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Gugatschka M, Egger NM, Haspl K, Hortobagyi D, Jauk S, Feiner M, Kramer D. Clinical evaluation of a machine learning-based dysphagia risk prediction tool. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2024:10.1007/s00405-024-08678-x. [PMID: 38743079 DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08678-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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PURPOSE The rise of digitization promotes the development of screening and decision support tools. We sought to validate the results from a machine learning based dysphagia risk prediction tool with clinical evaluation. METHODS 149 inpatients in the ENT department were evaluated in real time by the risk prediction tool, as well as clinically over a 3-week period. Patients were classified by both as patients at risk/no risk. RESULTS The AUROC, reflecting the discrimination capability of the algorithm, was 0.97. The accuracy achieved 92.6% given an excellent specificity as well as sensitivity of 98% and 82.4% resp. Higher age, as well as male sex and the diagnosis of oropharyngeal malignancies were found more often in patients at risk of dysphagia. CONCLUSION The proposed dysphagia risk prediction tool proved to have an outstanding performance in discriminating risk from no risk patients in a prospective clinical setting. It is likely to be particularly useful in settings where there is a lower incidence of patients with dysphagia and less awareness among staff.
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- Markus Gugatschka
- Department of Phoniatrics, ENT University Hospital Graz, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
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- Department of Phoniatrics, ENT University Hospital Graz, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Phoniatrics, ENT University Hospital Graz, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Phoniatrics, ENT University Hospital Graz, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Phoniatrics, ENT University Hospital Graz, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
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Kramer D, Jauk S, Veeranki S, Schrempf M, Traub J, Kugel E, Prisching A, Domnanich S, Leopold M, Krisper P, Sendlhofer G. Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Malnutrition in Surgical In-Patients: A Validation Pilot Study. Stud Health Technol Inform 2024; 313:156-157. [PMID: 38682522 DOI: 10.3233/shti240029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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BACKGROUND Malnutrition in hospitalised patients can lead to serious complications, worse patient outcomes and longer hospital stays. State-of-the-art screening methods rely on scores, which need additional manual assessments causing higher workload. OBJECTIVES The aim of this prospective study was to validate a machine learning (ML)-based approach for an automated prediction of malnutrition in hospitalised patients. METHODS For 159 surgical in-patients, an assessment of malnutrition by dieticians was compared to the ML-based prediction conducted in the evening of admission. RESULTS The model achieved an accuracy of 83.0% and an AUROC of 0.833 in the prospective validation cohort. CONCLUSION The results of this pilot study indicate that an automated malnutrition screening could replace manual screening tools in hospitals.
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- Diether Kramer
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
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- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
- Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
- Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Kneihsl M, Horner S, Hatab I, Schöngrundner N, Kramer D, Toth-Gayor G, Grangl G, Wünsch G, Fandler-Höfler S, Haidegger M, Berger N, Veeranki S, Fischer U, Enzinger C, Gattringer T. Long-term risk of recurrent cerebrovascular events after patent foramen ovale closure: Results from a real-world stroke cohort. Eur Stroke J 2023; 8:1021-1029. [PMID: 37658692 PMCID: PMC10683717 DOI: 10.1177/23969873231197564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/03/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Patent foramen ovale (PFO)-closure is recommended for stroke prevention in selected patients with suspected PFO-associated stroke. However, studies on cerebrovascular event recurrence after PFO-closure are limited by relatively short follow-up periods and information on the underlying aetiology of recurrent events is scarce. PATIENTS AND METHODS All consecutive patients with a cerebral ischaemic event and PFO-closure at the University Hospital Graz were prospectively identified from 2004 to 2021. Indication for PFO-closure was based on a neurological-cardiological PFO board decision. Patients underwent standardized clinical and echocardiographic follow-up 6 months after PFO-closure. Recurrent cerebrovascular events were assessed via electronical health records. RESULTS PFO-closure was performed in 515 patients (median age: 49 years; Amplatzer PFO occluder: 42%). Over a median follow-up of 11 years (range: 2-18 years, 5141 total patient-years), recurrent ischaemic cerebrovascular events were observed in 34 patients (ischaemic stroke: n = 22, TIA: n = 12) and associated with age, hyperlipidaemia and smoking in multivariable analysis (p < 0.05 each). Large artery atherosclerosis and small vessel disease were the most frequent aetiologies of recurrent stroke/TIA (27% and 24% respectively), and only two events were related to atrial fibrillation (AF). Recurrent ischaemic cerebrovascular event rates and incident AF were comparable in patients treated with different PFO occluders (p > 0.1). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION In this long-term follow-up-study of patients with a cerebral ischaemic event who had received PFO-closure with different devices, rates of recurrent stroke/TIA were low and largely related to large artery atherosclerosis and small vessel disease. Thorough vascular risk factor control seems crucial for secondary stroke prevention in patients treated for PFO-related stroke.
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- Markus Kneihsl
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Division of Neuroradiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Information and Process Management, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Information and Process Management, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Division of Neuroradiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Lentzen M, Linden T, Veeranki S, Madan S, Kramer D, Leodolter W, Frohlich H. A Transformer-Based Model Trained on Large Scale Claims Data for Prediction of Severe COVID-19 Disease Progression. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2023; 27:4548-4558. [PMID: 37347632 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2023.3288768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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In situations like the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems are under enormous pressure as they can rapidly collapse under the burden of the crisis. Machine learning (ML) based risk models could lift the burden by identifying patients with a high risk of severe disease progression. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide crucial sources of information to develop these models because they rely on routinely collected healthcare data. However, EHR data is challenging for training ML models because it contains irregularly timestamped diagnosis, prescription, and procedure codes. For such data, transformer-based models are promising. We extended the previously published Med-BERT model by including age, sex, medications, quantitative clinical measures, and state information. After pre-training on approximately 988 million EHRs from 3.5 million patients, we developed models to predict Acute Respiratory Manifestations (ARM) risk using the medical history of 80,211 COVID-19 patients. Compared to Random Forests, XGBoost, and RETAIN, our transformer-based models more accurately forecast the risk of developing ARM after COVID-19 infection. We used Integrated Gradients and Bayesian networks to understand the link between the essential features of our model. Finally, we evaluated adapting our model to Austrian in-patient data. Our study highlights the promise of predictive transformer-based models for precision medicine.
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Kreuzthaler M, Pfeifer B, Kramer D, Schulz S. Secondary Use of Clinical Problem List Entries for Neural Network-Based Disease Code Assignment. Stud Health Technol Inform 2023; 302:788-792. [PMID: 37203496 DOI: 10.3233/shti230267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Clinical information systems have become large repositories for semi-structured and partly annotated electronic health record data, which have reached a critical mass that makes them interesting for supervised data-driven neural network approaches. We explored automated coding of 50 character long clinical problem list entries using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and evaluated three different types of network architectures on the top 100 ICD-10 three-digit codes. A fastText baseline reached a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.83, followed by a character-level LSTM with a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.84. The top performing approach used a downstreamed RoBERTa model with a custom language model, yielding a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.88. A neural network activation analysis together with an investigation of the false positives and false negatives unveiled inconsistent manual coding as a main limiting factor.
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- Markus Kreuzthaler
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Information and Process Management, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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Polat Erdeniz S, Kramer D, Schrempf M, Rainer PP, Felfernig A, Tran TNT, Burgstaller T, Lubos S. Machine Learning Based Risk Prediction for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events for ELGA-Authorized Clinics1. Stud Health Technol Inform 2023; 301:20-25. [PMID: 37172147 DOI: 10.3233/shti230006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had an important impact on many industries as well as the field of medical diagnostics. In healthcare, AI techniques such as case-based reasoning and data driven machine learning (ML) algorithms have been used to support decision-making processes for complex tasks. This is used to assist medical professionals in making clinical decisions. A way of supporting clinicians is providing predicted prognoses of various ML models. OBJECTIVES Training an ML model based on the data of a hospital and using it on another hospital have some challenges. METHODS In this research, we applied data analysis to discover required data filters on a hospital's EHR data for training a model for another hospital. RESULTS We applied experiments on real-world data of ELGA (Austrian health record system) and KAGes (a public healthcare provider of 20+ hospitals in Austria). In this scenario, we train the prediction model for ELGA- authorized health service providers using the KAGes data since we do not have access to the complete ELGA data. CONCLUSION Finally, we observed that filtering the data with both feature and value selection increases the classification performance of the prediction model, which is trained for another system.
