Artificial Intelligence Application in Health Care System

A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Methodology, Drug and Device Discovery".

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Dear Colleagues,

Machine learning, a hot research topic with a huge amount of recent progress, brings dramatic changes and improvement in health care systems. Famously, a deep learning model (a convolutional neural network) halved the second best error rate on the image classification task in the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in 2012. These breakthroughs are attributed to the easily accessible and annotated data and the explosion of the available computing power, enabling the use of neural networks, which are deeper than before. Nowadays, these models form state-of-the-art approaches to various problems in computer vision, language modeling, and signal processing. Health care providers obtain enormous amounts of data containing extremely valuable signals and information. Therefore, machine learning has rapidly entered the biomedical research field to integrate, analyze, and make predictions based on large and heterogeneous datasets. In this Special Issue, we would like to explore "Artificial Intelligence Applications in Health Care Systems", which often involves a training set for fitting models, a validation set for hyperparameter selections, and a test set for performance assessment. A validation set could be ignored if there is no hyperparameter selection process, and performance assessment can be conducted based on k-fold cross-validation. Studies following the above criteria with potential impacts on real clinical practice based on artificial intelligence-assisted systems are considered for publication in the Special Issue titled "Artificial Intelligence Applications in Health Care Systems" in the Journal of Personalized Medicine (IF: 3.508, ISSN 2075-4426).  We appreciate your research and look forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Chin-Sheng Lin
Dr. Chin Lin
Dr. Hung-Yu Wei
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Keywords

  • machine learning
  • deep learning
  • health care
  • clinical practice
  • electronic health records
  • electronic medical records
  • medical image
  • electrocardiography
  • electrocardiogram
  • echocardiogram
  • electroencephalography
  • auditory brainstem evoked response
  • X-ray
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • computed tomography
  • photoplethysmography
  • wearable device
  • internet of things
  • smart hospital

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The Application of DTCWT on MRI-Derived Radiomics for Differentiation of Glioblastoma and Solitary Brain Metastases
by Wen-Feng Wu, Chia-Wei Shen, Kuan-Ming Lai, Yi-Jen Chen, Eugene C. Lin and Chien-Chin Chen
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(8), 1276; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12081276 - 03 Aug 2022
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Background: While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the imaging modality of choice for the evaluation of patients with brain tumors, it may still be challenging to differentiate glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) from solitary brain metastasis (SBM) due to their similar imaging features. This study [...] Read more.
Background: While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the imaging modality of choice for the evaluation of patients with brain tumors, it may still be challenging to differentiate glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) from solitary brain metastasis (SBM) due to their similar imaging features. This study aimed to evaluate the features extracted of dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) from routine MRI protocol for preoperative differentiation of glioblastoma (GBM) and solitary brain metastasis (SBM). Methods: A total of 51 patients were recruited, including 27 GBM and 24 SBM patients. Their contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images (CET1WIs), T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (T2FLAIR) images, diffusion-weighted images (DWIs), and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) images were employed in this study. The statistical features of the pre-transformed images and the decomposed images of the wavelet transform and DTCWT were utilized to distinguish between GBM and SBM. Results: The support vector machine (SVM) showed that DTCWT images have a better accuracy (82.35%), sensitivity (77.78%), specificity (87.50%), and the area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) (89.20%) than the pre-transformed and conventional wavelet transform images. By incorporating DTCWT and pre-transformed images, the accuracy (86.27%), sensitivity (81.48%), specificity (91.67%), and AUC (93.06%) were further improved. Conclusions: Our studies suggest that the features extracted from the DTCWT images can potentially improve the differentiation between GBM and SBM. Full article
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Identification of Early Esophageal Cancer by Semantic Segmentation
by Yu-Jen Fang, Arvind Mukundan, Yu-Ming Tsao, Chien-Wei Huang and Hsiang-Chen Wang
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(8), 1204; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12081204 - 25 Jul 2022
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Early detection of esophageal cancer has always been difficult, thereby reducing the overall five-year survival rate of patients. In this study, semantic segmentation was used to predict and label esophageal cancer in its early stages. U-Net was used as the basic artificial neural [...] Read more.
Early detection of esophageal cancer has always been difficult, thereby reducing the overall five-year survival rate of patients. In this study, semantic segmentation was used to predict and label esophageal cancer in its early stages. U-Net was used as the basic artificial neural network along with Resnet to extract feature maps that will classify and predict the location of esophageal cancer. A total of 75 white-light images (WLI) and 90 narrow-band images (NBI) were used. These images were classified into three categories: normal, dysplasia, and squamous cell carcinoma. After labeling, the data were divided into a training set, verification set, and test set. The training set was approved by the encoder–decoder model to train the prediction model. Research results show that the average time of 111 ms is used to predict each image in the test set, and the evaluation method is calculated in pixel units. Sensitivity is measured based on the severity of the cancer. In addition, NBI has higher accuracy of 84.724% when compared with the 82.377% accuracy rate of WLI, thereby making it a suitable method to detect esophageal cancer using the algorithm developed in this study. Full article
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Deep Learning to Detect Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex Injury in Wrist MRI: Retrospective Study with Internal and External Validation
by Kun-Yi Lin, Yuan-Ta Li, Juin-Yi Han, Chia-Chun Wu, Chi-Min Chu, Shao-Yu Peng and Tsu-Te Yeh
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(7), 1029; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12071029 - 23 Jun 2022
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Objective: To use deep learning to predict the probability of triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) injury in patients’ MRI scans. Methods: We retrospectively studied medical records over 11 years and 2 months (1 January 2009–29 February 2019), collecting 332 contrast-enhanced hand MRI scans showing [...] Read more.
