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Khan I, Khare BK. Exploring the potential of machine learning in gynecological care: a review. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2024; 309:2347-2365. [PMID: 38625543 DOI: 10.1007/s00404-024-07479-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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Gynecological health remains a critical aspect of women's overall well-being, with profound implications for maternal and reproductive outcomes. This comprehensive review synthesizes the current state of knowledge on four pivotal aspects of gynecological health: preterm birth, breast cancer and cervical cancer and infertility treatment. Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize gynecology and women's healthcare. The subsets of AI, namely, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods, have aided in detecting complex patterns from huge datasets and using such patterns in making predictions. This paper investigates how machine learning (ML) algorithms are employed in the field of gynecology to tackle crucial issues pertaining to women's health. This paper also investigates the integration of ultrasound technology with artificial intelligence (AI) during the initial, intermediate, and final stages of pregnancy. Additionally, it delves into the diverse applications of AI throughout each trimester.This review paper provides an overview of machine learning (ML) models, introduces natural language processing (NLP) concepts, including ChatGPT, and discusses the clinical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in gynecology. Additionally, the paper outlines the challenges in utilizing machine learning within the field of gynecology.
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- Imran Khan
- Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India.
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Jager F. An open dataset with electrohysterogram records of pregnancies ending in induced and cesarean section delivery. Sci Data 2023; 10:669. [PMID: 37783671 PMCID: PMC10545725 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02581-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
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The existing non-invasive automated preterm birth prediction methods rely on the use of uterine electrohysterogram (EHG) records coming from spontaneous preterm and term deliveries, and are indifferent to term induced and cesarean section deliveries. In order to enhance current publicly available pool of term EHG records, we developed a new EHG dataset, Induced Cesarean EHG DataSet (ICEHG DS), containing 126 30-minute EHG records, recorded early (23rd week), and/or later (31st week) during pregnancy, of those pregnancies that were expected to end in spontaneous term delivery, but ended in induced or cesarean section delivery. The records were collected at the University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. The dataset includes 38 and 43, early and later, induced; 11 and 8, early and later, cesarean; and 13 and 13, early and later, induced and cesarean EHG records. This dataset enables better understanding of the underlying physiological mechanisms involved during pregnancies ending in induced and cesarean deliveries, and provides a robust and more realistic assessment of the performance of automated preterm birth prediction methods.
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- Franc Jager
- Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Fischer A, Rietveld A, Teunissen P, Bakker P, Hoogendoorn M. End-to-end learning with interpretation on electrohysterography data to predict preterm birth. Comput Biol Med 2023; 158:106846. [PMID: 37019011 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Prediction of preterm birth is a difficult task for clinicians. By examining an electrohysterogram, electrical activity of the uterus that can lead to preterm birth can be detected. Since signals associated with uterine activity are difficult to interpret for clinicians without a background in signal processing, machine learning may be a viable solution. We are the first to employ Deep Learning models, a long-short term memory and temporal convolutional network model, on electrohysterography data using the Term-Preterm Electrohysterogram database. We show that end-to-end learning achieves an AUC score of 0.58, which is comparable to machine learning models that use handcrafted features. Moreover, we evaluate the effect of adding clinical data to the model and conclude that adding the available clinical data to electrohysterography data does not result in a gain in performance. Also, we propose an interpretability framework for time series classification that is well-suited to use in case of limited data, as opposed to existing methods that require large amounts of data. Clinicians with extensive work experience as gynaecologist used our framework to provide insights on how to link our results to clinical practice and stress that in order to decrease the number of false positives, a dataset with patients at high risk of preterm birth should be collected. All code is made publicly available.
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Nsugbe E, Reyes‐Lagos JJ, Adams D, Samuel OW. On the prediction of premature births in Hispanic labour patients using uterine contractions, heart beat signals and prediction machines. Healthc Technol Lett 2023; 10:11-22. [PMID: 37077881 PMCID: PMC10107387 DOI: 10.1049/htl2.12044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023] Open
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Preterm birth is a global epidemic affecting millions of mothers across different ethnicities. The cause of the condition remains unknown but has recognised health-based implications, in addition to financial and economic ones. Machine Learning methods have enabled researchers to combine datasets using uterine contraction signals with various forms of prediction machines to improve awareness of the likelihood of premature births. This work investigates the feasibility of enhancing these prediction methods using physiological signals including uterine contractions, and foetal and maternal heart rate signals, for a population of south American women in active labour. As part of this work, the use of the Linear Series Decomposition Learner (LSDL) was seen to lead to an improvement in the prediction accuracies of all models, which included supervised and unsupervised learning models. The results from the supervised learning models showed high prediction metrics upon the physiological signals being pre-processed by the LSDL for all variations of the physiological signals. The unsupervised learning models showed good metrics for the partitioning of Preterm/Term labour patients from their uterine contraction signals but produced a comparatively lower set of results for the various kinds of heart rate signals investigated.
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- School of ComputingUlster UniversityNewtownabbeyUK
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Goldsztejn U, Nehorai A. Predicting preterm births from electrohysterogram recordings via deep learning. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0285219. [PMID: 37167222 PMCID: PMC10174487 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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About one in ten babies is born preterm, i.e., before completing 37 weeks of gestation, which can result in permanent neurologic deficit and is a leading cause of child mortality. Although imminent preterm labor can be detected, predicting preterm births more than one week in advance remains elusive. Here, we develop a deep learning method to predict preterm births directly from electrohysterogram (EHG) measurements of pregnant mothers recorded at around 31 weeks of gestation. We developed a prediction model, which includes a recurrent neural network, to predict preterm births using short-time Fourier transforms of EHG recordings and clinical information from two public datasets. We predicted preterm births with an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.78 (95% confidence interval: 0.76-0.80). Moreover, we found that the spectral patterns of the measurements were more predictive than the temporal patterns, suggesting that preterm births can be predicted from short EHG recordings in an automated process. We show that preterm births can be predicted for pregnant mothers around their 31st week of gestation, prompting beneficial treatments to reduce the incidence of preterm births and improve their outcomes.
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- Uri Goldsztejn
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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- Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America
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Diaz-Martinez A, Monfort-Ortiz R, Ye-Lin Y, Garcia-Casado J, Nieto-Tous M, Nieto-Del-Amor F, Diago-Almela V, Prats-Boluda G. Uterine myoelectrical activity as biomarker of successful induction with Dinoprostone: Influence of parity. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2022.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Pirnar Ž, Jager F, Geršak K. Characterization and separation of preterm and term spontaneous, induced, and cesarean EHG records. Comput Biol Med 2022; 151:106238. [PMID: 36343404 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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To improve the understanding of the underlying physiological processes that lead to preterm birth, and different term delivery modes, we quantitatively characterized and assessed the separability of the sets of early (23rd week) and later (31st week) recorded, preterm and term spontaneous, induced, cesarean, and induced-cesarean electrohysterogram (EHG) records using several of the most widely used non-linear features extracted from the EHG signals. Linearly modeled temporal trends of the means of the median frequencies (MFs), and of the means of the peak amplitudes (PAs) of the normalized power spectra of the EHG signals, along pregnancy (from early to later recorded records), derived from a variety of frequency bands, revealed that for the preterm group of records, in comparison to all other term delivery groups, the frequency spectrum of the frequency band B0L (0.08-0.3 Hz) shifts toward higher frequencies, and that the spectrum of the newly identified frequency band B0L' (0.125-0.575 Hz), which approximately matches the Fast Wave Low band, becomes stronger. The most promising features to separate between the later preterm group and all other later term delivery groups appear to be MF (p=1.1⋅10-5) in the band B0L of the horizontal signal S3, and PA (p=2.4⋅10-8) in the band B0L' (S3). Moreover, the PA in the band B0L' (S3) showed the highest power to individually separate between the later preterm group and any other later term delivery group. Furthermore, the results suggest that in preterm pregnancies the resting maternal heart rate decreases between the 23rd and 31st week of gestation.
