Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Data Mining Applied to the Cognitive Rehabilitation of Patients with Acquired Brain Injury
Year:2012

Research Areas
  • Medicine,
  • Computer applications,
  • Medical computing,
  • Dataprocessing,
  • Database

Information
Abstract
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world and is associated with high health care costs as a result of the acute treatment and long term rehabilitation involved. Different algorithms and methods have been proposed to predict the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs. In general, research has focused on predicting the overall improvement of patients with ABI. The purpose of this study is the novel application of data mining (DM) techniques to predict the outcomes of cognitive rehabilitation in patients with ABI. We generate three predictive models that allow us to obtain new knowledge to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the cognitive rehabilitation process. Decision tree (DT), multilayer perceptron (MLP) and general regression neural network (GRNN) have been used to construct the prediction models. 10-fold cross validation was carried out in order to test the algorithms, using the Institut Guttmann Neurorehabilitation Hospital (IG) patients database. Performance of the models was tested through specificity, sensitivity and accuracy analysis and confusion matrix analysis. The experimental results obtained by DT are clearly superior with a prediction average accuracy of 90.38%, while MLP and GRRN obtained a 78.7% and 75.96%, respectively. This study allows to increase the knowledge about the contributing factors of an ABI patient recovery and to estimate treatment efficacy in individual patients.
International
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JCR
Si
Title
Expert Systems With Applications
ISBN
0957-4174
Impact factor JCR
1,924
Impact info
Datos JCR del año 2010
Volume
10.1016/j.eswa.2012.08.034
Journal number
From page
1054
To page
1060
Month
SIN MES
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Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Departamento: Tecnología Fotónica y Bioingeniería