Predicting death by suicide using administrative health care system data: Can recurrent neural network, one-dimensional convolutional neural network, and gradient boosted trees models improve prediction performance?

Journal: Journal of affective disorders
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Suicide is a leading cause of death, particularly in younger persons, and this results in tremendous years of life lost.

Authors

  • Michael Sanderson
    Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, TRW, 4th Floor, Room 4D66, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Electronic address: michael.sanderson@gov.ab.ca.
  • Andrew Gm Bulloch
    Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, TRW, 4th Floor, Room 4D67, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  • JianLi Wang
    School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • Tyler Williamson
    Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, TRW, 3rd Floor, Room 3D15, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  • Scott B Patten
    Department of Community Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, TRW, 4th Floor, Room 4D66, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.