Transfer Learning Improving Predictive Mortality Models for Patients in End-Stage Renal Disease

Deep learning is becoming a fundamental piece in the paradigm shift from evidence-based to data-based medicine. However, its learning capacity is rarely exploited when working with small data sets. Through transfer learning (TL), information from a source domain is transferred to a target one to enh...

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Autores: Macias Toro, Edwar Hernando|||0000-0001-5568-9237, Lopez Vicario, Jose|||0000-0002-3574-4697, Serrano, Javier|||0000-0003-1235-2145, Ibeas, Jose|||0000-0002-1292-7271, Morell, Antoni|||0000-0003-2249-8594
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:258444
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/258444
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/electronics11091447
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Transfer learning
Deep learning
Mortality prediction
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Sumario:Deep learning is becoming a fundamental piece in the paradigm shift from evidence-based to data-based medicine. However, its learning capacity is rarely exploited when working with small data sets. Through transfer learning (TL), information from a source domain is transferred to a target one to enhance a learning task in such domain. The proposed TL mechanisms are based on sample and feature space augmentation. Thus, deep autoencoders extract complex representations for the data in the TL approach. Their latent representations, the so-called codes, are handled to transfer information among domains. The transfer of samples is carried out by computing a latent space mapping matrix that links codes from both domains for later reconstruction. The feature space augmentation is based on the computation of the average of the most similar codes from one domain. Such an average augments the features in a target domain. The proposed framework is evaluated in the prediction of mortality in patients in end-stage renal disease, transferring information related to the mortality of patients with acute kidney injury from the massive database MIMIC-III. Compared to other TL mechanisms, the proposed approach improves 6-11% in previous mortality predictive models. The integration of TL approaches into learning tasks in pathologies with data volume issues could encourage the use of data-based medicine in a clinical setting.