Clustering of Disease Trajectories with Explainable Machine Learning: A Case Study on Postoperative Delirium Phenotypes

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Main Authors: Zheng, Xiaochen, Schürch, Manuel, Chen, Xingyu, Komninou, Maria Angeliki, Schüpbach, Reto, Allam, Ahmed, Bartussek, Jan, Krauthammer, Michael
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author Zheng, Xiaochen
Schürch, Manuel
Chen, Xingyu
Komninou, Maria Angeliki
Schüpbach, Reto
Allam, Ahmed
Bartussek, Jan
Krauthammer, Michael
author_facet Zheng, Xiaochen
Schürch, Manuel
Chen, Xingyu
Komninou, Maria Angeliki
Schüpbach, Reto
Allam, Ahmed
Bartussek, Jan
Krauthammer, Michael
contents The identification of phenotypes within complex diseases or syndromes is a fundamental component of precision medicine, which aims to adapt healthcare to individual patient characteristics. Postoperative delirium (POD) is a complex neuropsychiatric condition with significant heterogeneity in its clinical manifestations and underlying pathophysiology. We hypothesize that POD comprises several distinct phenotypes, which cannot be directly observed in clinical practice. Identifying these phenotypes could enhance our understanding of POD pathogenesis and facilitate the development of targeted prevention and treatment strategies. In this paper, we propose an approach that combines supervised machine learning for personalized POD risk prediction with unsupervised clustering techniques to uncover potential POD phenotypes. We first demonstrate our approach using synthetic data, where we simulate patient cohorts with predefined phenotypes based on distinct sets of informative features. We aim to mimic any clinical disease with our synthetic data generation method. By training a predictive model and applying SHAP, we show that clustering patients in the SHAP feature importance space successfully recovers the true underlying phenotypes, outperforming clustering in the raw feature space. We then present a case study using real-world data from a cohort of elderly surgical patients. The results showcase the utility of our approach in uncovering clinically relevant subtypes of complex disorders like POD, paving the way for more precise and personalized treatment strategies.
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spellingShingle Clustering of Disease Trajectories with Explainable Machine Learning: A Case Study on Postoperative Delirium Phenotypes
Zheng, Xiaochen
Schürch, Manuel
Chen, Xingyu
Komninou, Maria Angeliki
Schüpbach, Reto
Allam, Ahmed
Bartussek, Jan
Krauthammer, Michael
Machine Learning
The identification of phenotypes within complex diseases or syndromes is a fundamental component of precision medicine, which aims to adapt healthcare to individual patient characteristics. Postoperative delirium (POD) is a complex neuropsychiatric condition with significant heterogeneity in its clinical manifestations and underlying pathophysiology. We hypothesize that POD comprises several distinct phenotypes, which cannot be directly observed in clinical practice. Identifying these phenotypes could enhance our understanding of POD pathogenesis and facilitate the development of targeted prevention and treatment strategies. In this paper, we propose an approach that combines supervised machine learning for personalized POD risk prediction with unsupervised clustering techniques to uncover potential POD phenotypes. We first demonstrate our approach using synthetic data, where we simulate patient cohorts with predefined phenotypes based on distinct sets of informative features. We aim to mimic any clinical disease with our synthetic data generation method. By training a predictive model and applying SHAP, we show that clustering patients in the SHAP feature importance space successfully recovers the true underlying phenotypes, outperforming clustering in the raw feature space. We then present a case study using real-world data from a cohort of elderly surgical patients. The results showcase the utility of our approach in uncovering clinically relevant subtypes of complex disorders like POD, paving the way for more precise and personalized treatment strategies.
title Clustering of Disease Trajectories with Explainable Machine Learning: A Case Study on Postoperative Delirium Phenotypes
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03327