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- Seda Polat Erdeniz
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
- Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
- Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Gutheil J, Stampfer P, Kramer D, Wechselberger M, Veeranki SPK, Schrempf M, Mrak P, Aubel M, Feichtner F. Frail People in LABLand: Development of an Easy-to-Use Machine Learning Model to Identify Frail People in Hospitals Based on Laboratory Data. Stud Health Technol Inform 2023; 301:212-219. [PMID: 37172183 DOI: 10.3233/shti230042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Frail individuals are very vulnerable to stressors, which often lead to adverse outcomes. To ensure an adequate therapy, a holistic diagnostic approach is needed which is provided in geriatric wards. It is important to identify frail individuals outside the geriatric ward as well to ensure that they also benefit from the holistic approach. OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to develop a machine learning model to identify frail individuals in hospitals. The model should be applicable without additional effort, quickly and in many different places in the healthcare system. METHODS We used Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT) to predict a frailty target derived from a gold standard assessment. The used features were laboratory values, age and sex. We also identified the most important features. RESULTS The best GBDT achieved an AUROC of 0.696. The most important laboratory values are urea, creatinine, granulocytes, chloride and calcium. CONCLUSION The model performance is acceptable, but insufficient for clinical use. Additional laboratory values or the laboratory history could improve the performance.
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- Julian Gutheil
- Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria
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- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria
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- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria
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- PH Predicting Health GmbH, Graz, Austria
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria
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- Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria
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Hollstein MM, Manzke V, Scheidmann SEF, Schrenker S, Schaffrinski M, Neubert E, Kramer D, Raker VK, Schön MP, Erpenbeck L. Targeting neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) ameliorates inflammation in murine psoriasiform dermatitis. J Dermatol Sci 2023; 109:143-146. [PMID: 36878839 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2023.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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- M M Hollstein
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Division of Drug Discovery and Safety, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Lower Saxony Institute of Occupational Dermatology, University Medical Center Göttingen and University of Osnabrück, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
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Kramer D, Van der Merwe J, Lüthi M. A combined active shape and mean appearance model for the reconstruction of segmental bone loss. Med Eng Phys 2022; 110:103841. [PMID: 36031526 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2022.103841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 05/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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This study investigates the novel combination of an active shape and mean appearance model to estimate missing bone geometry and density distribution from sparse inputs simulating segmental bone loss of the femoral diaphysis. An active shape Gaussian Process Morphable model was trained on healthy right femurs of South African males to model shape. The density distribution was approximated based on the mean appearance of computed tomography images from the training set. Estimations of diaphyseal resections were obtained by probabilistic fitting of the active shape model to sparse inputs consisting of proximal and distal femoral data on computed tomography images. The resulting shape estimates of the diaphyseal resections were then used to map the mean appearance model to the patients' missing bone geometry, constructing density estimations. In this way, resected bone surfaces were estimated with an average error of 2.24 (0.5) mm. Density distributions were approximated within 87 (0.7) % of the intensity of the original target images before the simulated segmental bone loss. These results fall within the acceptable tolerances required for surgical planning and reconstruction of long bone defects.
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- D Kramer
- Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Western-Cape, South Africa.
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- Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Western-Cape, South Africa.
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- The Graphics and Vision Research Group, University of Basel, Basel 4001, Switzerland.
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Polat Erdeniz S, Veeranki S, Schrempf M, Jauk S, Ngoc Trang Tran T, Felfernig A, Kramer D, Leodolter W. Explaining Machine Learning Predictions of Decision Support Systems in Healthcare. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 2022. [DOI: 10.1515/cdbme-2022-1031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, which are often based on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, are also applied in the healthcare domain to provide predictions to physicians and patients based on electronic health records (EHRs), such as history of laboratory values, applied procedures and diagnoses. The question about these predictions “Why Should I Trust You?” encapsulates the issue with ML black boxes. Therefore, explaining the reasons for these ML predictions to physicians and patients is crucial to allow them to decide whether the prediction is applicable or not. In this paper, we explained and evaluated two prediction explanation methods for healthcare professionals (physicians and nurses). We compared two model-agnostic explanation methods based on global feature importance and local feature importance. We evaluated the user trust and reliance (UTR) for the explanation results of each method in a user study based on real patients’ electronic health records (EHR) and the feedback of healthcare professionals. Based on the user study, we observed that both methods have strengths and weaknesses according to the patients’ data, especially based on the data size of the patient. When the amount of data is small, global feature importance is enough to use. However, when the patient’s data size is big, using a local feature importance method makes more sense. As future work, we will develop a hybrid explanation method (by combining these methods automatically with a smart setting) to obtain higher and more stable performance results in terms of user trust and reliance.
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- Seda Polat Erdeniz
- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (Die Steiermarkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. - KAGes), Billrothgasse 18A, Graz , Austria
- Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16B/2, Graz , Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (Die Steiermarkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. - KAGes), Billrothgasse 18A, Graz , Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (Die Steiermarkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. - KAGes), Billrothgasse 18A, Graz , Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (Die Steiermarkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. - KAGes), Billrothgasse 18A, Graz , Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (Die Steiermarkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. - KAGes), Billrothgasse 18A, Graz , Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (Die Steiermarkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. - KAGes), Billrothgasse 18A, Graz , Austria
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Jauk S, Veeranki SPK, Kramer D, Högler S, Mühlecker D, Eberhartl E, Schueler A, Chvosta C, Strasser W, Strasser R, Leodolter W. External Validation of a Machine Learning Based Delirium Prediction Software in Clinical Routine. Stud Health Technol Inform 2022; 293:93-100. [PMID: 35592966 DOI: 10.3233/shti220353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Various machine learning (ML) models have been developed for the prediction of clinical outcomes, but there is missing evidence on their performance in clinical routine and external validation. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to deploy and prospectively evaluate an already developed delirium prediction software in clinical routine of an external hospital. METHODS We compared updated ML models of the software and models re-trained with the external hospital's data. The best models were deployed in clinical routine for one month, and risk predictions for all admitted patients were compared to the risk ratings of a senior physician. After using the software, clinicians completed a questionnaire assessing technology acceptance. RESULTS Re-trained models achieved a high discriminative performance (AUROC > 0.92). Compared to clinical risk ratings, the software achieved a sensitivity of 100.0% and a specificity of 90.6%. Usefulness, ease of use and output quality were rated positively by the users. CONCLUSION A ML based delirium prediction software achieved a high discriminative performance and high technology acceptance at an external hospital using re-trained ML models.
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- Stefanie Jauk
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria
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- Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
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- Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
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- Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
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- Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
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- Vinzenz Gruppe Krankenhausbeteiligungs- und Management GmbH, Wien, Austria
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- Vinzenz Gruppe Krankenhausbeteiligungs- und Management GmbH, Wien, Austria
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- Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried, Ried im Innkreis, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria
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Schrempf M, Polat Erdeniz S, Kramer D, Jauk S, Veeranki SPK, Ribitsch W, Leodolter W, Rainer PP. Development of an Architecture to Implement Machine Learning Based Risk Prediction in Clinical Routine: A Service-Oriented Approach. Stud Health Technol Inform 2022; 293:262-269. [PMID: 35592992 DOI: 10.3233/shti220379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients at risk of developing a disease have to be identified at an early stage to enable prevention. One way of early detection is the use of machine learning based prediction models trained on electronic health records. OBJECTIVES The aim of this project was to develop a software solution to predict cardiovascular and nephrological events using machine learning models. In addition, a risk verification interface for health care professionals was established. METHODS In order to meet the requirements, different tools were analysed. Based on this, a software architecture was created, which was designed to be as modular as possible. RESULTS A software was realised that is able to automatically calculate and display risks using machine learning models. Furthermore, predictions can be verified via an interface adapted to the need of health care professionals, which shows data required for prediction. CONCLUSION Due to the modularised software architecture and the status-based calculation process, different technologies could be applied. This facilitates the installation of the software at multiple health care providers, for which adjustments need to be carried out at one part of the software only.
