Artificial intelligence-based prediction of transfusion in the intensive care unit in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.

Journal: BMJ health & care informatics
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding commonly requires intensive care unit (ICU) in cases of potentialhaemodynamiccompromise or likely urgent intervention. However, manypatientsadmitted to the ICU stop bleeding and do not require further intervention, including blood transfusion. The present work proposes an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for the prediction of rebleeding in patients with GI bleeding admitted to ICU.

Authors

  • Riccardo Levi
    Department of Electronic, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy riccardo.levi@mail.polimi.it.
  • Francesco Carli
    Department of Informatics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Piemonte, Italy.
  • Aldo Robles Arévalo
    IDMEC, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Yuksel Altinel
    General Surgery Department, Istanbul Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Daniel J Stein
    Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Matteo Maria Naldini
    San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.
  • Federica Grassi
    School of Medicine and Surgery, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.
  • Andrea Zanoni
    Institute of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland.
  • Stan Finkelstein
    MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Susana M Vieira
    IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal.
  • João Sousa
    Nephrology Department, Hospital Curry Cabral, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Riccardo Barbieri
    SpinLabs, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
  • Leo Anthony Celi
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.