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- Žiga Pirnar
- Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; University Medical Center Ljubljana, Zaloška cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Paljk Likar I, Becic E, Pezdirc N, Gersak K, Lucovnik M, Trojner Bregar A. Comparison of Oxytocin vs. Carbetocin Uterotonic Activity after Caesarean Delivery Assessed by Electrohysterography: A Randomised Trial. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:8994. [PMID: 36433591 PMCID: PMC9698977 DOI: 10.3390/s22228994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2022] [Revised: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Electrohysterography has been used for monitoring uterine contractility in pregnancy and labour. Effective uterine contractility is crucial for preventing postpartum haemorrhage. The objective of our study was to compare postpartum electrohysterograms in women receiving oxytocin vs. carbetocin for postpartum haemorrhage prevention after caesarean delivery. The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov with the identifier NCT04201665. We included 64 healthy women with uncomplicated singleton pregnancies at term scheduled for caesarean section after one previous caesarean section. After surgery, a 15 min electrohysterogram was obtained after which women were randomised to receive either five IU of oxytocin intravenously or 100 μg of carbetocin intramuscularly. A 30 min electrohysterogram was performed two hours after drug application. Changes in power density spectrum peak frequency of electrohysterogram pseudo-bursts were analysed. A significant reduction in power density spectrum peak frequency in the first two hours was observed after carbetocin but not after oxytocin (median = 0.07 (interquartile range (IQR): 0.87 Hz) compared to median = -0.63 (IQR: 0.20) Hz; p = 0.004). Electrohysterography can be used for objective comparison of uterotonic effects. We found significantly higher power density spectrum peak frequency two hours after oxytocin compared to carbetocin.
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- Ivana Paljk Likar
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Perinatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Perinatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Perinatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Perinatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Khan M, Khurshid M, Vatsa M, Singh R, Duggal M, Singh K. On AI Approaches for Promoting Maternal and Neonatal Health in Low Resource Settings: A Review. Front Public Health 2022; 10:880034. [PMID: 36249249 PMCID: PMC9562034 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.880034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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A significant challenge for hospitals and medical practitioners in low- and middle-income nations is the lack of sufficient health care facilities for timely medical diagnosis of chronic and deadly diseases. Particularly, maternal and neonatal morbidity due to various non-communicable and nutrition related diseases is a serious public health issue that leads to several deaths every year. These diseases affecting either mother or child can be hospital-acquired, contracted during pregnancy or delivery, postpartum and even during child growth and development. Many of these conditions are challenging to detect at their early stages, which puts the patient at risk of developing severe conditions over time. Therefore, there is a need for early screening, detection and diagnosis, which could reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital technologies have emerged as practical assistive tools in different healthcare sectors but are still in their nascent stages when applied to maternal and neonatal health. This review article presents an in-depth examination of digital solutions proposed for maternal and neonatal healthcare in low resource settings and discusses the open problems as well as future research directions.
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- Misaal Khan
- Department of Smart Healthcare, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, India,All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, India,*Correspondence: Mayank Vatsa
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, India
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- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
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Abraham A, Le B, Kosti I, Straub P, Velez-Edwards DR, Davis LK, Newton JM, Muglia LJ, Rokas A, Bejan CA, Sirota M, Capra JA. Dense phenotyping from electronic health records enables machine learning-based prediction of preterm birth. BMC Med 2022; 20:333. [PMID: 36167547 PMCID: PMC9516830 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-022-02522-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Identifying pregnancies at risk for preterm birth, one of the leading causes of worldwide infant mortality, has the potential to improve prenatal care. However, we lack broadly applicable methods to accurately predict preterm birth risk. The dense longitudinal information present in electronic health records (EHRs) is enabling scalable and cost-efficient risk modeling of many diseases, but EHR resources have been largely untapped in the study of pregnancy. METHODS Here, we apply machine learning to diverse data from EHRs with 35,282 deliveries to predict singleton preterm birth. RESULTS We find that machine learning models based on billing codes alone can predict preterm birth risk at various gestational ages (e.g., ROC-AUC = 0.75, PR-AUC = 0.40 at 28 weeks of gestation) and outperform comparable models trained using known risk factors (e.g., ROC-AUC = 0.65, PR-AUC = 0.25 at 28 weeks). Examining the patterns learned by the model reveals it stratifies deliveries into interpretable groups, including high-risk preterm birth subtypes enriched for distinct comorbidities. Our machine learning approach also predicts preterm birth subtypes (spontaneous vs. indicated), mode of delivery, and recurrent preterm birth. Finally, we demonstrate the portability of our approach by showing that the prediction models maintain their accuracy on a large, independent cohort (5978 deliveries) from a different healthcare system. CONCLUSIONS By leveraging rich phenotypic and genetic features derived from EHRs, we suggest that machine learning algorithms have great potential to improve medical care during pregnancy. However, further work is needed before these models can be applied in clinical settings.
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- Abin Abraham
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
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Lee KS, Ham BJ. Machine Learning on Early Diagnosis of Depression. Psychiatry Investig 2022; 19:597-605. [PMID: 36059048 PMCID: PMC9441463 DOI: 10.30773/pi.2022.0075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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To review the recent progress of machine learning for the early diagnosis of depression (major depressive disorder). The source of data was 32 original studies in the Web of Science. The search terms were "depression" (title) and "random forest" (abstract). The eligibility criteria were the dependent variable of depression, the interventions of machine learning (the decision tree, the naïve Bayesian, the random forest, the support vector machine and/or the artificial neural network), the outcomes of accuracy and/or the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for the early diagnosis of depression, the publication year of 2000 or later, the publication language of English and the publication journal of SCIE/SSCI. Different machine learning methods would be appropriate for different types of data for the early diagnosis of depression, e.g., logistic regression, the random forest, the support vector machine and/or the artificial neural network in the case of numeric data, the random forest in the case of genomic data. Their performance measures reported varied within 60.1-100.0 for accuracy and 64.0-96.0 for the AUC. Machine learning provides an effective, non-invasive decision support system for early diagnosis of depression.
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- Kwang-Sig Lee
- AI Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mental Health, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Nieto-del-Amor F, Prats-Boluda G, Garcia-Casado J, Diaz-Martinez A, Diago-Almela VJ, Monfort-Ortiz R, Hao D, Ye-Lin Y. Combination of Feature Selection and Resampling Methods to Predict Preterm Birth Based on Electrohysterographic Signals from Imbalance Data. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22145098. [PMID: 35890778 PMCID: PMC9319575 DOI: 10.3390/s22145098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Due to its high sensitivity, electrohysterography (EHG) has emerged as an alternative technique for predicting preterm labor. The main obstacle in designing preterm labor prediction models is the inherent preterm/term imbalance ratio, which can give rise to relatively low performance. Numerous studies obtained promising preterm labor prediction results using the synthetic minority oversampling technique. However, these studies generally overestimate mathematical models’ real generalization capacity by generating synthetic data before splitting the dataset, leaking information between the training and testing partitions and thus reducing the complexity of the classification task. In this work, we analyzed the effect of combining feature selection and resampling methods to overcome the class imbalance problem for predicting preterm labor by EHG. We assessed undersampling, oversampling, and hybrid methods applied to the training and validation dataset during feature selection by genetic algorithm, and analyzed the resampling effect on training data after obtaining the optimized feature subset. The best strategy consisted of undersampling the majority class of the validation dataset to 1:1 during feature selection, without subsequent resampling of the training data, achieving an AUC of 94.5 ± 4.6%, average precision of 84.5 ± 11.7%, maximum F1-score of 79.6 ± 13.8%, and recall of 89.8 ± 12.1%. Our results outperformed the techniques currently used in clinical practice, suggesting the EHG could be used to predict preterm labor in clinics.
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- Félix Nieto-del-Amor
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (Y.Y.-L.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (Y.Y.-L.)
- Correspondence:
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (Y.Y.-L.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (Y.Y.-L.)
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U.P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain; (V.J.D.-A.); (R.M.-O.)
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- Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Transformation, Beijing 100124, China;
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (Y.Y.-L.)