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- Michael Schrempf
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria.,Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria.,Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria.,Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Gribaleva E, van der Molen SM, Kramer D, Horvath B, Allenova A, Diercks GFH, Pas HH. Subepidermal type VII collagen speckles as an additional clue for diagnosing epidermolysis bullosa acquisita by salt-split skin serum analysis. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2022; 36:e384-e386. [PMID: 35030274 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- E Gribaleva
- Division of Immune-mediated Skin Diseases, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Blistering Diseases, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Center for Blistering Diseases, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Center for Blistering Diseases, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Division of Immune-mediated Skin Diseases, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Blistering Diseases, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Center for Blistering Diseases, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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Schrempf M, Kramer D, Jauk S, Veeranki SPK, Leodolter W, Rainer PP. Machine Learning Based Risk Prediction for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events. Stud Health Technol Inform 2021; 279:136-143. [PMID: 33965930 DOI: 10.3233/shti210100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) such as myocardial infarction or stroke suffer from frequent hospitalizations and have high mortality rates. By identifying patients at risk at an early stage, MACE can be prevented with the right interventions. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop machine learning-based models for the 5-year risk prediction of MACE. METHODS The data used for modelling included electronic medical records of more than 128,000 patients including 29,262 patients with MACE. A feature selection based on filter and embedded methods resulted in 826 features for modelling. Different machine learning methods were used for modelling on the training data. RESULTS A random forest model achieved the best calibration and discriminative performance on a separate test data set with an AUROC of 0.88. CONCLUSION The developed risk prediction models achieved an excellent performance in the test data. Future research is needed to determine the performance of these models and their clinical benefit in prospective settings.
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- Michael Schrempf
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria.,Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H., Graz, Austria
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Großauer B, Rienmüller S, Avian A, Berghold A, Leodolter W, Schulz S. Risk prediction of delirium in hospitalized patients using machine learning: An implementation and prospective evaluation study. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2021; 27:1383-1392. [PMID: 32968811 DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Machine learning models trained on electronic health records have achieved high prognostic accuracy in test datasets, but little is known about their embedding into clinical workflows. We implemented a random forest-based algorithm to identify hospitalized patients at high risk for delirium, and evaluated its performance in a clinical setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS Delirium was predicted at admission and recalculated on the evening of admission. The defined prediction outcome was a delirium coded for the recent hospital stay. During 7 months of prospective evaluation, 5530 predictions were analyzed. In addition, 119 predictions for internal medicine patients were compared with ratings of clinical experts in a blinded and nonblinded setting. RESULTS During clinical application, the algorithm achieved a sensitivity of 74.1% and a specificity of 82.2%. Discrimination on prospective data (area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve = 0.86) was as good as in the test dataset, but calibration was poor. The predictions correlated strongly with delirium risk perceived by experts in the blinded (r = 0.81) and nonblinded (r = 0.62) settings. A major advantage of our setting was the timely prediction without additional data entry. DISCUSSION The implemented machine learning algorithm achieved a stable performance predicting delirium in high agreement with expert ratings, but improvement of calibration is needed. Future research should evaluate the acceptance of implemented machine learning algorithms by health professionals. CONCLUSIONS Our study provides new insights into the implementation process of a machine learning algorithm into a clinical workflow and demonstrates its predictive power for delirium.
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- Stefanie Jauk
- Department of Information and Process Management, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria.,Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Information and Process Management, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes) LKH Graz II, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes) LKH Graz II, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Information and Process Management, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Avian A, Berghold A, Leodolter W, Schulz S. Correction to: Technology Acceptance of a Machine Learning Algorithm Predicting Delirium in a Clinical Setting: a Mixed-Methods Study. J Med Syst 2021; 45:52. [PMID: 33740133 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-021-01728-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Stefanie Jauk
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Information and Process Management, Graz, Austria. .,Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria.
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Information and Process Management, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Information and Process Management, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Avian A, Berghold A, Leodolter W, Schulz S. Technology Acceptance of a Machine Learning Algorithm Predicting Delirium in a Clinical Setting: a Mixed-Methods Study. J Med Syst 2021; 45:48. [PMID: 33646459 PMCID: PMC7921052 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-021-01727-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Early identification of patients with life-threatening risks such as delirium is crucial in order to initiate preventive actions as quickly as possible. Despite intense research on machine learning for the prediction of clinical outcomes, the acceptance of the integration of such complex models in clinical routine remains unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate user acceptance of an already implemented machine learning-based application predicting the risk of delirium for in-patients. We applied a mixed methods design to collect opinions and concerns from health care professionals including physicians and nurses who regularly used the application. The evaluation was framed by the Technology Acceptance Model assessing perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, actual system use and output quality of the application. Questionnaire results from 47 nurses and physicians as well as qualitative results of four expert group meetings rated the overall usefulness of the delirium prediction positively. For healthcare professionals, the visualization and presented information was understandable, the application was easy to use and the additional information for delirium management was appreciated. The application did not increase their workload, but the actual system use was still low during the pilot study. Our study provides insights into the user acceptance of a machine learning-based application supporting delirium management in hospitals. In order to improve quality and safety in healthcare, computerized decision support should predict actionable events and be highly accepted by users.
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- Stefanie Jauk
- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Information and Process Management, Graz, Austria. .,Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria.
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Information and Process Management, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Information and Process Management, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2, 8036, Graz, Austria
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Rugo HS, Umanzor G, Barrios FJ, Vasallo RH, Chivalan MA, Bejarano S, Ramirez JR, Fein L, Kowalyszyn RD, Cutler DL, Kramer D, Goldfinch J, Wang H, Moore T, Kwan RMF. Abstract PS13-11: Oral paclitaxel and encequidar (oPac+E) in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mBC): Management of gastrointestinal adverse events (GI AE). Study KX-ORAX-001. Cancer Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs20-ps13-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: There is a need for more effective and less toxic treatments for patients with mBC. Patients may prefer oral vs IV cytotoxic therapies to avoid frequent hospital visits. In addition, oral therapies allow frequent or metronomic dosing regimens which may alter the toxicity or activity profile of agents vs infrequent IV administration. oPac+E is oral paclitaxel combination with Encequidar, a specific, minimally absorbed, oral p-glycoprotein inhibitor that facilitates the absorption of oral paclitaxel. mBC patients who received oPac+E had significantly greater confirmed tumor response and longer survival with lower rates and severity of neuropathy but increased GI AE compared to IV paclitaxel (IVPac) (Study KX-ORAX-001 presented at SABCS, 2019, Abstract # GS6-01).
Methods: Study KX-ORAX-001 was a phase III, randomized, study in women with mBC for whom treatment with IVPac was recommended. Patients were randomized 2:1 to receive oPac+E or IVPac. Patients continued treatment until discontinuation due to progressive disease or toxicity. oPac 205 mg/m2 was given once daily for 3 days weekly. E 12.9 mg was given 1 hour before each dose of oPac. IVPac 175 mg/m2 was infused over 3 hours every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint was efficacy defined as tumor response confirmed by BICR at two consecutive evaluations. Key secondary endpoints included PFS, OS. Safety was monitored throughout the study.
Results: All IVPac patients received high-dose dexamethasone and antihistamine premedication, which have significant anti-emetic activity and may have received additional anti-emetic agents as needed. The protocol did not allow any prophylaxis for GI AE for oPac+E patients nor were they to receive predose corticosteroids, nor antihistamines.
The protocol was amended after approximately 30% of patients were enrolled to allow prophylactic anti-emetic medications for patients randomized to oPac+E. Patients were also given loperamide to take at home and were instructed to initiate loperamide with the onset of diarrhea. The rates of Grade ≥2, vomiting and diarrhea for patients treated with IVPac, the patients treated with oPac+E prior to after the amendment are summarized in the table below.
Prophylactic anti-emetic therapy and early use of loperamide markedly decreased the incidence of ≥Grade 2 vomiting and diarrhea although there was a greater incidence than IVPac.