Objective: To use deep learning to predict the probability of triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) injury in patients’ MRI scans. Methods: We retrospectively studied medical records over 11 years and 2 months (1 January 2009–29 February 2019), collecting 332 contrast-enhanced hand MRI scans showing TFCC injury (143 scans) or not (189 scans) from a general hospital. We employed two convolutional neural networks with the MRNet (Algorithm 1) and ResNet50 (Algorithm 2) framework for deep learning. Explainable artificial intelligence was used for heatmap analysis. We tested deep learning using an external dataset containing the MRI scans of 12 patients with TFCC injuries and 38 healthy subjects. Results: In the internal dataset, Algorithm 1 had an AUC of 0.809 (95% confidence interval—CI: 0.670–0.947) for TFCC injury detection as well as an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 75.6% (95% CI: 0.613–0.858), 66.7% (95% CI: 0.438–0.837), and 81.5% (95% CI: 0.633–0.918), respectively, and an F1 score of 0.686. Algorithm 2 had an AUC of 0.871 (95% CI: 0.747–0.995) for TFCC injury detection and an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 90.7% (95% CI: 0.787–0.962), 88.2% (95% CI: 0.664–0.966), and 92.3% (95% CI: 0.763–0.978), respectively, and an F1 score of 0.882. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity for radiologist 1 were 88.9, 94.4 and 85.2%, respectively, and for radiologist 2, they were 71.1, 100 and 51.9%, respectively. Conclusions: A modified MRNet framework enables the detection of TFCC injury and guides accurate diagnosis. Full article
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Transparent Quality Optimization for Machine Learning-Based Regression in Neurology
by Karsten Wendt, Katrin Trentzsch, Rocco Haase, Marie Luise Weidemann, Robin Weidemann, Uwe Aßmann and Tjalf Ziemssen
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(6), 908; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12060908 - 31 May 2022
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The clinical monitoring of walking generates enormous amounts of data that contain extremely valuable information. Therefore, machine learning (ML) has rapidly entered the research arena to analyze and make predictions from large heterogeneous datasets. Such data-driven ML-based applications for various domains become increasingly [...] Read more.
The clinical monitoring of walking generates enormous amounts of data that contain extremely valuable information. Therefore, machine learning (ML) has rapidly entered the research arena to analyze and make predictions from large heterogeneous datasets. Such data-driven ML-based applications for various domains become increasingly applicable, and thus their software qualities are taken into focus. This work provides a proof of concept for applying state-of-the-art ML technology to predict the distance travelled of the 2-min walk test, an important neurological measurement which is an indicator of walking endurance. A transparent lean approach was emphasized to optimize the results in an explainable way and simultaneously meet the specified software requirements for a generic approach. It is a general-purpose strategy as a fractional–factorial design benchmark combined with standardized quality metrics based on a minimal technology build and a resulting optimized software prototype. Based on 400 training and 100 validation data, the achieved prediction yielded a relative error of 6.1% distributed over multiple experiments with an optimized configuration. The Adadelta algorithm (LR=0.000814, fModelSpread=5, nModelDepth=6, nepoch=1000) performed as the best model, with 90% of the predictions with an absolute error of <15 m. Factors such as gender, age, disease duration, or use of walking aids showed no effect on the relative error. For multiple sclerosis patients with high walking impairment (EDSS Ambulation Score 6), the relative difference was significant (n=30; 24.0%; p<0.050). The results show that it is possible to create a transparently working ML prototype for a given medical use case while meeting certain software qualities. Full article
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Deep Learning Analysis of Polish Electronic Health Records for Diagnosis Prediction in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases
by Kristof Anetta, Ales Horak, Wojciech Wojakowski, Krystian Wita and Tomasz Jadczyk
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(6), 869; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12060869 - 25 May 2022
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Electronic health records naturally contain most of the medical information in the form of doctor’s notes as unstructured or semi-structured texts. Current deep learning text analysis approaches allow researchers to reveal the inner semantics of text information and even identify hidden consequences that [...] Read more.
