Socio-Economic Factors and Clinical Context Can Predict Adherence to Incidental Pulmonary Nodule Follow-up via Machine Learning Models.

Journal: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To quantify the relative importance of demographic, contextual, socio-economic, and nodule-related factors that influence patient adherence to incidental pulmonary nodule (IPN) follow-up visits and evaluate the predictive performance of machine learning models utilizing these features.

Authors

  • Zhuoyang Wang
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Eduardo J Mortani Barbosa
    Department of Bioengineering, School of Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: Eduardo.Barbosa@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.