The most frequently prescribed anti-emetic agents for oPac+E treated patients were ondansetron (54%), metoclopramide (21%), domperidone (4%) and aprepitant (3%). For patients randomized to IVPac, the most frequently prescribed agents were ondanesteron (59%), granisetron (24%), palenosetron (7%) and aprepitant (2%). Oral administration of the oral NK1 inhibitor aprepitant appeared to be associated with increased incidence of oral paclitaxel systemic toxicity, potentially due to inhibition of metabolism of oPac by cytochrome P450 3A4.
Conclusions: oPac+E was associated with greater efficacy in the treatment of mBC and lower rates and severity of peripheral neuropathy, but increased GI AE compared to IVPac 175mg/m2. GI AE in oPac+E treated patients can be managed by prophylactic use of anti-emetics, primarily 5-HT3 inhibitors and early intervention with the anti-diarrhea agent loperamide. The use of the oral NK1 inhibitor aprepitant in combination with oPac+E is not recommended.(NTC02594371)
IVPacoPac+E Pre-AmendmentoPac+E Post AmendmentGrade 2Grade 3Grade 4Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4Vomiting4%1%0%24%7%0%7%4%0%Diarrhea7%1%0%27%9%0%16%3%0.5%
Citation Format: H S Rugo, G Umanzor, F J Barrios, R H Vasallo, M A Chivalan, S Bejarano, J R Ramirez, L Fein, R D Kowalyszyn, D L Cutler, D Kramer, J Goldfinch, H Wang, T Moore, R MF Kwan. Oral paclitaxel and encequidar (oPac+E) in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mBC): Management of gastrointestinal adverse events (GI AE). Study KX-ORAX-001 [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PS13-11.
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- H S Rugo
- 1University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
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- 2Liga Contra el Cancer, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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- 3Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCAN), Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- 4Clinical Research RD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- 5CELAN Clinica Medica, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- 8Instituto de Oncologia de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- 9Centro de Investigaciones Clínica, Clínica Viedma, Argentina
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- 10Athenex Inc., Buffalo, NY
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Rugo HS, Umanzor G, Barrios FJ, Vasallo RH, Chivalan MA, Bejarano S, Ramirez JR, Fein L, Kowalyszyn RD, Cutler DL, Kramer D, Goldfinch J, Wang H, Moore T, Kwan RMF. Abstract PS13-06: Lower rates of neuropathy with oral paclitaxel and encequidar (oPac+E) compared to IV paclitaxel (IVPac) in treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mBC): Study KX-ORAX-001. Cancer Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs20-ps13-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common dose-limiting toxicity associated with IVPac. Primarily sensory, CIPN is an often irreversible condition primarily affecting the hands and feet associated with pain, numbness, tingling, and sensitivity to cold and has a significant impact on quality of life and treatment tolerance. Risk of CIPN increases with age, dose intensity, cumulative dose, and preexisting conditions including diabetes.
Methods: Study KX-ORAX-001 was a phase III, randomized, international study in women with mBC for whom treatment with IVPac was recommended. Eligible patients were randomized 2:1 to receive oPac+E or IVPac. Patients continued treatment until discontinuation due to progressive disease or toxicity. oPac 205 mg/m2 was given once daily for 3 days weekly. E 12.9 mg was given 1 hour before each dose of oPac. IVPac 175 mg/m2 was infused over 3 hours every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint was efficacy defined as tumor response confirmed by BICR at two consecutive evaluations. Key secondary endpoints included PFS, OS. Safety was monitored throughout the study.
Results: A total of 402 mBC patients were enrolled, 265 randomized to oPac+E and 137 to IVPac (ITT population). 399 patients were treated and comprise the safety population. The confirmed response rate was significantly greater in the oPac+E group vs IVPac (35% vs 23%) for the ITT population. Median overall survival was (27.7 vs 16.7 months, ITT) at the time of the analysis. Long-term follow up for final determination of PFS and OS is ongoing.Incidence of neuropathy-related TEAEs were lower in patients receiving oPac+E vs IVPac: Overall (21% vs 64%; all grades), grade ≥3 (2% vs 15%). Cumulative risk for neuropathy with IVPac was >50% by week 8 and was 83% at week 88. In contrast, the cumulative risk of neuropathy with oPac+E rose slowly and plateaued at 34% at week 88. Treatment discontinuations due to neuropathy occurred only in the IVPac arm (8%). Dose reductions due to neuropathy were reported in 8% of IVPac treated patients and in 2% of oPac+E treated patients. In agreement with the lower rates of peripheral neuropathy in patients treated with oPac+E, there was lower use of medications used for the treatment of neuropathic symptoms. Use of gabapentin or pregabalin was 12% for patients receiving oPac+E vs 40% for IVPac treated patients.
Conclusions: oPac+E was associated with greater efficacy in the treatment of patients with mBC and a lower incidence of neuropathy, slower onset and lesser severity of neuropathic events compared to IVPac 175mg/m2 administered every three weeks. Fewer patients receiving oPac+E required dose reduction due to neuropathy and no patients receiving oPac+E discontinued treatment due to neuropathy. Reduction in neuropathy may improve quality of life and allow longer administration of effective therapy while maintaining dose intensity.
Citation Format: H S Rugo, G Umanzor, F J Barrios, R H Vasallo, M A Chivalan, S Bejarano, J R Ramirez, L Fein, R D Kowalyszyn, D L Cutler, D Kramer, J Goldfinch, H Wang, T Moore, R MF Kwan. Lower rates of neuropathy with oral paclitaxel and encequidar (oPac+E) compared to IV paclitaxel (IVPac) in treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mBC): Study KX-ORAX-001 [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PS13-06.
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- H S Rugo
- 1University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
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- 2Liga Contra el Cancer, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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- 3Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCAN), Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- 4Clinical Research RD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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- 5CELAN Clinica Medica, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- 8Instituto de Oncologia de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- 9Centro de Investigaciones Clínica, Clínica Viedma, Argentina
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- 10Athenex Inc., Buffalo, NY
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Tourdot S, Abdolzade-Bavil A, Bessa J, Broët P, Fogdell-Hahn A, Giorgi M, Jawa V, Kuranda K, Legrand N, Pattijn S, Pedras-Vasconcelos JA, Rudy A, Salmikangas P, Scott DW, Snoeck V, Smith N, Spindeldreher S, Kramer D. 10 th European immunogenicity platform open symposium on immunogenicity of biopharmaceuticals. MAbs 2021; 12:1725369. [PMID: 32063088 PMCID: PMC7039638 DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2020.1725369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Therapeutic proteins and emerging gene and cell-based therapies are attractive therapeutic tools for addressing unmet medical needs or when earlier conventional treatment approaches failed. However, the development of an immune response directed against therapeutic agents is a significant concern as it occurs in a substantial number of cases across products and indications. The specific anti-drug antibodies that develop can lead to safety adverse events as well as inhibition of drug activity or accelerated clearance, both phenomena resulting in loss of treatment efficacy. The European Immunogenicity Platform (EIP) is a meeting place for experts and newcomers to the immunogenicity field, designed to stimulate discussion amongst scientists across industry and academia, encourage interactions with regulatory agencies and share knowledge and the state-of-the-art of immunogenicity sciences with the broader scientific community. Here we report on the main topics covered during the EIP 10th Open Symposium on Immunogenicity of Biopharmaceuticals held in Lisbon, 26–27 February 2019, and the 1-d training course on practical and regulatory aspects of immunogenicity held ahead of the conference. These main topics included immunogenicity testing, clinical relevance of immunogenicity, immunogenicity prediction, regulatory aspects, tolerance induction as a mean to mitigate immunogenicity and immunogenicity in the context of gene therapy.
