay to resective epilepsy surgery results in avoidable disease burden and increased risk of mortality. The objective was to prospectively validate a natural language processing (NLP) application that uses provider notes to assign epilepsy surgery candidacy scores.

Authors

  • Benjamin D Wissel
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Hansel M Greiner
    Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  • Tracy A Glauser
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Katherine D Holland-Bouley
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Francesco T Mangano
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Daniel Santel
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., MLC 7024, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3039, USA.
  • Robert Faist
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Nanhua Zhang
    College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  • John P Pestian
    Department of Pediatrics, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  • Rhonda D Szczesniak
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Judith W Dexheimer
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.