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ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2021

Development and validation of Auto-Neo-electroencephalography (EEG) to estimate brain age and predict report conclusion for electroencephalography monitoring data in neonatal intensive care units.

Xinran Dong, Yanting Kong, Yan Xu, Yuanfeng Zhou, Xinhua Wang, Tiantian Xiao, Bin Chen, Yulan Lu, Guoqiang Cheng, Wenhao Zhou

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Article in Annals of translational medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Xinran DongCenter for Molecular Medicine, Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Yanting KongDivision of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Yan XuCenter for Molecular Medicine, Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Yuanfeng ZhouDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Xinhua WangDivision of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Tiantian XiaoDivision of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Bin ChenDivision of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Yulan LuCenter for Molecular Medicine, Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Guoqiang ChengDivision of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Wenhao ZhouCenter for Molecular Medicine, Pediatric Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
Children's Hospital of Fudan University · CNUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CN

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Abstract

backgroundElectroencephalography (EEG) monitoring is widely used in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). However, conventional EEG report generation processes are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, an automatic, objective, and comprehensive pipeline for brain age estimation and EEG report conclusion prediction is urgently needed to assist clinician's decision-making.

methodsWe recruited patients who underwent EEG monitoring from the NICU at Children's Hospital of Fudan University from Jan. 2016 to Mar. 2018. A total of 1,851 subjects were enrolled, including the patient's conceptional age (CA) and the clinical EEG report conclusion (normal, slightly abnormal, moderately abnormal, or severely abnormal). A total of 1,591 subjects were used to generate predictive models and 260 were used as the validation dataset. We developed Auto-Neo-EEG (an automatic prediction system to assist clinical neonatal EEG report generation), including signal feature extraction, supervised machine learning realized by gradient boosted models, to estimate brain age and predict EEG report conclusion.

resultsThe predicted results from the validation dataset were compared with the clinical observations to assess the performance. In the independent validation dataset, the model could achieve accordance 0.904 on estimating brain age for neonates with normal clinical EEG report conclusion, and differences between the predicted and observed brain age were strongly related with EEG report conclusion abnormality. Further, as for the EEG report conclusion prediction, the model could achieve area under the curve (AUC) of 0.984 for severely abnormal situations, and 0.857 for moderately abnormal ones.

conclusionsThe Auto-Neo-EEG has the high accuracy of estimating brain age and EEG report conclusion, which can potentially greatly accelerate the EEG report generation processes assist in clinical decision making.

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brain age estimationelectroencephalography monitormachine learning modelNeonatesneural signal processing

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