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- S Tourdot
- BioMedicine Design, Pfizer Inc, Andover, MA, USA
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- Large Molecule Bioanalytical Sciences, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Munich, Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche Innovation Center Basel, Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Certara QSP, Certara UK Limited, UK
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- Predictive and Clinical Immunogenicity, PPDM, Merck & Co, Kenilworth, NJ, USA
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- Translational Department, Sparks Therapeutics, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- HEXAL AG, Holzkirchen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Translational Biomarkers and Bioanalysis, UCB Biopharma SRL, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
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- Sanofi R&D, Translational Medicine & Early Development, Sanofi, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Lienhart AM, Kramer D, Jauk S, Gugatschka M, Leodolter W, Schlegl T. Multivariable Risk Prediction of Dysphagia in Hospitalized Patients Using Machine Learning. Stud Health Technol Inform 2020; 271:31-38. [PMID: 32578538 DOI: 10.3233/shti200071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Dysphagia is a dysfunction of the swallowing act and is highly prevalent in acute post-stroke patients and patients with chronic neurological diseases. Dysphagia is associated with several potentially life threatening complications. Thus, an early identification and treatment could reduce morbidity and mortality rates. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to develop a multivariable model predicting the individual risk of dysphagia in hospitalized patients. METHODS We trained different machine learning algorithms on the electronic health records of over 33,000 patients. RESULTS The tree-based Random Forest Classifier and Adaboost Classifier algorithms achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.94. CONCLUSION The developed models outperformed previously published models predicting dysphagia. In future, an implementation in the clinical workflow is needed to determine the clinical benefit.
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Styrian Hospitals Limited Liability Company (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Lassnig A, Rienmueller T, Kramer D, Leodolter W, Baumgartner C, Schroettner J. A novel hybrid modeling approach for the evaluation of integrated care and economic outcome in heart failure treatment. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2019; 19:229. [PMID: 31752819 PMCID: PMC6868721 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-019-0944-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Demographic changes, increased life expectancy and the associated rise in chronic diseases pose challenges to public health care systems. Optimized treatment methods and integrated concepts of care are potential solutions to overcome increasing financial burdens and improve quality of care. In this context modeling is a powerful tool to evaluate potential benefits of different treatment procedures on health outcomes as well as health care budgets. This work presents a novel modeling approach for simulating different treatment procedures of heart failure patients based on extensive data sets from outpatient and inpatient care. Methods Our hybrid heart failure model is based on discrete event and agent based methodologies and facilitates the incorporation of different therapeutic procedures for outpatient and inpatient care on patient individual level. The state of health is modeled with the functional classification of the New York Heart Association (NYHA), strongly affecting discrete state transition probabilities alongside age and gender. Cooperation with Austrian health care and health insurance providers allowed the realization of a detailed model structure based on clinical data of more than 25,000 patients. Results Simulation results of conventional care and a telemonitoring program underline the unfavorable prognosis for heart failure and reveal the correlation of NYHA classes with health and economic outcomes. Average expenses for the treatment of NYHA class IV patients of €10,077 ± €165 were more than doubled compared to other classes. The selected use case of a telemonitoring program demonstrated potential cost savings within two years of application. NYHA classes II and III revealed most potential for additional treatment measures. Conclusion The presented model allows performing extensive simulations of established treatment procedures for heart failure patients and evaluating new holistic methods of care and innovative study designs. This approach offers health care providers a unique, adaptable and comprehensive tool for decision making in the complex and socioeconomically challenging field of cardiovascular diseases.
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Velpula PK, Ďurák M, Kramer D, Meadows AR, Vilémová M, Rus B. Evolution of femtosecond laser damage in a hafnia-silica multi-layer dielectric coating. Opt Lett 2019; 44:5342-5345. [PMID: 31675003 DOI: 10.1364/ol.44.005342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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To optimize optical coating materials, designs, and technologies for high damage resistance, understanding the growth of laser damage is of paramount importance. In this Letter, we show the evolution of femtosecond laser damage in a hafnia-silica (HfO2/SiO2) multilayer dielectric mirror coating. Depending on various spatial features of damaged sites, we identified several regimes of the laser-material interaction with varying laser fluence and incident number of pulses. A change in surface roughness has been observed only for a small number of pulses, and interestingly, a threshold number of pulses is found for nanocrack formation. We report the polarization-dependent orientation of nanocracks and their growth with an increasing number of pulses. The presented results demonstrate that the laser damage originates from the nanobumps and surface roughening, which then leads to the formation of nanocracks. The presented experimental results acknowledge the existing theoretical models in bulk dielectrics to explain the formation of nanostructures by interference of the incident laser with the scattering radiation from laser-induced inhomogeneities and growth of the field enhancement due to nanoplasma.
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Chen M, Chao Y, Tenner L, Hung N, Cutler D, Kramer D, Kwan MFR, Hung CT. A phase Ib study of oraxol in combination with ramucirumab in patients with gastric or esophageal cancers who failed previous chemotherapy. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz247.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Loong HHF, Mennel R, Wagner M, Tse T, Lau YM, Yuen C, Moore R, Kwan MFR, Cutler D, Kramer D, Chan WK, Ravi V. A pilot study of oral paclitaxel (ORAXOL) in subjects with cutaneous angiosarcomas (KX-ORAX-010). Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz283.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Jackson CGCA, Deva S, Bayston K, McLaren B, Barlow P, Hung N, Clarke K, Segelov E, Chao TY, Dai MS, Yen HT, Cutler D, Kramer D, Zhi J, Chan WK, Kwan MFR, Hung CT. An international randomized cross-over bio-equivalence study of oral paclitaxel + HM30181 compared with weekly intravenous (IV) paclitaxel in patients with advanced solid tumours. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz244.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Veeranki SPK, Hayn D, Jauk S, Quehenberger F, Kramer D, Leodolter W, Schreier G. An Improvised Classification Model for Predicting Delirium. Stud Health Technol Inform 2019; 264:1566-1567. [PMID: 31438234 DOI: 10.3233/shti190537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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With the vast increase of digital healthcare data, there is an opportunity to mine the data for understanding inherent health patterns. Although machine-learning techniques demonstrated their applications in healthcare to answer several questions, there is still room for improvement in every aspect. In this paper, we are demonstrating a method that improves the performance of a delirium prediction model using random forest in combination with logistic regression.
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- CBmed, Graz, Austria.,Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Stark G, Hasiba K, Leodolter W, Schulz S, Kainz J. Development of a Machine Learning Model Predicting an ICU Admission for Patients with Elective Surgery and Its Prospective Validation in Clinical Practice. Stud Health Technol Inform 2019; 264:173-177. [PMID: 31437908 DOI: 10.3233/shti190206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Frequent utilization of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is associated with higher costs and decreased availability for patients who urgently need it. Common risk assessment tool, like the ASA score, lack objectivity and do account only for some influencing parameters. The aim of our study was (1) to develop a reliable machine learning model predicting ICU admission risk after elective surgery, and (2) to implement it in a clinical workflow. We used electronic medical records from more than 61,000 patients for modelling. A random forest model outperformed other methods with an area under the curve of 0.91 in the retrospective test set. In the prospective implementation, the model achieved a sensitivity of 73.3% and a specificity of 80.8%. Further research is essential to determine physicians' attitudes to machine learning models and assess the long term improvement of ICU management.
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- Stefanie Jauk
- CBmed, Graz, Austria.,Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Kreuzthaler M, Pfeifer B, Vera Ramos JA, Kramer D, Grogger V, Bredenfeldt S, Pedevilla M, Krisper P, Schulz S. EHR problem list clustering for improved topic-space navigation. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2019; 19:72. [PMID: 30943968 PMCID: PMC6448176 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-019-0789-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The amount of patient-related information within clinical information systems accumulates over time, especially in cases where patients suffer from chronic diseases with many hospitalizations and consultations. The diagnosis or problem list is an important feature of the electronic health record, which provides a dynamic account of a patient’s current illness and past history. In the case of an Austrian hospital network, problem list entries are limited to fifty characters and are potentially linked to ICD-10. The requirement of producing ICD codes at each hospital stay, together with the length limitation of list items leads to highly redundant problem lists, which conflicts with the physicians’ need of getting a good overview of a patient in short time. This paper investigates a method, by which problem list items can be semantically grouped, in order to allow for fast navigation through patient-related topic spaces. Methods We applied a minimal language-dependent preprocessing strategy and mapped problem list entries as tf-idf weighted character 3-grams into a numerical vector space. Based on this representation we used the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) clustering algorithm with cosine distances and inferred an optimal boundary in order to form semantically consistent topic spaces, taking into consideration different levels of dimensionality reduction via latent semantic analysis (LSA). Results With the proposed clustering approach, evaluated via an intra- and inter-patient scenario in combination with a natural language pipeline, we achieved an average compression rate of 80% of the initial list items forming consistent semantic topic spaces with an F-measure greater than 0.80 in both cases. The average number of identified topics in the intra-patient case (μIntra = 78.4) was slightly lower than in the inter-patient case (μInter = 83.4). LSA-based feature space reduction had no significant positive performance impact in our investigations. Conclusions The investigation presented here is centered on a data-driven solution to the known problem of information overload, which causes ineffective human-computer interactions at clinicians’ work places. This problem is addressed by navigable disease topic spaces where related items are grouped and the topics can be more easily accessed.
