An enhanced grey wolf optimizer boosted machine learning prediction model for patient-flow prediction.

Journal: Computers in biology and medicine
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Abstract

Large and medium-sized general hospitals have adopted artificial intelligence big data systems to optimize the management of medical resources to improve the quality of hospital outpatient services and decrease patient wait times in recent years as a result of the development of medical information technology and the rise of big medical data. However, owing to the impact of several elements, including the physical environment, patient, and physician behaviours, the real optimum treatment effect does not meet expectations. In order to promote orderly patient access, this work provides a patient-flow prediction model that takes into account shifting dynamics and objective rules of patient-flow to handle this issue and forecast patients' medical requirements. First, we propose a high-performance optimization method (SRXGWO) and integrate the Sobol sequence, Cauchy random replacement strategy, and directional mutation mechanism into the grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm. The patient-flow prediction model (SRXGWO-SVR) is then proposed using SRXGWO to optimize the parameters of support vector regression (SVR). Twelve high-performance algorithms are examined in the benchmark function experiments' ablation and peer algorithm comparison tests, which are intended to validate SRXGWO's optimization performance. In order to forecast independently in the patient-flow prediction trials, the data set is split into training and test sets. The findings demonstrated that SRXGWO-SVR outperformed the other seven peer models in terms of prediction accuracy and error. As a result, SRXGWO-SVR is anticipated to be a reliable and efficient patient-flow forecast system that may help hospitals manage medical resources as effectively as possible.

Authors

  • Xiang Zhang
    Department of Orthopedics, Orthopedic Research Institute, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
  • Bin Lu
    Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Huadong Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  • Lyuzheng Zhang
    B-soft Co.,Ltd., B-soft Wisdom Building, No.92 Yueda Lane, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, 310052, China. Electronic address: 66199293@qq.com.
  • Zhifang Pan
    Information Technology Center, Wenzhou Medical University, 325035, China.
  • Minjie Liao
    Wenzhou Data Management and Development Group Co.,Ltd, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China. Electronic address: 1829820@qq.com.
  • Huihui Shen
    Wenzhou Data Management and Development Group Co.,Ltd, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China. Electronic address: ylvias7@126.com.
  • Li Zhang
    Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
  • Lei Liu
    Department of Science and Technology, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
  • Zuxiang Li
    Organization Department of the Party Committee, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325000, China. Electronic address: lizuxiang@wzu.edu.cn.
  • YiPao Hu
    Wenzhou Health Commission, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China. Electronic address: huyipao@outlook.com.
  • Zhihong Gao
    Department of Big Data in Health Science, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China.