Prediction of Type II Diabetes Onset with Computed Tomography and Electronic Medical Records.

Journal: Multimodal learning for clinical decision support and clinical image-based procedures : 10th International Workshop, ML-CDS 2020, and 9th International Workshop, CLIP 2020, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru, October 4-8, ...
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Abstract

Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a significant public health concern with multiple known risk factors (, body mass index (BMI), body fat distribution, glucose levels). Improved prediction or prognosis would enable earlier intervention before possibly irreversible damage has occurred. Meanwhile, abdominal computed tomography (CT) is a relatively common imaging technique. Herein, we explore secondary use of the CT imaging data to refine the risk profile of future diagnosis of T2DM. In this work, we delineate quantitative information and imaging slices of patient history to predict onset T2DM retrieved from ICD-9 codes at least one year in the future. Furthermore, we investigate the role of five different types of electronic medical records (EMR), specifically 1) demographics; 2) pancreas volume; 3) visceral/subcutaneous fat volumes in L2 region of interest; 4) abdominal body fat distribution and 5) glucose lab tests in prediction. Next, we build a deep neural network to predict onset T2DM with pancreas imaging slices. Finally, motivated by multi-modal machine learning, we construct a merged framework to combine CT imaging slices with EMR information to refine the prediction. We empirically demonstrate our proposed joint analysis involving images and EMR leads to 4.25% and 6.93% AUC increase in predicting T2DM compared with only using images or EMR. In this study, we used case-control dataset of 997 subjects with CT scans and contextual EMR scores. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to show the ability to prognose T2DM using the patients' contextual and imaging history. We believe this study has promising potential for heterogeneous data analysis and multi-modal medical applications.

Authors

  • Yucheng Tang
    NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara and Bethesda, USA.
  • Riqiang Gao
    Vanderbilt University, , Nashville, USA.
  • Ho Hin Lee
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
  • Quinn Stanton Wells
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, , Nashville, USA.
  • Ashley Spann
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, , Nashville, USA.
  • James G Terry
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, , Nashville, USA.
  • John J Carr
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, , Nashville, USA.
  • Yuankai Huo
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
  • Shunxing Bao
    Vanderbilt University, , Nashville, USA.
  • Bennett A Landman
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235, USA.

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