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- Markus Kreuzthaler
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria. .,CBmed GmbH - Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine, Graz, Austria.
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.,CBmed GmbH - Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria
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- Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Hendrix MLE, van Kuijk SMJ, Gavilanes AWD, Kramer D, Spaanderman MEA, Al Nasiry S. Reduced fetal growth velocities and the association with neonatal outcomes in appropriate-for-gestational-age neonates: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2019; 19:31. [PMID: 30646865 PMCID: PMC6332558 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-018-2167-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Accepted: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background Fetal growth restriction is, despite advances in neonatal care and uptake of antenatal ultrasound scanning, still a major cause of perinatal morbidity. Neonates with birth weight > 10th percentile are assumed to be appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA), although many are at increased risk of perinatal morbidity, because of undetected mild restriction of growth potential. We hypothesized that within AGA neonates, reduced fetal growth velocities are associated with adverse neonatal outcome. Methods A retrospective cohort study of singleton pregnancies, in the Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC) between 2010 and 2016. Women had two fetal biometry scans (18–22 weeks and 30–34 weeks of gestational age) and delivered a newborn with a birth weight between the 10th–80th percentile. Differences in growth velocities of the abdominal circumference (AC), biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC) and femur length (FL) were compared between the suboptimal AGA (sAGA) (birth weight centiles 10–50) and optimal AGA (oAGA) (birth weight centiles 50–80) group. We assessed the association between velocities and neonatal outcomes. Results We included 934 singleton pregnancies. In the suboptimal AGA group, fetal growth velocities were lower (in mm/week): AC 10.72 ± 1.00 vs 11.23 ± 1.00 (p < .001), HC 10.50 ± 0.80 vs 10.68 ± 0.77 (p = 0.001), BPD 3.01 ± 0.28 vs 3.08 ± 0.27 (p < .0001) and FL 2.47 ± 0.21 vs 2.50 ± 0.22 (p = 0.014), compared to the optimal AGA group. Neonates with an adverse neonatal outcome had significantly lower growth velocities (in mm/week) of: AC 10.57 vs 10.94 (p = 0.034), HC 10.28 vs 10.59 (p = 0.003) and BPD 2.97 vs 3.04 (p = 0.043) compared to those with normal outcome. An inverse association was observed between the AC velocity and a composite adverse neonatal outcome (OR) = 0.667 (95%CI 0.507–0.879, p = 0.004), and between the AC velocity and neonates with NICU stay (OR) = 0.733 (95%CI 0.570–0.942, p = 0.015). Neonates with a birthweight lower than expected (based on the abdominal circumference at 20 weeks) had significantly more composite adverse neonatal outcomes 8.5% vs 5.0% (p = 0.047), NICU stays 9.6% vs 3.8% (p < .0001) and hospital stays 44.4% vs 35.6% (p = 0.006). Conclusions Appropriate-for-gestational-age neonates are a heterogeneous group with some showing suboptimal fetal growth. Abnormal fetal growth velocities, especially abdominal circumference velocity, are associated with adverse neonatal outcome and can potentially improve the detection of mild growth restriction when used in multivariate models.
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- M L E Hendrix
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), PO Box 5800, 6202, AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment (KEMTA), Maastricht, University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediatrics, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Department of Translational Neuroscience, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Institute of Biomedicine, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), PO Box 5800, 6202, AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), PO Box 5800, 6202, AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), PO Box 5800, 6202, AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Quehenberger F, Veeranki SPK, Hayn D, Schreier G, Leodolter W. Information Adapted Machine Learning Models for Prediction in Clinical Workflow. Stud Health Technol Inform 2019; 260:65-72. [PMID: 31118320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND In a database of electronic health records, the amount of available information varies widely between patients. In a real-time prediction scenario, a machine learning model may receive limited information for some patients. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to evaluate the influence of missing data on real-time prediction of delirium, and detect changes in prediction performance when training separate models for patients with missing data. METHODS We compared a model trained specifically on data with missing values to the currently implemented model predicting delirium. Also, we simulated five test data sets with different amount of missing data and compared the prediction results to the prediction on complete data set when using the same model. RESULTS For patients with missing laboratory and nursing assessment data, a model trained especially for this scenario performed significantly better than the implemented model. The combination of procedure data and demographic data achieved the closest results to a prediction with a complete data set. CONCLUSION An ongoing evaluation of real-time prediction is indispensable. Additional models adapted to the information available might improve prediction performance.
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Veeranki SPK, Kramer D, Hayn D, Jauk S, Eggerth A, Quehenberger F, Leodolter W, Schreier G. Is Regular Re-Training of a Predictive Delirium Model Necessary After Deployment in Routine Care? Stud Health Technol Inform 2019; 260:186-191. [PMID: 31118336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Adoption of electronic medical records in hospitals generates a large amount of data. Health care professionals can easily lose their sight on the important insights of the patients' clinical and medical history. Although machine learning algorithms have already proved their significance in healthcare research, remains a challenge translation and dissemination of fully automated prediction algorithms from research to decision support at the point of care. In this paper, we address the effect of changes in the characteristics of data over time on the performance of deployed models for the use case of predicting delirium in hospitalised patients. We have analysed the stability of models trained with subsets of data from one single year (2012, 2013...2016, respectively), and tested the models with data from 2017. Our results show that in the case of delirium prediction, the models were stable over time, indicating that re-training the models is not necessary e.g. once per year might be more than sufficient.
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Joudi N, Andrade F, Llanes I, Garcia M, Kramer D, Carugno J. 101: Analysis of implementation of a hysterectomy clinical decision tree algorithm in a large academic center. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.12.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Veeranki SPK, Hayn D, Kramer D, Jauk S, Schreier G. Effect of Nursing Assessment on Predictive Delirium Models in Hospitalised Patients. Stud Health Technol Inform 2018; 248:124-131. [PMID: 29726428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Delirium is an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome which is common in elderly patients during their hospitalisation and is associated with an increased mortality and morbidity. Since delirium is a) often underdiagnosed and b) preventable if early signs are detected,igh expectations are set in delirium risk assessment during hospital admission. In our latest studies, we showed that delirium prediction using machine learning algorithms is possible based on the patients' health history. The aim of this study is to compare the influence of nursing assessment data on prediction models with clinical and demographic data. We approached the problem by a) comparing the performance of predictive models including nursing data with models based on clinical and demographic data only and b) analysing the feature importance of all available features. From our results we concluded that nursing assessment data can improve the performance of delirium prediction models better than demographic, laboratory, diagnosis, procedures, and previous transfers' data alone.
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Leodolter W. Cleansing and Imputation of Body Mass Index Data and Its Impact on a Machine Learning Based Prediction Model. Stud Health Technol Inform 2018; 248:116-123. [PMID: 29726427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND A challenge of using electronic health records for secondary analyses is data quality. Body mass index (BMI) is an important predictor for various diseases but often not documented properly. OBJECTIVES The aim of our study is to perform data cleansing on BMI values and to find the best method for an imputation of missing values in order to increase data quality. Further, we want to assess the effect of changes in data quality on the performance of a prediction model based on machine learning. METHODS After data cleansing on BMI data, we compared machine learning methods and statistical methods in their accuracy of imputed values using the root mean square error. In a second step, we used three variations of BMI data as a training set for a model predicting the occurrence of delirium. RESULTS Neural network and linear regression models performed best for imputation. There were no changes in model performance for different BMI input data. CONCLUSION Although data quality issues may lead to biases, it does not always affect performance of secondary analyses.
