Li Runze, Tian Yu, Shen Zhuyi, Li Jin, Li Jun, Ding Kefeng, Li Jingsong
College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.
JMIR Med Inform. 2023 Jun 13;11:e47862. doi: 10.2196/47862.
BACKGROUND: Observational biomedical studies facilitate a new strategy for large-scale electronic health record (EHR) utilization to support precision medicine. However, data label inaccessibility is an increasingly important issue in clinical prediction, despite the use of synthetic and semisupervised learning from data. Little research has aimed to uncover the underlying graphical structure of EHRs. OBJECTIVE: A network-based generative adversarial semisupervised method is proposed. The objective is to train clinical prediction models on label-deficient EHRs to achieve comparable learning performance to supervised methods. METHODS: Three public data sets and one colorectal cancer data set gathered from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University were selected as benchmarks. The proposed models were trained on 5% to 25% labeled data and evaluated on classification metrics against conventional semisupervised and supervised methods. The data quality, model security, and memory scalability were also evaluated. RESULTS: The proposed method for semisupervised classification outperforms related semisupervised methods under the same setup, with the average area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) reaching 0.945, 0.673, 0.611, and 0.588 for the four data sets, respectively, followed by graph-based semisupervised learning (0.450, 0.454, 0.425, and 0.5676, respectively) and label propagation (0.475,0.344, 0.440, and 0.477, respectively). The average classification AUCs with 10% labeled data were 0.929, 0.719, 0.652, and 0.650, respectively, comparable to that of the supervised learning methods logistic regression (0.601, 0.670, 0.731, and 0.710, respectively), support vector machines (0.733, 0.720, 0.720, and 0.721, respectively), and random forests (0.982, 0.750, 0.758, and 0.740, respectively). The concerns regarding the secondary use of data and data security are alleviated by realistic data synthesis and robust privacy preservation. CONCLUSIONS: Training clinical prediction models on label-deficient EHRs is indispensable in data-driven research. The proposed method has great potential to exploit the intrinsic structure of EHRs and achieve comparable learning performance to supervised methods.
背景:观察性生物医学研究推动了一种利用大规模电子健康记录(EHR)来支持精准医学的新策略。然而,尽管采用了从数据中进行合成和半监督学习的方法,但在临床预测中,数据标签难以获取仍是一个日益重要的问题。很少有研究旨在揭示电子健康记录的潜在图形结构。 目的:提出一种基于网络的生成对抗半监督方法。目标是在标签缺失的电子健康记录上训练临床预测模型,以实现与监督方法相当的学习性能。 方法:选择三个公共数据集和一个从浙江大学医学院附属第二医院收集的结直肠癌数据集作为基准。所提出的模型在5%至25%的标记数据上进行训练,并根据分类指标与传统半监督和监督方法进行评估。还评估了数据质量、模型安全性和内存可扩展性。 结果:在相同设置下,所提出的半监督分类方法优于相关的半监督方法,四个数据集的受试者操作特征曲线下面积(AUC)平均值分别达到0.945、0.673、0.611和0.588,其次是基于图的半监督学习(分别为0.450、0.454、0.425和0.5676)和标签传播(分别为0.475、0.344、0.440和0.477)。使用10%标记数据时的平均分类AUC分别为0.929、0.719、0.652和0.650,与监督学习方法逻辑回归(分别为0.601、0.670、0.731和0.710)、支持向量机(分别为0.733、0.720、0.720和0.721)以及随机森林(分别为0.982、0.750、0.758和0.740)相当。现实的数据合成和强大的隐私保护减轻了对数据二次使用和数据安全的担忧。 结论:在标签缺失的电子健康记录上训练临床预测模型在数据驱动的研究中不可或缺。所提出的方法具有很大潜力来挖掘电子健康记录的内在结构,并实现与监督方法相当的学习性能。
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