Data-driven subgrouping of patient trajectories with chronic diseases: Evidence from low back pain

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Naumzik, Christof, Kongsted, Alice, Vach, Werner, Feuerriegel, Stefan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914757061115904
author Naumzik, Christof
Kongsted, Alice
Vach, Werner
Feuerriegel, Stefan
author_facet Naumzik, Christof
Kongsted, Alice
Vach, Werner
Feuerriegel, Stefan
contents Clinical data informs the personalization of health care with a potential for more effective disease management. In practice, this is achieved by subgrouping, whereby clusters with similar patient characteristics are identified and then receive customized treatment plans with the goal of targeting subgroup-specific disease dynamics. In this paper, we propose a novel mixture hidden Markov model for subgrouping patient trajectories from chronic diseases. Our model is probabilistic and carefully designed to capture different trajectory phases of chronic diseases (i.e., "severe", "moderate", and "mild") through tailored latent states. We demonstrate our subgrouping framework based on a longitudinal study across 847 patients with non-specific low back pain. Here, our subgrouping framework identifies 8 subgroups. Further, we show that our subgrouping framework outperforms common baselines in terms of cluster validity indices. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the model to other chronic and long-lasting diseases.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2404_10580
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Data-driven subgrouping of patient trajectories with chronic diseases: Evidence from low back pain
Naumzik, Christof
Kongsted, Alice
Vach, Werner
Feuerriegel, Stefan
Applications
Machine Learning
Methodology
Clinical data informs the personalization of health care with a potential for more effective disease management. In practice, this is achieved by subgrouping, whereby clusters with similar patient characteristics are identified and then receive customized treatment plans with the goal of targeting subgroup-specific disease dynamics. In this paper, we propose a novel mixture hidden Markov model for subgrouping patient trajectories from chronic diseases. Our model is probabilistic and carefully designed to capture different trajectory phases of chronic diseases (i.e., "severe", "moderate", and "mild") through tailored latent states. We demonstrate our subgrouping framework based on a longitudinal study across 847 patients with non-specific low back pain. Here, our subgrouping framework identifies 8 subgroups. Further, we show that our subgrouping framework outperforms common baselines in terms of cluster validity indices. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the model to other chronic and long-lasting diseases.
title Data-driven subgrouping of patient trajectories with chronic diseases: Evidence from low back pain
topic Applications
Machine Learning
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10580