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Kreuzthaler M, Pfeifer B, Vera Ramos JA, Kramer D, Grogger V, Bredenfeldt S, Pedevilla M, Krisper P, Schulz S. EHR Text Categorization for Enhanced Patient-Based Document Navigation. Stud Health Technol Inform 2018; 248:100-107. [PMID: 29726425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Patients with multiple disorders usually have long diagnosis lists, constitute by ICD-10 codes together with individual free-text descriptions. These text snippets are produced by overwriting standardized ICD-Code topics by the physicians at the point of care. They provide highly compact expert descriptions within a 50-character long text field frequently not assigned to a specific ICD-10 code. The high redundancy of these lists would benefit from content-based categorization within different hospital-based application scenarios. This work demonstrates how to accurately group diagnosis lists via a combination of natural language processing and hierarchical clustering with an overall F-measure value of 0.87. In addition, it compresses the initial diagnosis list up to 89%. The manuscript discusses pitfall and challenges as well as the potential of a large-scale approach for tackling this problem.
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- Markus Kreuzthaler
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- KAGes Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, Austria
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- Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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Veeranki S, Hayn D, Eggerth A, Jauk S, Kramer D, Leodolter W, Schreier G. On the Representation of Machine Learning Results for Delirium Prediction in a Hospital Information System in Routine Care. Stud Health Technol Inform 2018; 251:97-100. [PMID: 29968611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Digitalisation of health care for the purpose of medical documentation lead to huge amounts of data, hence having an opportunity to derive knowledge and associations of different attributes recorded. Many health care events can be prevented when identified. Machine learning algorithms could identify such events but there is ambiguity in understanding the suggestions especially in clinical setup. In this paper we are presenting how we explain the decision based on random forest to health care professionals in the course of the project predicting delirium during hospitalisation on the day of admission.
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- Sai Veeranki
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Jauk S, Kramer D, Schulz S, Leodolter W. Evaluating the Impact of Incorrect Diabetes Coding on the Performance of Multivariable Prediction Models. Stud Health Technol Inform 2018; 251:249-252. [PMID: 29968650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The use of electronic health records for risk prediction models requires a sufficient quality of input data to ensure patient safety. The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of incorrect administrative diabetes coding on the performance of a risk prediction model for delirium, as diabetes is known to be one of the most relevant variables for delirium prediction. We used four data sets varying in their correctness and completeness of diabetes coding as input for different machine learning algorithms. Although there was a higher prevalence of diabetes in delirium patients, the model performance parameters did not vary between the data sets. Hence, there was no significant impact of incorrect diabetes coding on the performance for our model predicting delirium.
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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van Schaik IN, Bril V, van Geloven N, Hartung HP, Lewis RA, Sobue G, Lawo JP, Praus M, Mielke O, Durn BL, Cornblath DR, Merkies ISJ, Sabet A, George K, Roberts L, Carne R, Blum S, Henderson R, Van Damme P, Demeestere J, Larue S, D'Amour C, Bril V, Breiner A, Kunc P, Valis M, Sussova J, Kalous T, Talab R, Bednar M, Toomsoo T, Rubanovits I, Gross-Paju K, Sorro U, Saarela M, Auranen M, Pouget J, Attarian S, Le Masson G, Wielanek-Bachelet A, Desnuelle C, Delmont E, Clavelou P, Aufauvre D, Schmidt J, Zschuentssch J, Sommer C, Kramer D, Hoffmann O, Goerlitz C, Haas J, Chatzopoulos M, Yoon R, Gold R, Berlit P, Jaspert-Grehl A, Liebetanz D, Kutschenko A, Stangel M, Trebst C, Baum P, Bergh F, Klehmet J, Meisel A, Klostermann F, Oechtering J, Lehmann H, Schroeter M, Hagenacker T, Mueller D, Sperfeld A, Bethke F, Drory V, Algom A, Yarnitsky D, Murinson B, Di Muzio A, Ciccocioppo F, Sorbi S, Mata S, Schenone A, Grandis M, Lauria G, Cazzato D, Antonini G, Morino S, Cocito D, Zibetti M, Yokota T, Ohkubo T, Kanda T, Kawai M, Kaida K, Onoue H, Kuwabara S, Mori M, Iijima M, Ohyama K, Baba M, Tomiyama M, Nishiyama K, Akutsu T, Yokoyama K, Kanai K, van Schaik I, Eftimov F, Notermans N, Visser N, Faber C, Hoeijmakers J, Rejdak K, Chyrchel-Paszkiewicz U, Casanovas Pons C, Alberti Aguiló M, Gamez J, Figueras M, Marquez Infante C, Benitez Rivero S, Lunn M, Morrow J, Gosal D, Lavin T, Melamed I, Testori A, Ajroud-Driss S, Menichella D, Simpson E, Chi-Ho Lai E, Dimachkie M, Barohn R, Beydoun S, Johl H, Lange D, Shtilbans A, Muley S, Ladha S, Freimer M, Kissel J, Latov N, Chin R, Ubogu E, Mumfrey S, Rao T, MacDonald P, Sharma K, Gonzalez G, Allen J, Walk D, Hobson-Webb L, Gable K. Subcutaneous immunoglobulin for maintenance treatment in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (PATH): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Neurol 2018; 17:35-46. [DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(17)30378-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Revised: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Jackson CGCA, Deva S, Bayston K, Barlow P, Eden K, Hung N, Fetterly G, Cutler D, Kwan R, Kramer D, Chan WK, Hung T. An open-label, randomized cross-over bioavailability study of oral paclitaxel and HM30181 compared with weekly intravenous (IV) paclitaxel in patients with advanced solid tumours. Ann Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Becker D, Kramer D, Müllges W, Boelmans K. P 164 Parietal stroke mimicking the Heidenhain variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Clin Neurophysiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.06.235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Moschny J, Schneider P, Lorenzen W, Jahns S, Enke H, Kramer D, Niedermeyer Timo HJ. New approaches to handle old compounds – the generation of microcystin and nodularin derivatives with “clickable” features. Am J Transl Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1608362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- J Moschny
- Institute of Pharmacy, RG Biogenic Drugs, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Hoher Weg 8, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Cyano Biotech GmbH, Magnusstr. 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Cyano Biotech GmbH, Magnusstr. 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Cyano Biotech GmbH, Magnusstr. 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Cyano Biotech GmbH, Magnusstr. 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy, RG Biogenic Drugs, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Hoher Weg 8, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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Boyden LM, Craiglow BG, Hu RH, Zhou J, Browning J, Eichenfield L, Lim YL, Luu M, Randolph LM, Ginarte M, Fachal L, Rodriguez-Pazos L, Vega A, Kramer D, Yosipovitch G, Vahidnezhad H, Youssefian L, Uitto J, Lifton RP, Paller AS, Milstone LM, Choate KA. Phenotypic spectrum of autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis due to PNPLA1 mutation. Br J Dermatol 2017; 177:319-322. [PMID: 28403545 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.15570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- L M Boyden
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A.,Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Baylor College of Medicine, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, National Skin Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Dermatology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica-USC, CIBERER, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Servicio de Dermatología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica-USC, CIBERER, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, U.S.A
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- Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A.,Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A.,Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208059, New Haven, CT, 06520, U.S.A
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Desai A, Chow K, Wan P, O’shea D, Ranaghan C, Anderson K, Kramer D, Goldberg J, Rawlins R, Koczela E, Klimek V. Impact of Early Integration of Palliative Care on Health Care Proxy (HCP) Documentation by Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS). Leuk Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/s0145-2126(17)30334-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Kramer D, Veeranki S, Hayn D, Quehenberger F, Leodolter W, Jagsch C, Schreier G. Development and Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model for the Occurrence of Delirium in Hospitalized Gerontopsychiatry and Internal Medicine Patients. Stud Health Technol Inform 2017; 236:32-39. [PMID: 28508776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Delirium is an acute confusion condition, which is common in elderly and often misdiagnosed in hospitalized patients. Early identification and prevention of delirium could reduce morbidity and mortality rates in those affected and reduce hospitalization costs. We have developed and validated a multivariate prediction model that predicts delirium and gives an early warning to physicians. A large set of patient electronic medical records have been used in developing the models. Classical learning algorithms have been used to develop the models and compared the results. Excellent results were obtained with the feature set and parameter settings attaining accuracy of 84%.
