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A machine-learning clustering approach for reference interval estimation of liver enzymes from hospital laboratory big-data.
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- Trimester-specific reference interval for glycated hemoglobin in non-diabetic pregnant women: A cross-sectional study.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2026Article
- Ensemble neural network modelling for stratified HbA1c prediction: Integrating past glucose measurement as a predictor of glycaemic control.Bioinformation · 2025Article
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Abstract
It is of interest to establish clinically valid reference intervals (RIs) for the liver enzymes aspartate transaminase (AST) and Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) using a combination of unsupervised machine learning clustering and robust outlier detection applied to real-world laboratory big data. Four outlier detection methods were each combined with four clustering algorithms to identify homogeneous subgroups and the largest cluster from each combination was used to estimate RIs based on percentile cut-offs. Among the tested combinations, DBSCAN with Tukey's fences or Local Outlier Factor achieved optimal performance, covering 100% of the validation data. The widest intervals were derived using Local Outlier Factor, while Isolation Forest yielded the narrowest. Ultimately, the study estimated the reference intervals for AST and ALT to be 15-41 U/L and 11-46 U/L, respectively.
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