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Lou H, Liu H, Chen Z, Zhen Z, Dong B, Xu J. Bio-process inspired characterization of pregnancy evolution using entropy and its application in preterm birth detection. Biomed Signal Process Control 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2022.103587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Introduction to Machine Learning in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Obstet Gynecol 2022; 139:669-679. [PMID: 35272300 DOI: 10.1097/aog.0000000000004706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
In the digital age of the 21st century, we have witnessed an explosion in data matched by remarkable progress in the field of computer science and engineering, with the development of powerful and portable artificial intelligence-powered technologies. At the same time, global connectivity powered by mobile technology has led to an increasing number of connected users and connected devices. In just the past 5 years, the convergence of these technologies in obstetrics and gynecology has resulted in the development of innovative artificial intelligence-powered digital health devices that allow easy and accurate patient risk stratification for an array of conditions spanning early pregnancy, labor and delivery, and care of the newborn. Yet, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and other new and emerging technologies currently have a slow adoption rate in medicine, despite the availability of large data sets that include individual electronic health records spanning years of care, genomics, and the microbiome. As a result, patient interactions with health care remain burdened by antiquated processes that are inefficient and inconvenient. A few health care institutions have recognized these gaps and, with an influx of venture capital investments, are now making in-roads in medical practice with digital products driven by artificial intelligence algorithms. In this article, we trace the history, applications, and ethical challenges of the artificial intelligence that will be at the forefront of digitally transforming obstetrics and gynecology and medical practice in general.
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Prediction of Preterm Delivery from Unbalanced EHG Database. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22041507. [PMID: 35214412 PMCID: PMC8878555 DOI: 10.3390/s22041507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Objective: The early prediction of preterm labor can significantly minimize premature delivery complications for both the mother and infant. The aim of this research is to propose an automatic algorithm for the prediction of preterm labor using a single electrohysterogram (EHG) signal. Method: The proposed method firstly employs empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to split the EHG signal into two intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), then extracts sample entropy (SampEn), the root mean square (RMS), and the mean Teager–Kaiser energy (MTKE) from each IMF to form the feature vector. Finally, the extracted features are fed to a k-nearest neighbors (kNN), support vector machine (SVM), and decision tree (DT) classifiers to predict whether the recorded EHG signal refers to the preterm case. Main results: The studied database consists of 262 term and 38 preterm delivery pregnancies, each with three EHG channels, recorded for 30 min. The SVM with a polynomial kernel achieved the best result, with an average sensitivity of 99.5%, a specificity of 99.7%, and an accuracy of 99.7%. This was followed by DT, with a mean sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 98.4%, and an accuracy of 98.7%. Significance: The main superiority of the proposed method over the state-of-the-art algorithms that studied the same database is the use of only a single EHG channel without using either synthetic data generation or feature ranking algorithms.
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Xu J, Wang M, Zhang J, Chen Z, Huang W, Shen G, Zhang M. Network theory based EHG signal analysis and its application in preterm prediction. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2022; 26:2876-2887. [PMID: 34986107 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2022.3140427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Early identification of high-risk patients followed by medical interventions is essential to the prevention of preterm birth. Based on the relationship between uterine contraction and the fundamental electrical activities of muscles, we extracted effective features from EHG signals recorded from pregnant women, and use them to train classifiers with the purpose of providing high precision in classifying term and preterm pregnancies. METHODS To characterize changes from irregularity to coherence of the uterine activity during the whole pregnancy, network representations of the original electrohysterogram (EHG) signals are established by applying the Horizontal Visibility Graph (HVG) algorithm, from which we extract network degree density and distribution, clustering coefficient and assortativity coefficient. Concerns on the interferences of different noise sources embedded in the EHG signal, we apply Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) to expand the original signal in the time-frequency domain. This allows a network representation and the extraction of related features on each frequency component. Feature selection algorithms are then used to filter out unrelated frequency components. We further apply the proposed feature extraction method to EHG signals available in the Term-Preterm EHG database (TPEHG), and use them to train classifiers. We adopt the Partition-Synthesis scheme which splits the original imbalanced dataset into two sets and synthesizes artificial samples separately within each subset to solve the problem of dataset imbalance. RESULTS The optimally selected network-based features, not only contribute to the identification of the essential frequency components of uterine activities related to preterm birth, but also to improved performance in classifying term/preterm pregnancies, i.e., the SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier trained with the available samples in the TPEHG gives sensitivity, specificity, overall accuracy, and auc values as high as 0.89, 0.93, 0.91, and 0.97, respectively.
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Artificial intelligence in obstetrics. Obstet Gynecol Sci 2021; 65:113-124. [PMID: 34905872 PMCID: PMC8942755 DOI: 10.5468/ogs.21234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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This study reviews recent advances on the application of artificial intelligence for the early diagnosis of various maternal-fetal conditions such as preterm birth and abnormal fetal growth. It is found in this study that various machine learning methods have been successfully employed for different kinds of data capture with regard to early diagnosis of maternal-fetal conditions. With the more popular use of artificial intelligence, ethical issues should also be considered accordingly.
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Nsugbe E, Obajemu O, Samuel OW, Sanusi I. Enhancing care strategies for preterm pregnancies by using a prediction machine to aid clinical care decisions. MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mlwa.2021.100110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Nsugbe E. A cybernetic framework for predicting preterm and enhancing care strategies: A review. BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ADVANCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bea.2021.100024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Zhang Y, Lu S, Wu Y, Hu W, Yuan Z. Prediction of Preterm Using Time Series Technology Based Machine Learning: Retrospective Cohort Study (Preprint). JMIR Med Inform 2021; 10:e33835. [PMID: 35700004 PMCID: PMC9237764 DOI: 10.2196/33835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hangzhou Women's Hospital, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Affiliated Hangzhou Women's Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hangzhou Women's Hospital, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Affiliated Hangzhou Women's Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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Nieto-del-Amor F, Beskhani R, Ye-Lin Y, Garcia-Casado J, Diaz-Martinez A, Monfort-Ortiz R, Diago-Almela VJ, Hao D, Prats-Boluda G. Assessment of Dispersion and Bubble Entropy Measures for Enhancing Preterm Birth Prediction Based on Electrohysterographic Signals. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21186071. [PMID: 34577278 PMCID: PMC8471282 DOI: 10.3390/s21186071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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One of the remaining challenges for the scientific-technical community is predicting preterm births, for which electrohysterography (EHG) has emerged as a highly sensitive prediction technique. Sample and fuzzy entropy have been used to characterize EHG signals, although they require optimizing many internal parameters. Both bubble entropy, which only requires one internal parameter, and dispersion entropy, which can detect any changes in frequency and amplitude, have been proposed to characterize biomedical signals. In this work, we attempted to determine the clinical value of these entropy measures for predicting preterm birth by analyzing their discriminatory capacity as an individual feature and their complementarity to other EHG characteristics by developing six prediction models using obstetrical data, linear and non-linear EHG features, and linear discriminant analysis using a genetic algorithm to select the features. Both dispersion and bubble entropy better discriminated between the preterm and term groups than sample, spectral, and fuzzy entropy. Entropy metrics provided complementary information to linear features, and indeed, the improvement in model performance by including other non-linear features was negligible. The best model performance obtained an F1-score of 90.1 ± 2% for testing the dataset. This model can easily be adapted to real-time applications, thereby contributing to the transferability of the EHG technique to clinical practice.
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- Félix Nieto-del-Amor
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (R.B.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (G.P.-B.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (R.B.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (G.P.-B.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (R.B.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (G.P.-B.)
- Correspondence:
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (R.B.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (G.P.-B.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (R.B.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (G.P.-B.)
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U.P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain; (R.M.-O.); (V.J.D.-A.)
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- Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Transformation, Beijing 100124, China;
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (F.N.-d.-A.); (R.B.); (J.G.-C.); (A.D.-M.); (G.P.-B.)