Electronic health records naturally contain most of the medical information in the form of doctor’s notes as unstructured or semi-structured texts. Current deep learning text analysis approaches allow researchers to reveal the inner semantics of text information and even identify hidden consequences that can offer extra decision support to doctors. In the presented article, we offer a new automated analysis of Polish summary texts of patient hospitalizations. The presented models were found to be able to predict the final diagnosis with almost 70% accuracy based just on the patient’s medical history (only 132 words on average), with possible accuracy increases when adding further sentences from hospitalization results; even one sentence was found to improve the results by 4%, and the best accuracy of 78% was achieved with five extra sentences. In addition to detailed descriptions of the data and methodology, we present an evaluation of the analysis using more than 50,000 Polish cardiology patient texts and dive into a detailed error analysis of the approach. The results indicate that the deep analysis of just the medical history summary can suggest the direction of diagnosis with a high probability that can be further increased just by supplementing the records with further examination results. Full article
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Deep Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit Combined with Attention Mechanism to Classify Pre-Ictal from Interictal EEG with Minimized Number of Channels
by WooHyeok Choi, Min-Jee Kim, Mi-Sun Yum and Dong-Hwa Jeong
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(5), 763; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12050763 - 09 May 2022
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The early prediction of epileptic seizures is important to provide appropriate treatment because it can notify clinicians in advance. Various EEG-based machine learning techniques have been used for automatic seizure classification based on subject-specific paradigms. However, because subject-specific models tend to perform poorly [...] Read more.
The early prediction of epileptic seizures is important to provide appropriate treatment because it can notify clinicians in advance. Various EEG-based machine learning techniques have been used for automatic seizure classification based on subject-specific paradigms. However, because subject-specific models tend to perform poorly on new patient data, a generalized model with a cross-patient paradigm is necessary for building a robust seizure diagnosis system. In this study, we proposed a generalized model that combines one-dimensional convolutional layers (1D CNN), gated recurrent unit (GRU) layers, and attention mechanisms to classify preictal and interictal phases. When we trained this model with ten minutes of preictal data, the average accuracy over eight patients was 82.86%, with 80% sensitivity and 85.5% precision, outperforming other state-of-the-art models. In addition, we proposed a novel application of attention mechanisms for channel selection. The personalized model using three channels with the highest attention score from the generalized model performed better than when using the smallest attention score. Based on these results, we proposed a model for generalized seizure predictors and a seizure-monitoring system with a minimized number of EEG channels. Full article
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Deep-ADCA: Development and Validation of Deep Learning Model for Automated Diagnosis Code Assignment Using Clinical Notes in Electronic Medical Records
by Jakir Hossain Bhuiyan Masud, Chiang Shun, Chen-Cheng Kuo, Md. Mohaimenul Islam, Chih-Yang Yeh, Hsuan-Chia Yang and Ming-Chin Lin
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(5), 707; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12050707 - 28 Apr 2022
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Currently, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes are being used to improve clinical, financial, and administrative performance. Inaccurate ICD coding can lower the quality of care, and delay or prevent reimbursement. However, selecting the appropriate ICD code from a patient’s clinical history [...] Read more.
Currently, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes are being used to improve clinical, financial, and administrative performance. Inaccurate ICD coding can lower the quality of care, and delay or prevent reimbursement. However, selecting the appropriate ICD code from a patient’s clinical history is time-consuming and requires expert knowledge. The rapid spread of electronic medical records (EMRs) has generated a large amount of clinical data and provides an opportunity to predict ICD codes using deep learning models. The main objective of this study was to use a deep learning-based natural language processing (NLP) model to accurately predict ICD-10 codes, which could help providers to make better clinical decisions and improve their level of service. We retrospectively collected clinical notes from five outpatient departments (OPD) from one university teaching hospital between January 2016 and December 2016. We applied NLP techniques, including global vectors, word to vectors, and embedding techniques to process the data. The dataset was split into two independent training and testing datasets consisting of 90% and 10% of the entire dataset, respectively. A convolutional neural network (CNN) model was developed, and the performance was measured using the precision, recall, and F-score. A total of 21,953 medical records were collected from 5016 patients. The performance of the CNN model for the five different departments was clinically satisfactory (Precision: 0.50~0.69 and recall: 0.78~0.91). However, the CNN model achieved the best performance for the cardiology department, with a precision of 69%, a recall of 89% and an F-score of 78%. The CNN model for predicting ICD-10 codes provides an opportunity to improve the quality of care. Implementing this model in real-world clinical settings could reduce the manual coding workload, enhance the efficiency of clinical coding, and support physicians in making better clinical decisions. Full article
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Development and Validation of an Artificial Intelligence Electrocardiogram Recommendation System in the Emergency Department
by Dung-Jang Tsai, Shih-Hung Tsai, Hui-Hsun Chiang, Chia-Cheng Lee and Sy-Jou Chen
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(5), 700; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12050700 - 27 Apr 2022
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The machine learning-assisted electrocardiogram (ECG) is increasingly recognized for its unprecedented capabilities in diagnosing and predicting cardiovascular diseases. Identifying the need for ECG examination early in emergency department (ED) triage is key to timely artificial intelligence-assisted analysis. We used machine learning to develop [...] Read more.
