Pham Tuan D, Wang Honghui, Zhou Xiaobo, Beck Dominik, Brandl Miriam, Hoehn Gerard, Azok Joseph, Brennan Marie-Luise, Hazen Stanley L, Li King, Wong Stephen T C
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, the University of New South Wales, ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2006, Australia.
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2008 Sep;12(5):636-43. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2007.908756.
Early prediction of the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with chest pain is critical in order to provide appropriate medical care for those with positive diagnosis. This paper introduces a computational methodology for predicting such events in the context of robust computerized classification using mass spectrometry data of blood samples collected from patients in emergency departments. We applied the computational theories of statistical and geostatistical linear prediction models to extract effective features of the mass spectra and a simple decision logic to classify disease and control samples for the purpose of early detection. While the statistical and geostatistical techniques provide better results than those obtained from some other methods, the geostatistical approach yields superior results in terms of sensitivity and specificity in various designs of the data set for validation, training, and testing. The proposed computational strategies are very promising for predicting major adverse cardiac events within six months.