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Nsugbe E, Samuel OW, Sanusi I, Asogbon MG, Li G. A study on preterm birth predictions using physiological signals, medical health record information and low‐dimensional embedding methods. IET CYBER-SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS 2021. [DOI: 10.1049/csy2.12031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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- Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield Sheffield UK
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- Nsugbe Research Labs Swindon UK
- Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen China
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Application of noninvasive magnetomyography in labour imminency prediction for term and preterm pregnancies and ethnicity specific labour prediction. MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mlwa.2021.100066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Preterm-term birth classification using EMD-based time-domain features of single-channel electrohysterogram data. Phys Eng Sci Med 2021; 44:1151-1159. [PMID: 34463948 DOI: 10.1007/s13246-021-01051-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Preterm birth anticipation is a crucial task that can reduce both the rate and the complications of preterm birth. Electrohysterogram (EHG) or uterine electromyogram (EMG) data have shown that they can provide useful information for preterm birth anticipation. Four distinct time-domain features (mean absolute value, average amplitude change, difference in absolute standard deviation value, and log detector) that are commonly applied to EMG signal processing were utilized and investigated in this study. A single channel of EHG data was decomposed into its constituent components (i.e., into intrinsic mode functions) by using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) before their time-domain features were extracted. The time-domain features of the intrinsic mode functions of the EHG data associated with preterm and term births were applied for preterm-term birth classification by using a support vector machine with a radial basis function. The preterm-term birth classifications were validated by using 10-fold cross validation. From the computational results, it was shown that excellent preterm-term birth classification can be achieved by using single-channel EHG data. The computational results further suggested that the best overall performance concerning preterm-term birth classification was obtained when thirteen (out of sixteen) EMD-based time-domain features were applied. The best accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and [Formula: see text]-score achieved were 0.9382, 0.9130, 0.9634, and 0.9366, respectively.
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Rocha TAH, de Thomaz EBAF, de Almeida DG, da Silva NC, Queiroz RCDS, Andrade L, Facchini LA, Sartori MLL, Costa DB, Campos MAG, da Silva AAM, Staton C, Vissoci JRN. Data-driven risk stratification for preterm birth in Brazil: a population-based study to develop of a machine learning risk assessment approach. LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH. AMERICAS 2021; 3:100053. [PMID: 36777406 PMCID: PMC9904131 DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2021.100053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 08/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Background Preterm birth (PTB) is a growing health issue worldwide, currently considered the leading cause of newborn deaths. To address this challenge, the present work aims to develop an algorithm capable of accurately predicting the week of delivery supporting the identification of a PTB in Brazil. Methods This a population-based study analyzing data from 3,876,666 mothers with live births distributed across the 3,929 Brazilian municipalities. Using indicators comprising delivery characteristics, primary care work processes, and physical infrastructure, and sociodemographic data we applied a machine learning-based approach to estimate the week of delivery at the point of care level. We tested six algorithms: eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Elastic Net, Quantile Ordinal Regression - LASSO, Linear Regression, Ridge Regression and Decision Tree. We used the root-mean-square error (RMSE) as a precision. Findings All models obtained RMSE indexes close to each other. The lower levels of RMSE were obtained using the eXtreme Gradient Boosting approach which was able to estimate the week of delivery within a 2.09 window 95%IC (2.090-2.097). The five most important variables to predict the week of delivery were: number of previous deliveries through Cesarean-Section, number of prenatal consultations, age of the mother, existence of ultrasound exam available in the care network, and proportion of primary care teams in the municipality registering the oral care consultation. Interpretation Using simple data describing the prenatal care offered, as well as minimal characteristics of the pregnant, our approach was capable of achieving a relevant predictive performance regarding the week of delivery. Funding Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Brazil, (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPQ acronym in portuguese) Support of the research project named: Data-Driven Risk Stratification for Preterm Birth in Brazil: Development of a Machine Learning-Based Innovation for Health Care- Grant: OPP1202186.
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- Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha
- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America,Corresponding author: Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Duke University
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- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Nursing, State University of the West of Parana, Foz do Iguaçu, Parana, Brazil
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- Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- The Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Duke Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA. Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA. Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Russo S, Batista A, Esgalhado F, Palma dos Reis CR, Serrano F, Vassilenko V, Ortigueira M. Alvarez waves in pregnancy: a comprehensive review. Biophys Rev 2021; 13:563-574. [PMID: 34471439 PMCID: PMC8355272 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-021-00818-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Alvarez waves are local rhythmic contractions of the myometrium with high frequency and low intensity. They can be detected using internal or external tocography and electrohysterography. Some researchers correlate these small contractions with the initiation of labor, since they have been described as a pattern representing the uterine response to prostaglandin production. Other authors either do not validate a causality relation between Alvarez waves and labor or suggest that they have low predictive value for preterm labor. Alvarez waves' research has become a multidisciplinary subject with inputs ranging from medical science, biomedical engineering, and related areas. A comprehensive review is herein conducted to summarize the state of the art regarding Alvarez waves and their role in the initiation of labor, namely in preterm birth. The results show that a large number of studies have analyzed and characterized Alvarez waves without necessarily digging into their relationship with labor. Publications were categorized in three groups: (A) reports about morphology and characterization of Alvarez waves; (B) publications reporting a positive causality relation between Alvarez waves and labor; and (C) publications reporting an absence of causality regarding the previous hypothesis. Studies in group B outnumbered those in group C. A critical analysis is presented.
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- Sara Russo
- Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UNINOVA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- NMT, S.A., Parque Tecnológico de Cantanhede, Núcleo 04, Lote 3, 3060 -, 197 Cantanhede, Portugal
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- Maternidade Alfredo da Costa, Rua Viriato 1, 1050-170 Lisboa, Portugal
- Nova Medical School / Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1169-056 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Maternidade Alfredo da Costa, Rua Viriato 1, 1050-170 Lisboa, Portugal
- Nova Medical School / Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1169-056 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- NMT, S.A., Parque Tecnológico de Cantanhede, Núcleo 04, Lote 3, 3060 -, 197 Cantanhede, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
- UNINOVA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Xu J, Chen Z, Zhang J, Lu Y, Yang X, Pumir A. Realistic preterm prediction based on optimized synthetic sampling of EHG signal. Comput Biol Med 2021; 136:104644. [PMID: 34271407 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Preterm labor is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality in newborns and has attracted significant research attention from many scientific areas. The relationship between uterine contraction and the underlying electrical activities makes uterine electrohysterogram (EHG) a promising direction for detecting and predicting preterm births. However, due to the scarcity of EHG signals, especially those leading to preterm births, synthetic algorithms have been used to generate artificial samples of preterm birth type in order to eliminate bias in the prediction towards normal delivery, at the expense of reducing the feature effectiveness in automatic preterm detection based on machine learning. To address this problem, we quantify the effect of synthetic samples (balance coefficient) on the effectiveness of features and form a general performance metric by using several feature scores with relevant weights that describe their contributions to class segregation. In combination with the activation/inactivation functions that characterize the effect of the abundance of training samples on the accuracy of the prediction of preterm and normal birth delivery, we obtained an optimal sample balance coefficient that compromises the effect of synthetic samples in removing bias toward the majority group (i.e., normal delivery and the side effect of reducing the importance of features). A more realistic predictive accuracy was achieved through a series of numerical tests on the publicly available TPEHG database, therefore demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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- Jinshan Xu
- College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China; Research Center for AI Social Experiment, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, 311321, China
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- College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China
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- College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China
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- College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China
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- College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China.
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- Laboratoire de Physique, ENS-Lyon, Lyon, 69007, France
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Arabi Belaghi R, Beyene J, McDonald SD. Prediction of preterm birth in nulliparous women using logistic regression and machine learning. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0252025. [PMID: 34191801 PMCID: PMC8244906 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To predict preterm birth in nulliparous women using logistic regression and machine learning. DESIGN Population-based retrospective cohort. PARTICIPANTS Nulliparous women (N = 112,963) with a singleton gestation who gave birth between 20-42 weeks gestation in Ontario hospitals from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2014. METHODS We used data during the first and second trimesters to build logistic regression and machine learning models in a "training" sample to predict overall and spontaneous preterm birth. We assessed model performance using various measures of accuracy including sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) in an independent "validation" sample. RESULTS During the first trimester, logistic regression identified 13 variables associated with preterm birth, of which the strongest predictors were diabetes (Type I: adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 4.21; 95% confidence interval (CI): 3.23-5.42; Type II: AOR: 2.68; 95% CI: 2.05-3.46) and abnormal pregnancy-associated plasma protein A concentration (AOR: 2.04; 95% CI: 1.80-2.30). During the first trimester, the maximum AUC was 60% (95% CI: 58-62%) with artificial neural networks in the validation sample. During the second trimester, 17 variables were significantly associated with preterm birth, among which complications during pregnancy had the highest AOR (13.03; 95% CI: 12.21-13.90). During the second trimester, the AUC increased to 65% (95% CI: 63-66%) with artificial neural networks in the validation sample. Including complications during the pregnancy yielded an AUC of 80% (95% CI: 79-81%) with artificial neural networks. All models yielded 94-97% negative predictive values for spontaneous PTB during the first and second trimesters. CONCLUSION Although artificial neural networks provided slightly higher AUC than logistic regression, prediction of preterm birth in the first trimester remained elusive. However, including data from the second trimester improved prediction to a moderate level by both logistic regression and machine learning approaches.
