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Sükei E, Romero-Medrano L, de Leon-Martinez S, Herrera López J, Campaña-Montes JJ, Olmos PM, Baca-Garcia E, Artés A. Continuous Assessment of Function and Disability via Mobile Sensing: Real-World Data-Driven Feasibility Study. JMIR Form Res 2023; 7:e47167. [PMID: 37902823 PMCID: PMC10644188 DOI: 10.2196/47167] [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: 03/17/2023] [Revised: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Functional limitations are associated with poor clinical outcomes, higher mortality, and disability rates, especially in older adults. Continuous assessment of patients' functionality is important for clinical practice; however, traditional questionnaire-based assessment methods are very time-consuming and infrequently used. Mobile sensing offers a great range of sources that can assess function and disability daily. OBJECTIVE This work aims to prove the feasibility of an interpretable machine learning pipeline for predicting function and disability based on the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 outcomes of clinical outpatients, using passively collected digital biomarkers. METHODS One-month-long behavioral time-series data consisting of physical and digital activity descriptor variables were summarized using statistical measures (minimum, maximum, mean, median, SD, and IQR), creating 64 features that were used for prediction. We then applied a sequential feature selection to each WHODAS 2.0 domain (cognition, mobility, self-care, getting along, life activities, and participation) in order to find the most descriptive features for each domain. Finally, we predicted the WHODAS 2.0 functional domain scores using linear regression using the best feature subsets. We reported the mean absolute errors and the mean absolute percentage errors over 4 folds as goodness-of-fit statistics to evaluate the model and allow for between-domain performance comparison. RESULTS Our machine learning-based models for predicting patients' WHODAS functionality scores per domain achieved an average (across the 6 domains) mean absolute percentage error of 19.5%, varying between 14.86% (self-care domain) and 27.21% (life activities domain). We found that 5-19 features were sufficient for each domain, and the most relevant being the distance traveled, time spent at home, time spent walking, exercise time, and vehicle time. CONCLUSIONS Our findings show the feasibility of using machine learning-based methods to assess functional health solely from passively sensed mobile data. The feature selection step provides a set of interpretable features for each domain, ensuring better explainability to the models' decisions-an important aspect in clinical practice.
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Affiliation(s)
- Emese Sükei
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
| | - Lorena Romero-Medrano
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
- Evidence-Based Behavior S.L., Leganés, Spain
| | - Santiago de Leon-Martinez
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
- Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
| | - Jesús Herrera López
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
- Evidence-Based Behavior S.L., Leganés, Spain
| | | | - Pablo M Olmos
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
- Grupo de Tratamiento de Señal, Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain
| | - Enrique Baca-Garcia
- Evidence-Based Behavior S.L., Leganés, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital of Villalba, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Infanta Elena, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, Madrid Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigacion en Salud Mental, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Nîmes, France
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain
| | - Antonio Artés
- Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
- Evidence-Based Behavior S.L., Leganés, Spain
- Grupo de Tratamiento de Señal, Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain
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