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- Diether Kramer
- Steirische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Graz, Austria
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- Steirische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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- Steirische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H. (KAGes), Graz, Austria
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Nemajerova A, Kramer D, Siller S, Herr C, Shomroni O, Pena T, Gallinas Suazo C, Glaser K, Wildung M, Steffen H, Sriraman A, Oberle F, Wienken M, Hennion M, Vidal R, Royen B, Alevra M, Schild D, Bals R, Dönitz J, Riedel D, Bonn S, Takemaru KI, Moll U, Lizé M. TAp73 is a central transcriptional regulator of airway multiciliogenesis and protects bronchial function. Pneumologie 2016. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1592291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Gunabushanam V, Clendenon J, Aldag E, Chadha M, Kramer D, Steers J, Sahajpal A. En Bloc Liver Kidney Transplantation Using Donor Splenic Artery as Inflow to the Kidney: Report of Two Cases. Am J Transplant 2016; 16:3046-3048. [PMID: 27224090 DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Revised: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The number of simultaneous liver-kidney transplants has been increasing. This surgery is associated with an increased risk of complications, longer duration of surgery and longer ischemia time for the renal allograft. Two patients listed for liver-kidney transplant at our center underwent en bloc combined liver-kidney transplantation using donor splenic artery as inflow. Patient 1 previously underwent cardiac catheterization that was complicated by a bleeding pseudoaneurysm of the right external iliac artery that required endovascular stenting of the external iliac artery and embolization of the inferior epigastric artery. Patient 2 was on vasopressor support and continuous renal replacement therapy at the time of transplant. In this paper, we described a novel technique of en bloc liver-kidney transplant with simultaneous reperfusion of both allografts using the donor splenic artery for renal inflow. This technique is useful for decreasing cold ischemia time and total operative time by simultaneous reperfusion of both allografts. It is a useful technical variant that can be used in patients with severe disease of the iliac arteries.
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- V Gunabushanam
- Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.,Division of Critical Care, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Critical Care, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Aurora-St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
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Rup B, Pallardy M, Sikkema D, Albert T, Allez M, Broet P, Carini C, Creeke P, Davidson J, De Vries N, Finco D, Fogdell-Hahn A, Havrdova E, Hincelin-Mery A, C Holland M, H Jensen PE, Jury EC, Kirby H, Kramer D, Lacroix-Desmazes S, Legrand J, Maggi E, Maillère B, Mariette X, Mauri C, Mikol V, Mulleman D, Oldenburg J, Paintaud G, R Pedersen C, Ruperto N, Seitz R, Spindeldreher S, Deisenhammer F. Standardizing terms, definitions and concepts for describing and interpreting unwanted immunogenicity of biopharmaceuticals: recommendations of the Innovative Medicines Initiative ABIRISK consortium. Clin Exp Immunol 2015; 181:385-400. [PMID: 25959571 PMCID: PMC4557374 DOI: 10.1111/cei.12652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Biopharmaceuticals (BPs) represent a rapidly growing class of approved and investigational drug therapies that is contributing significantly to advancing treatment in multiple disease areas, including inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, genetic deficiencies and cancer. Unfortunately, unwanted immunogenic responses to BPs, in particular those affecting clinical safety or efficacy, remain among the most common negative effects associated with this important class of drugs. To manage and reduce risk of unwanted immunogenicity, diverse communities of clinicians, pharmaceutical industry and academic scientists are involved in: interpretation and management of clinical and biological outcomes of BP immunogenicity, improvement of methods for describing, predicting and mitigating immunogenicity risk and elucidation of underlying causes. Collaboration and alignment of efforts across these communities is made difficult due to lack of agreement on concepts, practices and standardized terms and definitions related to immunogenicity. The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI; http://www.imi-europe.org), ABIRISK consortium [Anti-Biopharmaceutical (BP) Immunization Prediction and Clinical Relevance to Reduce the Risk; http://www.abirisk.eu] was formed by leading clinicians, academic scientists and EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations) members to elucidate underlying causes, improve methods for immunogenicity prediction and mitigation and establish common definitions around terms and concepts related to immunogenicity. These efforts are expected to facilitate broader collaborations and lead to new guidelines for managing immunogenicity. To support alignment, an overview of concepts behind the set of key terms and definitions adopted to date by ABIRISK is provided herein along with a link to access and download the ABIRISK terms and definitions and provide comments (http://www.abirisk.eu/index_t_and_d.asp).
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- B Rup
- Pfizer, Immunogenicity Sciences Disciple, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism
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- INSERM, UMR996, Faculté Pharmacie, Université Paris Sud, France
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- GlaxoSmithKline, Clinical Immunology-Biopharm, King of Prussia, PA, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Clinic Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Hôpital Saint-Louis, Department of Gastroenterology, GETAID, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR669, University of Paris Sud, France
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- Pfizer, Early Biotech Clinical Development, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- GlaxoSmithKline, Worldwide Epidemiology, Southall, UK
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- Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Pfizer, Drug Safety R&D, Groton, CT, USA
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Clinical Neuroscience, MS Center, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Sanofi-Aventis, Clinical Exploratory and Pharmacology, Chilly-Mazerin, FR
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- GlaxoSmithKline, Clinical Immunology-Biopharm R&D, King of Prussia, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, London, UK
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- UCB Pharma, Bioanalytical R&D, Slough, UK
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- Merck-Serono, Institute of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Grafing, Germany
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- Ipsen Innovation, Pharmacokinetics Drug Metabolism Department, Les Ulis, France
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Universita di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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- CEA-Saclay Institute of Biology and Technologies, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- INSERM, U1012, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Sud, Rhumatologie, Paris, France
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- Centre for Rheumatology Research, University College London, London, UK
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- Sanofi Aventis, Structural Biology, Paris, France
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- University of Tours Francois Rabelais, CNRS UMR 7292, Tours, France
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- Institute of Experimental Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, University Clinic Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- CNRS UMR 7292 'GICC', Faculty of Medicine, Tours, France
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- Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Rheumatology, Genova, Italy
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- Division of Haematology/Transfusion Medicine, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany
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- Drug Metabolism Pharmacokinetics-Biologics, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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Kramer D, Schön M, Bayerlová M, Bleckmann A, Schön MP, Zörnig M, Dobbelstein M. A pro-apoptotic function of iASPP by stabilizing p300 and CBP through inhibition of BRMS1 E3 ubiquitin ligase activity. Cell Death Dis 2015; 6:e1634. [PMID: 25675294 PMCID: PMC4669821 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2015.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 12/27/2014] [Accepted: 01/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
The p53 family and its cofactors are potent inducers of apoptosis and form a barrier to cancer. Here, we investigated the impact of the supposedly inhibitory member of the apoptosis-stimulating protein of p53, iASPP, on the activity of the p53 homolog TAp73, and its cofactors p300 and CBP. We found that iASPP interacted with and stabilized the histone acetyltransferase p300 and its homolog CBP upon cisplatin treatment. Vice versa, iASPP depletion by shRNA resulted in decreased amounts of p300 and CBP, impaired binding of p300 and TAp73 to target site promoters, reduced induction of pro-apoptotic TAp73 target genes, and impaired apoptosis. Mechanistically, we observed that the p300-regulatory E3 ubiquitin ligase BRMS1 could rescue the degradation of p300 and CBP in cisplatin-treated, iASPP-depleted cells. This argues that iASPP stabilizes p300 and CBP by interfering with their BRMS1-mediated ubiquitination, thereby contributing to apoptotic susceptibility. In line, iASPP overexpression partially abolished the interaction of BRMS1 and CBP upon DNA damage. Reduced levels of iASPP mRNA and protein as well as CBP protein were observed in human melanoma compared with normal skin tissue and benign melanocytic nevi. In line with our findings, iASPP overexpression or knockdown of BRMS1 each augmented p300/CBP levels in melanoma cell lines, thereby enhancing apoptosis upon DNA damage. Taken together, destabilization of p300/CBP by downregulation of iASPP expression levels appears to represent a molecular mechanism that contributes to chemoresistance in melanoma cells.
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- D Kramer
- Department of Molecular Oncology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Georg Speyer Haus, Frankfurt am Main,Germany
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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