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- Reza Arabi Belaghi
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Statistics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Radiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Delanerolle G, Yang X, Shetty S, Raymont V, Shetty A, Phiri P, Hapangama DK, Tempest N, Majumder K, Shi JQ. Artificial intelligence: A rapid case for advancement in the personalization of Gynaecology/Obstetric and Mental Health care. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 17:17455065211018111. [PMID: 33990172 PMCID: PMC8127586 DOI: 10.1177/17455065211018111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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To evaluate and holistically treat the mental health sequelae and potential psychiatric comorbidities associated with obstetric and gynaecological conditions, it is important to optimize patient care, ensure efficient use of limited resources and improve health-economic models. Artificial intelligence applications could assist in achieving the above. The World Health Organization and global healthcare systems have already recognized the use of artificial intelligence technologies to address 'system gaps' and automate some of the more cumbersome tasks to optimize clinical services and reduce health inequalities. Currently, both mental health and obstetric and gynaecological services independently use artificial intelligence applications. Thus, suitable solutions are shared between mental health and obstetric and gynaecological clinical practices, independent of one another. Although, to address complexities with some patients who may have often interchanging sequelae with mental health and obstetric and gynaecological illnesses, 'holistically' developed artificial intelligence applications could be useful. Therefore, we present a rapid review to understand the currently available artificial intelligence applications and research into multi-morbid conditions, including clinical trial-based validations. Most artificial intelligence applications are intrinsically data-driven tools, and their validation in healthcare can be challenging as they require large-scale clinical trials. Furthermore, most artificial intelligence applications use rate-limiting mock data sets, which restrict their applicability to a clinical population. Some researchers may fail to recognize the randomness in the data generating processes in clinical care from a statistical perspective with a potentially minimal representation of a population, limiting their applicability within a real-world setting. However, novel, innovative trial designs could pave the way to generate better data sets that are generalizable to the entire global population. A collaboration between artificial intelligence and statistical models could be developed and deployed with algorithmic and domain interpretability to achieve this. In addition, acquiring big data sets is vital to ensure these artificial intelligence applications provide the highest accuracy within a real-world setting, especially when used as part of a clinical diagnosis or treatment.
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- Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- University College London, London, UK.,University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.,Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- University of Manchester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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Optimized Feature Subset Selection Using Genetic Algorithm for Preterm Labor Prediction Based on Electrohysterography. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21103350. [PMID: 34065847 PMCID: PMC8151582 DOI: 10.3390/s21103350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Electrohysterography (EHG) has emerged as an alternative technique to predict preterm labor, which still remains a challenge for the scientific-technical community. Based on EHG parameters, complex classification algorithms involving non-linear transformation of the input features, which clinicians found difficult to interpret, were generally used to predict preterm labor. We proposed to use genetic algorithm to identify the optimum feature subset to predict preterm labor using simple classification algorithms. A total of 203 parameters from 326 multichannel EHG recordings and obstetric data were used as input features. We designed and validated 3 base classifiers based on k-nearest neighbors, linear discriminant analysis and logistic regression, achieving F1-score of 84.63 ± 2.76%, 89.34 ± 3.5% and 86.87 ± 4.53%, respectively, for incoming new data. The results reveal that temporal, spectral and non-linear EHG parameters computed in different bandwidths from multichannel recordings provide complementary information on preterm labor prediction. We also developed an ensemble classifier that not only outperformed base classifiers but also reduced their variability, achieving an F1-score of 92.04 ± 2.97%, which is comparable with those obtained using complex classifiers. Our results suggest the feasibility of developing a preterm labor prediction system with high generalization capacity using simple easy-to-interpret classification algorithms to assist in transferring the EHG technique to clinical practice.
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Park S, Oh D, Heo H, Lee G, Kim SM, Ansari A, You YA, Jung YJ, Kim YH, Lee M, Kim YJ. Prediction of preterm birth based on machine learning using bacterial risk score in cervicovaginal fluid. Am J Reprod Immunol 2021; 86:e13435. [PMID: 33905152 DOI: 10.1111/aji.13435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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PROBLEM Preterm birth (PTB) is a major cause of increased morbidity and mortality in newborns. The main cause of spontaneous PTB (sPTB) is the activation of an inflammatory response as a result of ascending genital tract infection. Despite various studies on the effects of the vaginal microbiome on PTB, a practical method for its clinical application has yet to be developed. METHOD OF STUDY In this case-control study, 94 Korean pregnant women with PTB (n = 38) and term birth (TB; n = 56) were enrolled. Their cervicovaginal fluid (CVF) was sampled, and a total of 10 bacteria were analyzed using multiplex quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR). The PTB and TB groups were compared, and a PTB prediction model was created using bacterial risk scores using machine learning techniques (decision tree and support vector machine). The predictive performance of the model was validated using random subsampling. RESULTS Bacterial risk scoring model showed significant differences (P < 0.001). The PTB risk was low when the Lactobacillus iners ratio was 0.812 or more. In groups with a ratio under 0.812, moderate and high risk was classified as a U. parvum ratio of 4.6 × 10-3 . The sensitivity and specificity of the PTB prediction model using bacteria risk score were 71% and 59%, respectively, and 77% and 67%, respectively, when white blood cell (WBC) data were included. CONCLUSION Using machine learning, the bacterial risk score in CVF can be used to predict PTB.
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- Sunwha Park
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.,System Health & Engineering Major in Graduate School (BK21 Plus Program, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.,System Health & Engineering Major in Graduate School (BK21 Plus Program, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Ewha Medical Research Institute, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.,System Health & Engineering Major in Graduate School (BK21 Plus Program, Seoul, Korea
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Optimization of Imminent Labor Prediction Systems in Women with Threatened Preterm Labor Based on Electrohysterography. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21072496. [PMID: 33916679 PMCID: PMC8038321 DOI: 10.3390/s21072496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Preterm birth is the leading cause of death in newborns and the survivors are prone to health complications. Threatened preterm labor (TPL) is the most common cause of hospitalization in the second half of pregnancy. The current methods used in clinical practice to diagnose preterm labor, the Bishop score or cervical length, have high negative predictive values but not positive ones. In this work we analyzed the performance of computationally efficient classification algorithms, based on electrohysterographic recordings (EHG), such as random forest (RF), extreme learning machine (ELM) and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) for imminent labor (<7 days) prediction in women with TPL, using the 50th or 10th–90th percentiles of temporal, spectral and nonlinear EHG parameters with and without obstetric data inputs. Two criteria were assessed for the classifier design: F1-score and sensitivity. RFF1_2 and ELMF1_2 provided the highest F1-score values in the validation dataset, (88.17 ± 8.34% and 90.2 ± 4.43%) with the 50th percentile of EHG and obstetric inputs. ELMF1_2 outperformed RFF1_2 in sensitivity, being similar to those of ELMSens (sensitivity optimization). The 10th–90th percentiles did not provide a significant improvement over the 50th percentile. KNN performance was highly sensitive to the input dataset, with a high generalization capability.
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Preterm births affect around 15 million children a year worldwide. Current medical efforts focus on mitigating the effects of prematurity, not on preventing it. Diagnostic methods are based on parent traits and transvaginal ultrasound, during which the length of the cervix is examined. Approximately 30% of preterm births are not correctly predicted due to the complexity of this process and its subjective assessment. Based on recent research, there is hope that machine learning can be a helpful tool to support the diagnosis of preterm births. The objective of this study is to present various machine learning algorithms applied to preterm birth prediction. The wide spectrum of analysed data sets is the advantage of this survey. They range from electrohysterogram signals through electronic health records to transvaginal ultrasounds. Reviews of works on preterm birth already exist; however, this is the first review that includes works that are based on a transvaginal ultrasound examination. In this work, we present a critical appraisal of popular methods that have employed machine learning methods for preterm birth prediction. Moreover, we summarise the most common challenges incurred and discuss their possible application in the future.