The machine learning-assisted electrocardiogram (ECG) is increasingly recognized for its unprecedented capabilities in diagnosing and predicting cardiovascular diseases. Identifying the need for ECG examination early in emergency department (ED) triage is key to timely artificial intelligence-assisted analysis. We used machine learning to develop and validate a clinical decision support tool to predict ED triage patients’ need for ECG. Data from 301,658 ED visits from August 2017 to November 2020 in a tertiary hospital were divided into a development cohort, validation cohort, and two test cohorts that included admissions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Models were developed using logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, and XGBoost methods. Their areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs), positive predictive values (PPVs), and negative predictive values (NPVs) were compared and validated. In the validation cohort, the AUCs were 0.887 for the XGBoost model, 0.885 for the logistic regression model, 0.878 for the random forest model, and 0.845 for the decision tree model. The XGBoost model was selected for subsequent application. In test cohort 1, the AUC was 0.891, with sensitivity of 0.812, specificity of 0.814, PPV of 0.708 and NPV of 0.886. In test cohort 2, the AUC was 0.885, with sensitivity of 0.816, specificity of 0.812, PPV of 0.659, and NPV of 0.908. In the cumulative incidence analysis, patients not receiving an ECG yet positively predicted by the model had significantly higher probability of receiving the examination within 48 h compared with those negatively predicted by the model. A machine learning model based on triage datasets was developed to predict ECG acquisition with high accuracy. The ECG recommendation can effectively predict whether patients presenting at ED triage will require an ECG, prompting subsequent analysis and decision-making in the ED. Full article
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LungNet22: A Fine-Tuned Model for Multiclass Classification and Prediction of Lung Disease Using X-ray Images
by F. M. Javed Mehedi Shamrat, Sami Azam, Asif Karim, Rakibul Islam, Zarrin Tasnim, Pronab Ghosh and Friso De Boer
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(5), 680; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12050680 - 24 Apr 2022
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In recent years, lung disease has increased manyfold, causing millions of casualties annually. To combat the crisis, an efficient, reliable, and affordable lung disease diagnosis technique has become indispensable. In this study, a multiclass classification of lung disease from frontal chest X-ray imaging [...] Read more.
In recent years, lung disease has increased manyfold, causing millions of casualties annually. To combat the crisis, an efficient, reliable, and affordable lung disease diagnosis technique has become indispensable. In this study, a multiclass classification of lung disease from frontal chest X-ray imaging using a fine-tuned CNN model is proposed. The classification is conducted on 10 disease classes of the lungs, namely COVID-19, Effusion, Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Lung Opacity, Mass, Nodule, Pneumothorax, and Pulmonary Fibrosis, along with the Normal class. The dataset is a collective dataset gathered from multiple sources. After pre-processing and balancing the dataset with eight augmentation techniques, a total of 80,000 X-ray images were fed to the model for classification purposes. Initially, eight pre-trained CNN models, AlexNet, GoogLeNet, InceptionV3, MobileNetV2, VGG16, ResNet 50, DenseNet121, and EfficientNetB7, were employed on the dataset. Among these, the VGG16 achieved the highest accuracy at 92.95%. To further improve the classification accuracy, LungNet22 was constructed upon the primary structure of the VGG16 model. An ablation study was used in the work to determine the different hyper-parameters. Using the Adam Optimizer, the proposed model achieved a commendable accuracy of 98.89%. To verify the performance of the model, several performance matrices, including the ROC curve and the AUC values, were computed as well. Full article
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A Simple Algorithm Using Ventilator Parameters to Predict Successfully Rapid Weaning Program in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Patients
by Wei-Teing Chen, Hai-Lun Huang, Pi-Shao Ko, Wen Su, Chung-Cheng Kao and Sui-Lung Su
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(3), 501; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12030501 - 21 Mar 2022
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Background: Ventilator weaning is one of the most significant challenges in the intensive care unit (ICU). Approximately 30% of patients fail to wean, resulting in prolonged use of ventilators and increased mortality. There are numerous high-performance prediction models available today, but they require [...] Read more.
Background: Ventilator weaning is one of the most significant challenges in the intensive care unit (ICU). Approximately 30% of patients fail to wean, resulting in prolonged use of ventilators and increased mortality. There are numerous high-performance prediction models available today, but they require a large number of parameters to predict and are thus impractical in clinical practice. Objectives: This study aims to create an artificial intelligence (AI) model for predicting weaning time and to identify the most simplified key predictors that will allow the model to achieve adequate accuracy with as few parameters as possible. Methods: This is a retrospective study of to-be-weaned patients (n = 1439) hospitalized in the cardiac ICU of Cheng Hsin General Hospital’s Department of Cardiac Surgery from November 2018 to August 2020. The patients were divided into two groups based on whether they could be weaned within 24 h (i.e., “patients weaned within 24 h” (n = 1042) and “patients not weaned within 24 h” (n = 397)). Twenty-eight variables were collected including demographic characteristics, arterial blood gas readings, and ventilation set parameters. We created a prediction model using logistic regression and compared it to other machine learning techniques such as decision tree, random forest, support vector machine (SVM), extreme gradient boosting, and artificial neural network. Forward, backward, and stepwise selection methods were used to identify significant variables, and the receiver operating characteristic curve was used to assess the accuracy of each AI model. Results: The SVM [receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC-AUC) = 88%], logistic regression (ROC-AUC = 86%), and XGBoost (ROC-AUC = 85%) models outperformed the other five machine learning models in predicting weaning time. The accuracies in predicting patient weaning within 24 h using seven variables (i.e., expiratory minute ventilation, expiratory tidal volume, ventilation rate set, heart rate, peak pressure, pH, and age) were close to those using 28 variables. Conclusions: The model developed in this research successfully predicted the weaning success of ICU patients using a few and easily accessible parameters such as age. Therefore, it can be used in clinical practice to identify difficult-to-wean patients to improve their treatment. Full article
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Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Electrocardiography Predicts Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Future Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Retrospective Analysis
by Hung-Yi Chen, Chin-Sheng Lin, Wen-Hui Fang, Yu-Sheng Lou, Cheng-Chung Cheng, Chia-Cheng Lee and Chin Lin
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(3), 455; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12030455 - 13 Mar 2022
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BACKGROUND: The ejection fraction (EF) provides critical information about heart failure (HF) and its management. Electrocardiography (ECG) is a noninvasive screening tool for cardiac electrophysiological activities that has been used to detect patients with low EF based on a deep learning model (DLM) [...] Read more.
