Learning from data to predict future symptoms of oncology patients
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Journal Article
Abstract
Effective symptom management is a critical component of cancer treatment. Computational tools that predict the course and severity of these symptoms have the potential to assist oncology clinicians to personalize the patient’s treatment regimen more efficiently and provide more aggressive and timely interventions. Three common and inter-related symptoms in cancer patients are depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance. In this paper, we elaborate on the efficiency of Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Non-linear Canonical Correlation Analysis by Neural Networks (n-CCA) to predict the severity of the aforementioned symptoms between two different time points during a cycle of chemotherapy (CTX). Our results demonstrate that these two methods produced equivalent results for all three symptoms. These types of predictive models can be used to identify high risk patients, educate patients about their symptom experience, and improve the timing of pre-emptive and personalized symptom management interventions.
Date Issued
2018-12-31
Date Acceptance
2018-11-24
Citation
PLoS One, 2018, 13 (12), pp.1-17
ISSN
1932-6203
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Start Page
1
End Page
17
Journal / Book Title
PLoS One
Volume
13
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Papachristou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
QUALITY-OF-LIFE
SLEEP DISTURBANCES
RADIATION-THERAPY
CROSS-VALIDATION
EVENING FATIGUE
TRAIT ANXIETY
ERROR RATE
SUBGROUPS
CLASSIFICATION
DEPRESSION
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e0208808
Date Publish Online
2018-12-31