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Davidson L, Boland MR. Towards deep phenotyping pregnancy: a systematic review on artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to improve pregnancy outcomes. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6065792. [PMID: 33406530 PMCID: PMC8424395 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Objective Development of novel informatics methods focused on improving pregnancy outcomes remains an active area of research. The purpose of this study is to systematically review the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), including deep learning (DL), methodologies can inform patient care during pregnancy and improve outcomes. Materials and methods We searched English articles on EMBASE, PubMed and SCOPUS. Search terms included ML, AI, pregnancy and informatics. We included research articles and book chapters, excluding conference papers, editorials and notes. Results We identified 127 distinct studies from our queries that were relevant to our topic and included in the review. We found that supervised learning methods were more popular (n = 69) than unsupervised methods (n = 9). Popular methods included support vector machines (n = 30), artificial neural networks (n = 22), regression analysis (n = 17) and random forests (n = 16). Methods such as DL are beginning to gain traction (n = 13). Common areas within the pregnancy domain where AI and ML methods were used the most include prenatal care (e.g. fetal anomalies, placental functioning) (n = 73); perinatal care, birth and delivery (n = 20); and preterm birth (n = 13). Efforts to translate AI into clinical care include clinical decision support systems (n = 24) and mobile health applications (n = 9). Conclusions Overall, we found that ML and AI methods are being employed to optimize pregnancy outcomes, including modern DL methods (n = 13). Future research should focus on less-studied pregnancy domain areas, including postnatal and postpartum care (n = 2). Also, more work on clinical adoption of AI methods and the ethical implications of such adoption is needed.
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- Lena Davidson
- MS degree at College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania
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Assessing Velocity and Directionality of Uterine Electrical Activity for Preterm Birth Prediction Using EHG Surface Records. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20247328. [PMID: 33419319 PMCID: PMC7766070 DOI: 10.3390/s20247328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to assess the capability of conduction velocity amplitudes and directions of propagation of electrohysterogram (EHG) waves to better distinguish between preterm and term EHG surface records. Using short-time cross-correlation between pairs of bipolar EHG signals (upper and lower, left and right), the conduction velocities and their directions were estimated using preterm and term EHG records of the publicly available Term–Preterm EHG DataSet with Tocogram (TPEHGT DS) and for different frequency bands below and above 1.0 Hz, where contractions and the influence of the maternal heart rate on the uterus, respectively, are expected. No significant or preferred continuous direction of propagation was found in any of the non-contraction (dummy) or contraction intervals; however, on average, a significantly lower percentage of velocity vectors was found in the vertical direction, and significantly higher in the horizontal direction, for preterm dummy intervals above 1.0 Hz. The newly defined features—the percentages of velocities in the vertical and horizontal directions, in combination with the sample entropy of the EHG signal recorded in the vertical direction, obtained from dummy intervals above 1.0 Hz—showed the highest classification accuracy of 86.8% (AUC=90.3%) in distinguishing between preterm and term EHG records of the TPEHGT DS.
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Vandewiele G, Dehaene I, Kovács G, Sterckx L, Janssens O, Ongenae F, De Backere F, De Turck F, Roelens K, Decruyenaere J, Van Hoecke S, Demeester T. Overly optimistic prediction results on imbalanced data: a case study of flaws and benefits when applying over-sampling. Artif Intell Med 2020; 111:101987. [PMID: 33461687 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Information extracted from electrohysterography recordings could potentially prove to be an interesting additional source of information to estimate the risk on preterm birth. Recently, a large number of studies have reported near-perfect results to distinguish between recordings of patients that will deliver term or preterm using a public resource, called the Term/Preterm Electrohysterogram database. However, we argue that these results are overly optimistic due to a methodological flaw being made. In this work, we focus on one specific type of methodological flaw: applying over-sampling before partitioning the data into mutually exclusive training and testing sets. We show how this causes the results to be biased using two artificial datasets and reproduce results of studies in which this flaw was identified. Moreover, we evaluate the actual impact of over-sampling on predictive performance, when applied prior to data partitioning, using the same methodologies of related studies, to provide a realistic view of these methodologies' generalization capabilities. We make our research reproducible by providing all the code under an open license.
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- Gilles Vandewiele
- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ghent University Hospital, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, Ghent, Belgium
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- Analytical Minds Ltd Arpad street 5, Beregsurany, Hungary
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ghent University Hospital, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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- IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, Belgium
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Sufriyana H, Husnayain A, Chen YL, Kuo CY, Singh O, Yeh TY, Wu YW, Su ECY. Comparison of Multivariable Logistic Regression and Other Machine Learning Algorithms for Prognostic Prediction Studies in Pregnancy Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JMIR Med Inform 2020; 8:e16503. [PMID: 33200995 PMCID: PMC7708089 DOI: 10.2196/16503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Revised: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Predictions in pregnancy care are complex because of interactions among multiple factors. Hence, pregnancy outcomes are not easily predicted by a single predictor using only one algorithm or modeling method. Objective This study aims to review and compare the predictive performances between logistic regression (LR) and other machine learning algorithms for developing or validating a multivariable prognostic prediction model for pregnancy care to inform clinicians’ decision making. Methods Research articles from MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were reviewed following several guidelines for a prognostic prediction study, including a risk of bias (ROB) assessment. We report the results based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. Studies were primarily framed as PICOTS (population, index, comparator, outcomes, timing, and setting): Population: men or women in procreative management, pregnant women, and fetuses or newborns; Index: multivariable prognostic prediction models using non-LR algorithms for risk classification to inform clinicians’ decision making; Comparator: the models applying an LR; Outcomes: pregnancy-related outcomes of procreation or pregnancy outcomes for pregnant women and fetuses or newborns; Timing: pre-, inter-, and peripregnancy periods (predictors), at the pregnancy, delivery, and either puerperal or neonatal period (outcome), and either short- or long-term prognoses (time interval); and Setting: primary care or hospital. The results were synthesized by reporting study characteristics and ROBs and by random effects modeling of the difference of the logit area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of each non-LR model compared with the LR model for the same pregnancy outcomes. We also reported between-study heterogeneity by using τ2 and I2. Results Of the 2093 records, we included 142 studies for the systematic review and 62 studies for a meta-analysis. Most prediction models used LR (92/142, 64.8%) and artificial neural networks (20/142, 14.1%) among non-LR algorithms. Only 16.9% (24/142) of studies had a low ROB. A total of 2 non-LR algorithms from low ROB studies significantly outperformed LR. The first algorithm was a random forest for preterm delivery (logit AUROC 2.51, 95% CI 1.49-3.53; I2=86%; τ2=0.77) and pre-eclampsia (logit AUROC 1.2, 95% CI 0.72-1.67; I2=75%; τ2=0.09). The second algorithm was gradient boosting for cesarean section (logit AUROC 2.26, 95% CI 1.39-3.13; I2=75%; τ2=0.43) and gestational diabetes (logit AUROC 1.03, 95% CI 0.69-1.37; I2=83%; τ2=0.07). Conclusions Prediction models with the best performances across studies were not necessarily those that used LR but also used random forest and gradient boosting that also performed well. We recommend a reanalysis of existing LR models for several pregnancy outcomes by comparing them with those algorithms that apply standard guidelines. Trial Registration PROSPERO (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) CRD42019136106; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=136106
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- Herdiantri Sufriyana
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Medical Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Clinical Big Data Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Clinical Big Data Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Early Diagnosis of Spontaneous Preterm Labor and Birth. Diagnostics (Basel) 2020; 10:diagnostics10090733. [PMID: 32971981 PMCID: PMC7555184 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics10090733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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This study reviews the current status and future prospective of knowledge on the use of artificial intelligence for the prediction of spontaneous preterm labor and birth (“preterm birth” hereafter). The summary of review suggests that different machine learning approaches would be optimal for different types of data regarding the prediction of preterm birth: the artificial neural network, logistic regression and/or the random forest for numeric data; the support vector machine for electrohysterogram data; the recurrent neural network for text data; and the convolutional neural network for image data. The ranges of performance measures were 0.79–0.94 for accuracy, 0.22–0.97 for sensitivity, 0.86–1.00 for specificity, and 0.54–0.83 for the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve. The following maternal variables were reported to be major determinants of preterm birth: delivery and pregestational body mass index, age, parity, predelivery systolic and diastolic blood pressure, twins, below high school graduation, infant sex, prior preterm birth, progesterone medication history, upper gastrointestinal tract symptom, gastroesophageal reflux disease, Helicobacter pylori, urban region, calcium channel blocker medication history, gestational diabetes mellitus, prior cone biopsy, cervical length, myomas and adenomyosis, insurance, marriage, religion, systemic lupus erythematosus, hydroxychloroquine sulfate, and increased cerebrospinal fluid and reduced cortical folding due to impaired brain growth.