BACKGROUND: The ejection fraction (EF) provides critical information about heart failure (HF) and its management. Electrocardiography (ECG) is a noninvasive screening tool for cardiac electrophysiological activities that has been used to detect patients with low EF based on a deep learning model (DLM) trained via large amounts of data. However, no studies have widely investigated its clinical impacts. OBJECTIVE: This study developed a DLM to estimate EF via ECG (ECG-EF). We further investigated the relationship between ECG-EF and echo-based EF (ECHO-EF) and explored their contributions to future cardiovascular adverse events. METHODS: There were 57,206 ECGs with corresponding echocardiograms used to train our DLM. We compared a series of training strategies and selected the best DLM. The architecture of the DLM was based on ECG12Net, developed previously. Next, 10,762 ECGs were used for validation, and another 20,629 ECGs were employed to conduct the accuracy test. The changes between ECG-EF and ECHO-EF were evaluated. The primary follow-up adverse events included future ECHO-EF changes and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs). RESULTS: The sex-/age-matching strategy-trained DLM achieved the best area under the curve (AUC) of 0.9472 with a sensitivity of 86.9% and specificity of 89.6% in the follow-up cohort, with a correlation of 0.603 and a mean absolute error of 7.436. In patients with accurate prediction (initial difference < 10%), the change traces of ECG-EF and ECHO-EF were more consistent (R-square = 0.351) than in all patients (R-square = 0.115). Patients with lower ECG-EF (≤35%) exhibited a greater risk of cardiovascular (CV) complications, delayed ECHO-EF recovery, and earlier ECHO-EF deterioration than patients with normal ECG-EF (>50%). Importantly, ECG-EF demonstrated an independent impact on MACEs and all CV adverse outcomes, with better prediction of CV outcomes than ECHO-EF. CONCLUSIONS: The ECG-EF could be used to initially screen asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) and it could also independently contribute to the predictions of future CV adverse events. Although further large-scale studies are warranted, DLM-based ECG-EF could serve as a promising diagnostic supportive and management-guided tool for CV disease prediction and the care of patients with LVD. Full article
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Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Electrocardiogram Estimates Left Atrium Enlargement as a Predictor of Future Cardiovascular Disease
by Yu-Sheng Lou, Chin-Sheng Lin, Wen-Hui Fang, Chia-Cheng Lee, Ching-Liang Ho, Chih-Hung Wang and Chin Lin
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(2), 315; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12020315 - 19 Feb 2022
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Background: Left atrium enlargement (LAE) can be used as a predictor of future cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension (HTN) and atrial fibrillation (Afib). Typical electrocardiogram (ECG) changes have been reported in patients with LAE. This study developed a deep learning model (DLM)-enabled ECG system [...] Read more.
Background: Left atrium enlargement (LAE) can be used as a predictor of future cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension (HTN) and atrial fibrillation (Afib). Typical electrocardiogram (ECG) changes have been reported in patients with LAE. This study developed a deep learning model (DLM)-enabled ECG system to identify patients with LAE. Method: Patients who had ECG records with corresponding echocardiography (ECHO) were included. There were 101,077 ECGs, 20,510 ECGs, 7611 ECGs, and 11,753 ECGs in the development, tuning, internal validation, and external validation sets, respectively. We evaluated the performance of a DLM-enabled ECG for diagnosing LAE and explored the prognostic value of ECG-LAE for new-onset HTN, new-onset stroke (STK), new-onset mitral regurgitation (MR), and new-onset Afib. Results: The DLM-enabled ECG achieved AUCs of 0.8127/0.8176 for diagnosing mild LAE, 0.8587/0.8688 for diagnosing moderate LAE, and 0.8899/0.8990 for diagnosing severe LAE in the internal/external validation sets. Notably, ECG-LAE had higher prognostic value compared to ECHO-LAE, which had C-indices of 0.711/0.714 compared to 0.695/0.692 for new-onset HTN, 0.676/0.688 compared to 0.663/0.677 for new-onset STK, 0.696/0.695 compared to 0.676/0.673 for new-onset MR, and 0.800/0.806 compared to 0.786/0.760 for new-onset Afib in internal/external validation sets, respectively. Conclusions: A DLM-enabled ECG could be considered as a LAE screening tool and provide better prognostic information for related cardiovascular diseases. Full article
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Novel and Efficient Quantitative Posterior-Circulation-Structure-Based Scale via Noncontrast CT to Predict Ischemic Stroke Prognosis: A Retrospective Study
by Wen-Hui Fang, Ying-Chu Chen, Ming-Chen Tsai, Pi-Shao Ko, Ding-Lian Wang and Sui-Lung Su
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(2), 138; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12020138 - 20 Jan 2022
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(1) Background: Posterior circulation ischemic stroke has high mortality and disability rates and requires an early prediction prognosis to provide the basis for an interventional approach. Current quantitative measures are only able to accurately assess the prognosis of patients using magnetic resonance imaging [...] Read more.
