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AuthorAlsaad R.
AuthorMalluhi Q.
AuthorJanahi I.
AuthorBoughorbel S.
Available date2020-04-01T06:59:43Z
Publication Date2019
Publication NameBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
ResourceScopus
ISSN14726947
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0951-4
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/13703
AbstractBackground: Predictive modeling with longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data offers great promise for accelerating personalized medicine and better informs clinical decision-making. Recently, deep learning models have achieved state-of-The-Art performance for many healthcare prediction tasks. However, deep models lack interpretability, which is integral to successful decision-making and can lead to better patient care. In this paper, we build upon the contextual decomposition (CD) method, an algorithm for producing importance scores from long short-Term memory networks (LSTMs). We extend the method to bidirectional LSTMs (BiLSTMs) and use it in the context of predicting future clinical outcomes using patients' EHR historical visits. Methods: We use a real EHR dataset comprising 11071 patients, to evaluate and compare CD interpretations from LSTM and BiLSTM models. First, we train LSTM and BiLSTM models for the task of predicting which pre-school children with respiratory system-related complications will have asthma at school-Age. After that, we conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate the CD interpretations produced by the contextual decomposition of the trained models. In addition, we develop an interactive visualization to demonstrate the utility of CD scores in explaining predicted outcomes. Results: Our experimental evaluation demonstrate that whenever a clear visit-level pattern exists, the models learn that pattern and the contextual decomposition can appropriately attribute the prediction to the correct pattern. In addition, the results confirm that the CD scores agree to a large extent with the importance scores generated using logistic regression coefficients. Our main insight was that rather than interpreting the attribution of individual visits to the predicted outcome, we could instead attribute a model's prediction to a group of visits. Conclusion: We presented a quantitative and qualitative evidence that CD interpretations can explain patient-specific predictions using CD attributions of individual visits or a group of visits. - 2019 The Author(s).
SponsorThis work is supported in part by Sidra Medicine under grant (SDR200043). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Languageen
PublisherBioMed Central Ltd.
SubjectDeep learning
Electronic health record
Interpretability
Predictive models
TitleInterpreting patient-Specific risk prediction using contextual decomposition of BiLSTMs: Application to children with asthma
TypeArticle
Issue Number1
Volume Number19


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