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Robust Characterization of the Uterine Myoelectrical Activity in Different Obstetric Scenarios. ENTROPY 2020; 22:e22070743. [PMID: 33286515 PMCID: PMC7517284 DOI: 10.3390/e22070743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Electrohysterography (EHG) has been shown to provide relevant information on uterine activity and could be used for predicting preterm labor and identifying other maternal fetal risks. The extraction of high-quality robust features is a key factor in achieving satisfactory prediction systems from EHG. Temporal, spectral, and non-linear EHG parameters have been computed to characterize EHG signals, sometimes obtaining controversial results, especially for non-linear parameters. The goal of this work was to assess the performance of EHG parameters in identifying those robust enough for uterine electrophysiological characterization. EHG signals were picked up in different obstetric scenarios: antepartum, including women who delivered on term, labor, and post-partum. The results revealed that the 10th and 90th percentiles, for parameters with falling and rising trends as labor approaches, respectively, differentiate between these obstetric scenarios better than median analysis window values. Root-mean-square amplitude, spectral decile 3, and spectral moment ratio showed consistent tendencies for the different obstetric scenarios as well as non-linear parameters: Lempel–Ziv, sample entropy, spectral entropy, and SD1/SD2 when computed in the fast wave high bandwidth. These findings would make it possible to extract high quality and robust EHG features to improve computer-aided assessment tools for pregnancy, labor, and postpartum progress and identify maternal fetal risks.
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Diaz-Martinez A, Mas-Cabo J, Prats-Boluda G, Garcia-Casado J, Cardona-Urrego K, Monfort-Ortiz R, Lopez-Corral A, De Arriba-Garcia M, Perales A, Ye-Lin Y. A Comparative Study of Vaginal Labor and Caesarean Section Postpartum Uterine Myoelectrical Activity. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20113023. [PMID: 32466584 PMCID: PMC7308960 DOI: 10.3390/s20113023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is one of the major causes of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide, with uterine atony being the most common origin. Currently there are no obstetrical techniques available for monitoring postpartum uterine dynamics, as tocodynamometry is not able to detect weak uterine contractions. In this study, we explored the feasibility of monitoring postpartum uterine activity by non-invasive electrohysterography (EHG), which has been proven to outperform tocodynamometry in detecting uterine contractions during pregnancy. A comparison was made of the temporal, spectral, and non-linear parameters of postpartum EHG characteristics of vaginal deliveries and elective cesareans. In the vaginal delivery group, EHG obtained a significantly higher amplitude and lower kurtosis of the Hilbert envelope, and spectral content was shifted toward higher frequencies than in the cesarean group. In the non-linear parameters, higher values were found for the fractal dimension and lower values for Lempel-Ziv, sample entropy and spectral entropy in vaginal deliveries suggesting that the postpartum EHG signal is extremely non-linear but more regular and predictable than in a cesarean. The results obtained indicate that postpartum EHG recording could be a helpful tool for earlier detection of uterine atony and contribute to better management of prophylactic uterotonic treatment for PPH prevention.
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- Alba Diaz-Martinez
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (A.D.-M.); (J.M.-C.); (G.P.-B.); (J.G.-C.); (K.C.-U.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (A.D.-M.); (J.M.-C.); (G.P.-B.); (J.G.-C.); (K.C.-U.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (A.D.-M.); (J.M.-C.); (G.P.-B.); (J.G.-C.); (K.C.-U.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (A.D.-M.); (J.M.-C.); (G.P.-B.); (J.G.-C.); (K.C.-U.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (A.D.-M.); (J.M.-C.); (G.P.-B.); (J.G.-C.); (K.C.-U.)
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico de La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain; (R.M.-O.); (A.L.-C.); (M.D.A.-G.); (A.P.)
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico de La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain; (R.M.-O.); (A.L.-C.); (M.D.A.-G.); (A.P.)
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico de La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain; (R.M.-O.); (A.L.-C.); (M.D.A.-G.); (A.P.)
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico de La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain; (R.M.-O.); (A.L.-C.); (M.D.A.-G.); (A.P.)
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain; (A.D.-M.); (J.M.-C.); (G.P.-B.); (J.G.-C.); (K.C.-U.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-96-387-70-00 (ext. 76026)
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Mas-Cabo J, Prats-Boluda G, Garcia-Casado J, Alberola-Rubio J, Monfort-Ortiz R, Martinez-Saez C, Perales A, Ye-Lin Y. Electrohysterogram for ANN-Based Prediction of Imminent Labor in Women with Threatened Preterm Labor Undergoing Tocolytic Therapy. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20092681. [PMID: 32397177 PMCID: PMC7248811 DOI: 10.3390/s20092681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Threatened preterm labor (TPL) is the most common cause of hospitalization in the second half of pregnancy and entails high costs for health systems. Currently, no reliable labor proximity prediction techniques are available for clinical use. Regular checks by uterine electrohysterogram (EHG) for predicting preterm labor have been widely studied. The aim of the present study was to assess the feasibility of predicting labor with a 7- and 14-day time horizon in TPL women, who may be under tocolytic treatment, using EHG and/or obstetric data. Based on 140 EHG recordings, artificial neural networks were used to develop prediction models. Non-linear EHG parameters were found to be more reliable than linear for differentiating labor in under and over 7/14 days. Using EHG and obstetric data, the <7- and <14-day labor prediction models achieved an AUC in the test group of 87.1 ± 4.3% and 76.2 ± 5.8%, respectively. These results suggest that EHG can be reliable for predicting imminent labor in TPL women, regardless of the tocolytic therapy stage. This paves the way for the development of diagnostic tools to help obstetricians make better decisions on treatments, hospital stays and admitting TPL women, and can therefore reduce costs and improve maternal and fetal wellbeing.
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- J Mas-Cabo
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U. P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U. P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
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- Servicio de Obstetricia, H.U. P. La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Degbedzui DK, Yüksel ME. Accurate diagnosis of term-preterm births by spectral analysis of electrohysterography signals. Comput Biol Med 2020; 119:103677. [PMID: 32339119 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.103677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 02/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Preterm delivery contributes to an increased risk of fetal and maternal death as well as several health deficiencies, thereby requiring special care and treatment that result in high financial costs. It is therefore of key importance to diagnose preterm delivery in advance in order to avoid or minimize its undesirable consequences. This paper proposes a novel method for non-invasive diagnosis of preterm delivery based on the classification of electrohysterography (EHG) signals. First, the EHG signal, which is related to the electrical activity of uterine muscles is recorded from the maternal fundus using surface electrodes. Then, the signal is sliced into frames for spectral analysis. Next, spectral analyses of the individual EHG signal frames are carried out and centroid frequencies of the frames are computed, establishing the elements of a feature vector that represents the time-varying spectral content of the EHG signal. Finally, this feature vector is employed for the classification of the underlying EHG signal for term-preterm diagnosis. The efficiency of the proposed approach is evaluated and compared with representative methods from the literature. Our results demonstrate that the proposed approach exhibits superior performance over other methods.
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- Derek Kweku Degbedzui
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Erciyes University, Kayseri, 38039, Turkey.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Erciyes University, Kayseri, 38039, Turkey.