(1) Background: Posterior circulation ischemic stroke has high mortality and disability rates and requires an early prediction prognosis to provide the basis for an interventional approach. Current quantitative measures are only able to accurately assess the prognosis of patients using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, it is difficult to obtain MRI images in critically urgent cases. Therefore, the development of a noncontrast CT-based rapid-assist tool is needed to enhance the value of the clinical application. (2) Objective: This study aimed to develop an auxiliary-annotating noncontrast CT-efficient tool, which is based on a deep learning model, to provide a quantitative scale and the prognosis of posterior circulation ischemic stroke patients. (3) Methods: A total of 31 patients with posterior circulation ischemic stroke, diagnosed in the stroke registry at the Tri-Service General Hospital from November 2019 to July 2020, were included in the study, with a total of 578 CT images collected from noncontrast CT and MRI that were ≤ 3 days apart. A 5-fold cross validation was used to develop an image segmentation model to identify nine posterior circulation structures, and intersection over union (IoU) was used to assess the ability of the model to identify each structure. A quantitative score was integrated to assess the importance of the proportion of ischemic lesions in each posterior circulation structure, and the ROC curve was compared with the semiquantitative score for prognostic power. The prognoses of the patients were defined into two groups of 18 patients. An mRS score of 0–2 at discharge was defined as a good prognosis, while an mRS score of 3–6 was deemed to be a poor prognosis. (4) Results: The performance of the image segmentation model for identifying the nine posterior circulation structures in noncontrast CT images was evaluated. The IoU of the left cerebellum was 0.78, the IoU of the right cerebellum was 0.79, the IoU of the left occipital lobe was 0.74, the IoU of the right occipital lobe was 0.68, the IoU of the left thalamus was 0.73, the IoU of the right thalamus was 0.75, the IoU of the medulla oblongata was 0.82, and the IoU of the midbrain was 0.83. The prognostic AUC of posterior circulation patients predicted using a quantitative integrated score was 0.74, which was significantly higher than that of the pc-ASPECTS (AUC = 0.63, p = 0.035), with a sensitivity of 0.67 and a specificity of 0.72. (5) Conclusions: In this study, a deep learning model was used to develop a noncontrast CT-based quantitative integrated score tool, which is an effective tool for clinicians to assess the prognosis of posterior circulation ischemic stroke. Full article
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Detecting Blastocyst Components by Artificial Intelligence for Human Embryological Analysis to Improve Success Rate of In Vitro Fertilization
by Muhammad Arsalan, Adnan Haider, Jiho Choi and Kang Ryoung Park
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(2), 124; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12020124 - 18 Jan 2022
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Morphological attributes of human blastocyst components and their characteristics are highly correlated with the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Blastocyst component analysis aims to choose the most viable embryos to improve the success rate of IVF. The embryologist evaluates blastocyst viability [...] Read more.
Morphological attributes of human blastocyst components and their characteristics are highly correlated with the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Blastocyst component analysis aims to choose the most viable embryos to improve the success rate of IVF. The embryologist evaluates blastocyst viability by manual microscopic assessment of its components, such as zona pellucida (ZP), trophectoderm (TE), blastocoel (BL), and inner cell mass (ICM). With the success of deep learning in the medical diagnosis domain, semantic segmentation has the potential to detect crucial components of human blastocysts for computerized analysis. In this study, a sprint semantic segmentation network (SSS-Net) is proposed to accurately detect blastocyst components for embryological analysis. The proposed method is based on a fully convolutional semantic segmentation scheme that provides the pixel-wise classification of important blastocyst components that help to automatically check the morphologies of these elements. The proposed SSS-Net uses the sprint convolutional block (SCB), which uses asymmetric kernel convolutions in combination with depth-wise separable convolutions to reduce the overall cost of the network. SSS-Net is a shallow architecture with dense feature aggregation, which helps in better segmentation. The proposed SSS-Net consumes a smaller number of trainable parameters (4.04 million) compared to state-of-the-art methods. The SSS-Net was evaluated using a publicly available human blastocyst image dataset for component segmentation. The experimental results confirm that our proposal provides promising segmentation performance with a Jaccard Index of 82.88%, 77.40%, 88.39%, 84.94%, and 96.03% for ZP, TE, BL, ICM, and background, with residual connectivity, respectively. It is also provides a Jaccard Index of 84.51%, 78.15%, 88.68%, 84.50%, and 95.82% for ZP, TE, BL, ICM, and background, with dense connectivity, respectively. The proposed SSS-Net is providing a mean Jaccard Index (Mean JI) of 85.93% and 86.34% with residual and dense connectivity, respectively; this shows effective segmentation of blastocyst components for embryological analysis. Full article
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Solution in Personalized Computer-Aided Arthroscopy of Shoulder Prostheses
by Haseeb Sultan, Muhammad Owais, Jiho Choi, Tahir Mahmood, Adnan Haider, Nadeem Ullah and Kang Ryoung Park
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(1), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12010109 - 14 Jan 2022
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Background: Early recognition of prostheses before reoperation can reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality. Because of the intricacy of the shoulder biomechanics, accurate classification of implant models before surgery is fundamental for planning the correct medical procedure and setting apparatus for personalized medicine. Expert [...] Read more.
