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ArticleScientific reports2022

An explainable machine learning framework for lung cancer hospital length of stay prediction.

Belal Alsinglawi, Osama Alshari, Mohammed Alorjani, Omar Mubin, Fady Alnajjar, Mauricio Novoa, Omar Darwish

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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43citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Belal AlsinglawiSchool of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University, Rydalmere, 2116, NSW, Australia.
Osama AlshariOncology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Mohammed AlorjaniDepartment of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Omar MubinSchool of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University, Rydalmere, 2116, NSW, Australia.
Fady AlnajjarCollege of Information Technology, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE. fady.alnajjar@uaeu.ac.ae.
Mauricio NovoaThe School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Rydalmere, 2116, NSW, Australia.
Omar DarwishDepartment of Information Security and Applied Computing, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, 48197, USA.
Western Sydney University · AUJordan University of Science and Technology · JOEastern Michigan University · USUnited Arab Emirates University · AE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work introduces a predictive Length of Stay (LOS) framework for lung cancer patients using machine learning (ML) models. The framework proposed to deal with imbalanced datasets for classification-based approaches using electronic healthcare records (EHR). We have utilized supervised ML methods to predict lung cancer inpatients LOS during ICU hospitalization using the MIMIC-III dataset. Random Forest (RF) Model outperformed other models and achieved predicted results during the three framework phases. With clinical significance features selection, over-sampling methods (SMOTE and ADASYN) achieved the highest AUC results (98% with CI 95%: 95.3-100%, and 100% respectively). The combination of Over-sampling and under-sampling achieved the second-highest AUC results (98%, with CI 95%: 95.3-100%, and 97%, CI 95%: 93.7-100% SMOTE-Tomek, and SMOTE-ENN respectively). Under-sampling methods reported the least important AUC results (50%, with CI 95%: 40.2-59.8%) for both (ENN and Tomek- Links). Using ML explainable technique called SHAP, we explained the outcome of the predictive model (RF) with SMOTE class balancing technique to understand the most significant clinical features that contributed to predicting lung cancer LOS with the RF model. Our promising framework allows us to employ ML techniques in-hospital clinical information systems to predict lung cancer admissions into ICU.

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Length of StayLung NeoplasmsMachine LearningHumans

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PMID35022512
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