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Peng J, Hao D, Yang L, Du M, Song X, Jiang H, Zhang Y, Zheng D. Evaluation of electrohysterogram measured from different gestational weeks for recognizing preterm delivery: a preliminary study using random Forest. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2020; 40:352-362. [PMID: 32308250 PMCID: PMC7153772 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2019.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Developing a computational method for recognizing preterm delivery is important for timely diagnosis and treatment of preterm delivery. The main aim of this study was to evaluate electrohysterogram (EHG) signals recorded at different gestational weeks for recognizing the preterm delivery using random forest (RF). EHG signals from 300 pregnant women were divided into two groups depending on when the signals were recorded: i) preterm and term delivery with EHG recorded before the 26th week of gestation (denoted by PE and TE group), and ii) preterm and term delivery with EHG recorded during or after the 26th week of gestation (denoted by PL and TL group). 31 linear features and nonlinear features were derived from each EHG signal, and then compared comprehensively within PE and TE group, and PL and TL group. After employing the adaptive synthetic sampling approach and six-fold cross-validation, the accuracy (ACC), sensitivity, specificity and area under the curve (AUC) were applied to evaluate RF classification. For PL and TL group, RF achieved the ACC of 0.93, sensitivity of 0.89, specificity of 0.97, and AUC of 0.80. Similarly, their corresponding values were 0.92, 0.88, 0.96 and 0.88 for PE and TE group, indicating that RF could be used to recognize preterm delivery effectively with EHG signals recorded before the 26th week of gestation.
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Key Words
- ACC, accuracy
- ADASYN, adaptive synthetic sampling approach
- ANN, artificial neural network
- AR, auto-regressive model
- AUC, the area under the curve
- CorrDim, correlation dimension
- DT, decision tree
- EHG, electrohysterogram
- Electrohysterogram (EHG)
- Feature extraction
- Gestational week
- IUPC, intrauterine pressure catheter
- K-NN, K-nearest
- LDA, linear discriminant analysis
- LE, Lyapunov exponent
- MDF, median frequency
- MNF, mean frequency
- PE, preterm delivery before the 26th week of gestation
- PF, peak frequency
- PL, preterm delivery after the 26th week of gestation
- Preterm delivery
- QDA, quadratic discriminant analysis
- RF, random forest
- RMS, root mean square
- ROC, the receiver operating characteristic curve
- Random forest (RF).
- SD, standard deviation
- SE, energy values in signal
- SM, maximum values in signal
- SS, singular values in signal
- SV, variance values in signal
- SVM, support vector machine
- SampEn, sample entropy
- TE, term delivery before the 26th week of gestation
- TL, term delivery after the 26th week of gestation
- TOCO, tocodynamometer
- TPEHG, term-preterm electrohysterogram
- Tr, time reversibility
- τz, zero-crossing
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- Jin Peng
- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Platform for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Platform for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Platform for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Platform for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Platform for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Haidian Maternal and Children Health Hospital, Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Platform for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Intelligent Healthcare, Faculty of Health and Life Science, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
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Saleem S, Saeed A, Usman S, Ferzund J, Arshad J, Mirza J, Manzoor T. Granger causal analysis of electrohysterographic and tocographic recordings for classification of term vs. preterm births. Biocybern Biomed Eng 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbe.2020.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Detection and Classification of Nonstationary Signals: Application to Uterine EMG for Prognostication of Premature Delivery. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY+ 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11062-019-09821-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Benalcazar-Parra C, Garcia-Casado J, Ye-Lin Y, Alberola-Rubio J, Lopez Á, Perales-Marin A, Prats-Boluda G. New electrohysterogram-based estimators of intrauterine pressure signal, tonus and contraction peak for non-invasive labor monitoring. Physiol Meas 2019; 40:085003. [PMID: 31370050 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ab37db] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Uterine activity monitoring is an essential part of managing the progress of pregnancy and labor. Although intrauterine pressure (IUP) is the only reliable method of estimating uterine mechanical activity, it is highly invasive. Since there is a direct relationship between the electrical and mechanical activity of uterine cells, surface electrohysterography (EHG) has become a noninvasive monitoring alternative. The Teager energy (TE) operator of the EHG signal has been used for IUP continuous pressure estimation, although its accuracy could be improved. We aimed to develop new optimized IUP estimation models for clinical application. APPROACH We first considered enhancing the optimal estimation of IUP clinical features (maximum pressure and tonus) rather than optimizing the signal only (continuous pressure). An adaptive algorithm was also developed to deal with inter-patient variability. For each optimizing signal feature (continuous pressure, maximum pressure and tonus), individual (single patient), global (full database) and adaptive models were built to estimate the recorded IUP signal. The results were evaluated by computing the root mean square errors (RMSe): continuous pressure error (CPe), maximum pressure error (MPe) and tonus error (TOe). MAIN RESULTS The continuous pressure global model yielded IUP estimates with Cpe = 14.61 mm Hg, MPe = 29.17 mm Hg and Toe = 7.8 mm Hg. The adaptive models significantly reduced errors to CPe = 11.88, MPe = 16.02 and Toe = 5.61 mm Hg. The EHG-based IUP estimates outperformed those from traditional tocographic recordings, which had significantly higher errors (CPe = 21.93, MPe = 26.97, and TOe = 13.96). SIGNIFICANCE Our results show that adaptive models yield better IUP estimates than the traditional approaches and provide the best balance of the different errors computed for a better assessment of the labor progress and maternal and fetal well-being.
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- Carlos Benalcazar-Parra
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, Universitat Politècnica de València, Edif. 8B, Camino de Vera SN, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Tylcz JB, Muszynski C, Dauchet J, Istrate D, Marque C. An Automatic Method for the Segmentation and Classification of Imminent Labor Contraction From Electrohysterograms. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2019; 67:1133-1141. [PMID: 31352329 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2019.2930618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Preterm birth is the first cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. Despite continuous clinical routine improvements, the preterm rate remains steady. Moreover, the specificity of the early diagnosis stays poor as many hospitalized women for preterm delivery threat finally deliver at term. In this context, the use of electrohysterograms may increase the sensitivity and the specificity of early diagnosis of preterm labor. METHODS This paper proposes a clinical application of electrohysterogram processing for the classification of patients as prone to deliver within a week or later. The approach relies on non-linear correlation analysis for the contraction bursts extraction and uses computation of various features combined with the use of Gaussian mixture models for their classification. The method is tested on a new dataset of 68 records collected on women hospitalized for preterm delivery threat. RESULTS This paper presents promising results for the automatic segmentation of the contraction and a classification sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of, respectively, 80.7%, 76.3%, and 76.2%. CONCLUSION These results are in accordance with the gold standards but have the advantage to be non-invasive and could be performed at home. SIGNIFICANCE Diagnosis of imminent labor is possible by electrohysterography recording and may help in avoiding over-medication and in providing better cares to at-risk pregnant women.
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Punitha N, Ramakrishnan S. Multifractal analysis of uterine electromyography signals to differentiate term and preterm conditions. Proc Inst Mech Eng H 2019; 233:362-371. [PMID: 30706756 DOI: 10.1177/0954411919827323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this study, an attempt has been made to identify the origin of multifractality in uterine electromyography signals and to differentiate term (gestational age > 37 weeks) and preterm (gestational age ≤ 37 weeks) conditions by multifractal detrended moving average technique. The signals obtained from a publicly available database, recorded from the abdominal surface during the second trimester, are used in this study. The signals are preprocessed and converted to shuffle and surrogate series to examine the source of multifractality. Multifractal detrended moving average algorithm is applied on all the signals. The presence of multifractality is verified using scaling exponents, and multifractal spectral features are extracted from the spectrum. The variation of multifractal features in term and preterm conditions is analyzed statistically using Student's t-test. The results of scaling exponents show that the uterine electromyography or electrohysterography signals reveal multifractal characteristics in term and preterm conditions. Further investigation indicates the existence of long-range correlation as the primary source of multifractality. Among all extracted features, strength of multifractality, exponent index, and maximum and peak singularity exponents are statistically significant ( p < 0.05) in differentiating term and preterm conditions. The coefficient of variation is found to be lower for strength of multifractality and peak singularity exponent, which reveal that these features exhibit less inter-subject variance. Hence, it appears that multifractal analysis can aid in the diagnosis of preterm or term delivery of pregnant women.
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- N Punitha
- Non-Invasive Imaging and Diagnostic (NIID) Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Group, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- Non-Invasive Imaging and Diagnostic (NIID) Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Group, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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A Critical Look at Studies Applying Over-Sampling on the TPEHGDB Dataset. Artif Intell Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21642-9_45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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