Background: Early recognition of prostheses before reoperation can reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality. Because of the intricacy of the shoulder biomechanics, accurate classification of implant models before surgery is fundamental for planning the correct medical procedure and setting apparatus for personalized medicine. Expert surgeons usually use X-ray images of prostheses to set the patient-specific apparatus. However, this subjective method is time-consuming and prone to errors. Method: As an alternative, artificial intelligence has played a vital role in orthopedic surgery and clinical decision-making for accurate prosthesis placement. In this study, three different deep learning-based frameworks are proposed to identify different types of shoulder implants in X-ray scans. We mainly propose an efficient ensemble network called the Inception Mobile Fully-Connected Convolutional Network (IMFC-Net), which is comprised of our two designed convolutional neural networks and a classifier. To evaluate the performance of the IMFC-Net and state-of-the-art models, experiments were performed with a public data set of 597 de-identified patients (597 shoulder implants). Moreover, to demonstrate the generalizability of IMFC-Net, experiments were performed with two augmentation techniques and without augmentation, in which our model ranked first, with a considerable difference from the comparison models. A gradient-weighted class activation map technique was also used to find distinct implant characteristics needed for IMFC-Net classification decisions. Results: The results confirmed that the proposed IMFC-Net model yielded an average accuracy of 89.09%, a precision rate of 89.54%, a recall rate of 86.57%, and an F1.score of 87.94%, which were higher than those of the comparison models. Conclusion: The proposed model is efficient and can minimize the revision complexities of implants. Full article
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Low-Parameter Small Convolutional Neural Network Applied to Functional Medical Imaging of Tc-99m Trodat-1 Brain Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography for Parkinson’s Disease
by Yu-Chieh Chang, Te-Chun Hsieh, Jui-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Pin Wang, Zong-Kai Hsu, Pak-Ki Chan and Chia-Hung Kao
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12010001 - 21 Dec 2021
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Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive disease that affects movement, is related to dopaminergic neuron degeneration. Tc-99m Trodat-1 brain (TRODAT) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) aids the functional imaging of dopamine transporters and is used for dopaminergic neuron enumeration. Herein, we employed a convolutional [...] Read more.
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive disease that affects movement, is related to dopaminergic neuron degeneration. Tc-99m Trodat-1 brain (TRODAT) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) aids the functional imaging of dopamine transporters and is used for dopaminergic neuron enumeration. Herein, we employed a convolutional neural network to facilitate PD diagnosis through TRODAT SPECT, which is simpler than models such as VGG16 and ResNet50. We retrospectively collected the data of 3188 patients (age range 20–107 years) who underwent TRODAT SPECT between June 2011 and December 2019. We developed a set of functional imaging multiclassification deep learning algorithms suitable for TRODAT SPECT on the basis of the annotations of medical experts. We then applied our self-proposed model and compared its results with those of four other models, including deep and machine learning models. TRODAT SPECT included three images collected from each patient: one presenting the maximum absorption of the metabolic function of the striatum and two adjacent images. An expert physician determined that our model’s accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score were 0.98, 0.98, 0.98, and 0.98, respectively. Our TRODAT SPECT model provides an objective, more standardized classification correlating to the severity of PD-related diseases, thereby facilitating clinical diagnosis and preventing observer bias. Full article
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Detection of Bone Metastases on Bone Scans through Image Classification with Contrastive Learning
by Te-Chun Hsieh, Chiung-Wei Liao, Yung-Chi Lai, Kin-Man Law, Pak-Ki Chan and Chia-Hung Kao
J. Pers. Med. 2021, 11(12), 1248; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11121248 - 24 Nov 2021
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Patients with bone metastases have poor prognoses. A bone scan is a commonly applied diagnostic tool for this condition. However, its accuracy is limited by the nonspecific character of radiopharmaceutical accumulation, which indicates all-cause bone remodeling. The current study evaluated deep learning techniques [...] Read more.
Patients with bone metastases have poor prognoses. A bone scan is a commonly applied diagnostic tool for this condition. However, its accuracy is limited by the nonspecific character of radiopharmaceutical accumulation, which indicates all-cause bone remodeling. The current study evaluated deep learning techniques to improve the efficacy of bone metastasis detection on bone scans, retrospectively examining 19,041 patients aged 22 to 92 years who underwent bone scans between May 2011 and December 2019. We developed several functional imaging binary classification deep learning algorithms suitable for bone scans. The presence or absence of bone metastases as a reference standard was determined through a review of image reports by nuclear medicine physicians. Classification was conducted with convolutional neural network-based (CNN-based), residual neural network (ResNet), and densely connected convolutional networks (DenseNet) models, with and without contrastive learning. Each set of bone scans contained anterior and posterior images with resolutions of 1024 × 256 pixels. A total of 37,427 image sets were analyzed. The overall performance of all models improved with contrastive learning. The accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, and negative predictive value (NPV) for the optimal model were 0.961, 0.878, 0.599, 0.712, 0.92 and 0.965, respectively. In particular, the high NPV may help physicians safely exclude bone metastases, decreasing physician workload, and improving patient care. Full article
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An Artificial Intelligence-Based Alarm Strategy Facilitates Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction
by Wen-Cheng Liu, Chin Lin, Chin-Sheng Lin, Min-Chien Tsai, Sy-Jou Chen, Shih-Hung Tsai, Wei-Shiang Lin, Chia-Cheng Lee, Tien-Ping Tsao and Cheng-Chung Cheng
J. Pers. Med. 2021, 11(11), 1149; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11111149 - 04 Nov 2021
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(1) Background: While an artificial intelligence (AI)-based, cardiologist-level, deep-learning model for detecting acute myocardial infarction (AMI), based on a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), has been established to have extraordinary capabilities, its real-world performance and clinical applications are currently unknown. (2) Methods and Results: To [...] Read more.
(1) Background: While an artificial intelligence (AI)-based, cardiologist-level, deep-learning model for detecting acute myocardial infarction (AMI), based on a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), has been established to have extraordinary capabilities, its real-world performance and clinical applications are currently unknown. (2) Methods and Results: To set up an artificial intelligence-based alarm strategy (AI-S) for detecting AMI, we assembled a strategy development cohort including 25,002 visits from August 2019 to April 2020 and a prospective validation cohort including 14,296 visits from May to August 2020 at an emergency department. The components of AI-S consisted of chest pain symptoms, a 12-lead ECG, and high-sensitivity troponin I. The primary endpoint was to assess the performance of AI-S in the prospective validation cohort by evaluating F-measure, precision, and recall. The secondary endpoint was to evaluate the impact on door-to-balloon (DtoB) time before and after AI-S implementation in STEMI patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). Patients with STEMI were alerted precisely by AI-S (F-measure = 0.932, precision of 93.2%, recall of 93.2%). Strikingly, in comparison with pre-AI-S (N = 57) and post-AI-S (N = 32) implantation in STEMI protocol, the median ECG-to-cardiac catheterization laboratory activation (EtoCCLA) time was significantly reduced from 6.0 (IQR, 5.0–8.0 min) to 4.0 min (IQR, 3.0–5.0 min) (p < 0.01). The median DtoB time was shortened from 69 (IQR, 61.0–82.0 min) to 61 min (IQR, 56.8–73.2 min) (p = 0.037). (3) Conclusions: AI-S offers front-line physicians a timely and reliable diagnostic decision-support system, thereby significantly reducing EtoCCLA and DtoB time, and facilitating the PPCI process. Nevertheless, large-scale, multi-institute, prospective, or randomized control studies are necessary to further confirm its real-world performance. Full article
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Data Mining
by Amjad Zia, Muzzamil Aziz, Ioana Popa, Sabih Ahmed Khan, Amirreza Fazely Hamedani and Abdul R. Asif
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(9), 1359; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12091359 - 24 Aug 2022
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Understanding published unstructured textual data using traditional text mining approaches and tools is becoming a challenging issue due to the rapid increase in electronic open-source publications. The application of data mining techniques in the medical sciences is an emerging trend; however, traditional text-mining [...] Read more.
Understanding published unstructured textual data using traditional text mining approaches and tools is becoming a challenging issue due to the rapid increase in electronic open-source publications. The application of data mining techniques in the medical sciences is an emerging trend; however, traditional text-mining approaches are insufficient to cope with the current upsurge in the volume of published data. Therefore, artificial intelligence-based text mining tools are being developed and used to process large volumes of data and to explore the hidden features and correlations in the data. This review provides a clear-cut and insightful understanding of how artificial intelligence-based data-mining technology is being used to analyze medical data. We also describe a standard process of data mining based on CRISP-DM (Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) and the most common tools/libraries available for each step of medical data mining. Full article
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Recent Deep and Federated-Learning-Based Methodologies for Brain Tumor Diagnosis
by Ahmad Naeem, Tayyaba Anees, Rizwan Ali Naqvi and Woong-Kee Loh
J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12(2), 275; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12020275 - 13 Feb 2022
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Brain tumors are a deadly disease with a high mortality rate. Early diagnosis of brain tumors improves treatment, which results in a better survival rate for patients. Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently emerged as an assistive technology for the early diagnosis of tumors, [...] Read more.
Brain tumors are a deadly disease with a high mortality rate. Early diagnosis of brain tumors improves treatment, which results in a better survival rate for patients. Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently emerged as an assistive technology for the early diagnosis of tumors, and AI is the primary focus of researchers in the diagnosis of brain tumors. This study provides an overview of recent research on the diagnosis of brain tumors using federated and deep learning methods. The primary objective is to explore the performance of deep and federated learning methods and evaluate their accuracy in the diagnosis process. A systematic literature review is provided, discussing the open issues and challenges, which are likely to guide future researchers working in the field of brain tumor diagnosis. Full article
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